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Got no problem with them adding a bit of romance or flirting dialogue to the companions but don't really see much point adding a marriage option.

They gonna add a polygamy option? so you can marry every companion that gets released, or are they going to make it so each character can only marry one companion? and use that as an excuse to add divorce tokens to the crown store.

No to existing NPCs, because it would mess up the quests and lore, but yes to companions, they could add the option to start a second quest line when achieving maximum rapport, that eventually leads to a romantic outcome, or ring of Mara ceremony, etc., but it should be optional and not affect any other companion features.

Jaimeh wrote: »

No to existing NPCs, because it would mess up the quests and lore, but yes to companions, they could add the option to start a second quest line when achieving maximum rapport, that eventually leads to a romantic outcome, or ring of Mara ceremony, etc., but it should be optional and not affect any other companion features.

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ADarklore wrote: »

Being able to marry some random NPC would not work, they would have to add in a completely new voice dialogue for them. However, Companions we were already told they were exploring adding a 'romance' option when they were first released... however, they have to BALANCE the gender release of the Companions to make it even possible at this point; THREE females and only ONE male doesn't make for a very happy player base!!

Interesting though, the number of people who come out against it, yet in Skyrim 'marriage' was a major feature that a huge number of players appreciated.

Maybe it's because so far the options we have in companions is bleh. Who would want to marry these particular companions? Unattractive, nagging, and irritating. Oh wait, spouses can be nagging and irritating, I guess they got that down realistically.

I'd be interested in romanceable companions, but at the moment they're disappointingly shallow. Not that Farkas et al in Skyrim were so deep and fascinating, but I would like to see them get more personality. Give them more dialogue, let us have conversations with them, let them respond more intelligently to places and things, let them comment on our gender and class and skill lines and quests completed. Bastian has a whole three sentences he can respond to me with - that doesn't really sell him as romance material, you know?

There are some NPCs I find interesting (Revus Demnevanni comes to mind) but I can see romancing NPCs being problematic as typically one copy of them exists in the world and it would get weird quickly as thousands of players romance the same character. They'd have to be turned into a companion or a houseguest for it to work and that would be a whole other complication.

I don't think it would make sense for most NPCs, they don't have enough dialogue/interaction and for story purposes they need to be free to do their own thing.

It could work with companions but I agree with the people who said we need more interactions with them first, it would be very jarring to go from the limited options we have now to being told you are a couple.

I think we'd also need more companions and especially more male companions. Half my characters are female and it would be very weird for them all to be married to the same guy, especially since I don't think most of them would have any interest in him.

Finally if it does happen I hope it's a purely optional system. I like the idea in theory but I've definitely got some characters who wouldn't be interested in a relationship at all and it would be annoying to be stuck between missing out on some systems when playing them or forcing them through an RP choice that makes no sense.

I'm indifferent. I probably wouldn't use the feature, but I wouldn't mind it being there.

Any bonus for debuff for getting married?

Improved healing? More resistant to fear?

If your companion in injured or killed - any hardship?

More quests? Valentines Day? Get them a great gift or lose a level?
Better bonus for using the Lover Mundus stone?

What about polygamy?

Hmmm...let's NOT do this...

Tanks,

Z

Im married in RL, thats alteady more than I can handle. Don't need this also in my virtual life...

ADarklore wrote: »

Being able to marry some random NPC would not work, they would have to add in a completely new voice dialogue for them. However, Companions we were already told they were exploring adding a 'romance' option when they were first released... however, they have to BALANCE the gender release of the Companions to make it even possible at this point; THREE females and only ONE male doesn't make for a very happy player base!!

Interesting though, the number of people who come out against it, yet in Skyrim 'marriage' was a major feature that a huge number of players appreciated.

IMHO the way it was implemented in Skyrim was dumb and pointless. I’d MUCH rather have more dialogue options with characters that may or may not include flirtation and romance.

I don't like this idea. Next thing you know some kind of love triangle (or some other polygon) happens between two (or more) of my characters and a companion and they want me to somehow intervene. I don't need that kind of pressure.

And if I tell them no I know my characters and they are going to do it anyway. Best to not even give them the option.

I married several companions in Skyrim. Brought my new spouse to the basement of my house in Riften and murdered them, then went out to marry another one to do the same. I had a pile of, like, 5 bodies in that basement at one point. Really just to see if I could.

There’s a restraining order against me voting in this poll.