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The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 21, 2012 5:51 am
by Mila
Hey, so like a lot of people I'm not really into the reverse harem thing, because I usually know who I like right away. That being said, this game's cast is AMAZING, and I like so many of the bachelors and bachelorettes. In order to decide, I obviously want to do all of the heart events and court them up until red heart. But I know that in this game, there is a consequence for breaking up with and dating many people. I'm sure it's already been addressed, but I can't find it in the main forum :(

Would anyone mind telling me what happens if you break up/get together with too many people? I'm thinking I want to date 3 of the girls and 5 of the guys...

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 8:07 am
by BizaareBazaar
I'm not sure..I do know that if you reject them you will lose some friendship but you can propose again, multiple times. I'm really sorry I don't know more XD

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 9:48 am
by Awkward Llama
I do know that if you go around showing the ring or blue feather to other candidates while dating you'll get some jealous dialogue.

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 11:57 am
by luph n joii
To be honest, I really dislike the court system in this game. Yes, I know that dating stage is cute, more realistic or whatever reason they give. But that will prevent me from getting to know everyone, which is one thing that I enjoy about HM. HM is no dating sim, but I feel like it's getting more and more to it judging by how many topics about bachelor/ette and marriage that flooded every section in the forum.

That being aside, you have to break up with your boy/girfriend if you want to court another guy/girl. But to break up the relationship, you have to lower their heart first which is really upsetting and annoying. Where's the option to break up without making your exs hate you?

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 5:45 pm
by cinnamon_yuki
luph n joii wrote:To be honest, I really dislike the court system in this game. Yes, I know that dating stage is cute, more realistic or whatever reason they give. But that will prevent me from getting to know everyone, which is one thing that I enjoy about HM. HM is no dating sim, but I feel like it's getting more and more to it judging by how many topics about bachelor/ette and marriage that flooded every section in the forum.

That being aside, you have to break up with your boy/girfriend if you want to court another guy/girl. But to break up the relationship, you have to lower their heart first which is really upsetting and annoying. Where's the option to break up without making your exs hate you?
If I remember correctly, you could continue to befriend the bachelor/bachelorette without becoming their boyfriend or girlfriend. I think that counts as getting to know them. I know I read it somewhere here in this forum.

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 10:30 pm
by Emily Elizabeth
If I remember correctly, you could continue to befriend the bachelor/bachelorette without becoming their boyfriend or girlfriend. I think that counts as getting to know them. I know I read it somewhere here in this forum.
mm true BUT once you hit green heart you cant see green or other event's with out the ring. That means you have to break up with your current GF/BF to go on to another

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 11:06 pm
by cinnamon_yuki
Emily Elizabeth wrote:
If I remember correctly, you could continue to befriend the bachelor/bachelorette without becoming their boyfriend or girlfriend. I think that counts as getting to know them. I know I read it somewhere here in this forum.
mm true BUT once you hit green heart you cant see green or other event's with out the ring. That means you have to break up with your current GF/BF to go on to another
I suppose that's a little drawback I guess. Well, I suppose it will bother some people but for me, the restriction is a good feature to include. I don't have to feel guilty when I raise their hearts up.

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 11:15 pm
by Magical Garden
Well I just have force myself into choosing one guy and try my best to get myself away from all this annoying « Puppy Doodoo » you have to go through.

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 22, 2012 11:38 pm
by Blue Bell
So if you're dating you don't get heart events with other bachelors, but will you still get heart dialog? Or do they just revert to friendship mode unless you break up?

I have the feeling that I'll know who I want to go with by the time I have everyone at a green heart, but I will miss the dialog. I hope we'll have another good Heart Line topic after release so I can read everything :P

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 23, 2012 7:23 am
by Ragnawind
Blue Bell wrote:So if you're dating you don't get heart events with other bachelors, but will you still get heart dialog? Or do they just revert to friendship mode unless you break up?

I have the feeling that I'll know who I want to go with by the time I have everyone at a green heart, but I will miss the dialog. I hope we'll have another good Heart Line topic after release so I can read everything :P
As far as I can gather, you only get friendship dialog as you increase their FP if you aren't dating them, but start getting the "heart" dialog after you give the ring.

