Community Suggestion: Relationship Parent Options Expanded
Relationship Parent Options Expanded
Feature Upgrade · Family trees · Created by Joshy Shadow
declined
relationship -families -family -parents adopting platonic
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
The relationship manager only allows for 2 biological parents plus 2 more adopted parents. While this is already good, it leaves out the option of way bigger families for example that are in a polyamorous relationship with each other.
The Familial Type only allows for the two broad options of Spousal and Sibling, but nothing of platonic kind. I would like to see that option there as well.
Using this to also make a family tree of deities that created specieses makes it harder when more than just one deity had a hand in a species.
For example one deity created all species that can fly, then having them as a single "parent" is no issue, but if another deity or more worked on them as well, then they are shown to have a relationship with that other deity that might be totally different from what they have, as this can't distinguish between a relationship of creators and a realtionship of deities to each other.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
Instead of having Parent 1, Parent 2, Adoptive Parent 1 and Adoptive Parent 2, I think a better solution could be an option where you can add any given amount of people and define them as Parents. For some structures it doesn't matter if they are biological or adopted, for other structures they might all be the adoptive parents because the children's biological family is dead and has been adopted.
I suggest the following Familial Types as a main option to be choosen from, together with 2 sub-options, I advise