Anyway, I'm sure there will be transcriptions of events and such, like there seems to be for TToTT

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 23, 2012 3:07 pm
by severely
It does seem like one of the changes that some people will hate and others will love. I've seen people complaining before that you can't have a platonic relationship with a bachelor(ette) in HM until after you get married to someone else. I suppose this system allows for that now.

I like being able to woo everyone, though, and then making my final marriage choice only once I've seen everything. Especially in games like ANB where I'm not completely sold on one person right from the get-go.

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 23, 2012 6:42 pm
by Fuji
While I usually woo all the bachelor/ettes at some point or another, I like this little feature they put together in ANB. It'll be really cute to be boyfriend/girlfriend with someone, still be able to befriend the others without feeling like you're leading them on, and be all adorable and monogamous with your boy/girlfriend. xD

I generally like to date everyone...but this is rather exciting C:

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 23, 2012 7:32 pm
by PrincessofDusk
*Rant Start*
=_= AM I THE ONLY PERSON ON THIS FORUM WHO CHOOSES ONE PERSON AND IS FAITHFUL TO THEM?!

The closest I ever came to wooing multiple guys at the same time was when I raised their heart level just by talking to them daily. Yes, I have wooed one guy then dropped him when another bachelor shows up (and this only happened in one game for pity's sake), but I didn't woo multiple guys at the same time.

All of ya'll should be ashamed of yourselves. Think of all the poor pixelated hearts you've broken! ):<
*Rant Over*
On-topic: I do like the new dating system. It's a definite change from the run-of-the-mill Harvest Moon system.

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 23, 2012 7:38 pm
by Lon Lon
PrincessofDusk wrote:
*Rant Start*
=_= AM I THE ONLY PERSON ON THIS FORUM WHO CHOOSES ONE PERSON AND IS FAITHFUL TO THEM?!

The closest I ever came to wooing multiple guys at the same time was when I raised their heart level just by talking to them daily. Yes, I have wooed one guy then dropped him when another bachelor shows up (and this only happened in one game for pity's sake), but I didn't woo multiple guys at the same time.

All of ya'll should be ashamed of yourselves. Think of all the poor pixelated hearts you've broken! ):<
*Rant Over*
On-topic: I do like the new dating system. It's a definite change from the run-of-the-mill Harvest Moon system.
By raising their heart levels and seeing their love events you get to know the characters a bit more. Some people get stuck between marriage candidates so they use these to determine who they'll marry.

I don't know how I feel about it. It's cute I guess but I like seeing but I do like seeing everyone's events and dialogue change.

Re: The consequences of dating many people?

Posted: Sep 23, 2012 8:25 pm
by Blue Rose
Lon Lon wrote:
PrincessofDusk wrote:
*Rant Start*
=_= AM I THE ONLY PERSON ON THIS FORUM WHO CHOOSES ONE PERSON AND IS FAITHFUL TO THEM?!

The closest I ever came to wooing multiple guys at the same time was when I raised their heart level just by talking to them daily. Yes, I have wooed one guy then dropped him when another bachelor shows up (and this only happened in one game for pity's sake), but I didn't woo multiple guys at the same time.

All of ya'll should be ashamed of yourselves. Think of all the poor pixelated hearts you've broken! ):<
*Rant Over*
On-topic: I do like the new dating system. It's a definite change from the run-of-the-mill Harvest Moon system.
By raising their heart levels and seeing their love events you get to know the characters a bit more. Some people get stuck between marriage candidates so they use these to determine who they'll marry.

I don't know how I feel about it. It's cute I guess but I like seeing but I do like seeing everyone's events and dialogue change.
Well, technically, you CAN see all their events and such, it just takes time and you break a lot of hearts.

Honestly, I like the new system. It allows more deep, personal, meaningful relationships (however deep you can get with pixels). You can always just continue befriending that person, and later just switch over and see that person's events when you are done with the previous candidate. You may not get to see ~all~ of the dialogue, but now we have a more of a motivation for the fans to ban together and come up with a list of dialogue for everyone to read.

(Although really, you can also get most of the event information through Fogu. It's not word for word, but it's pretty thorough.)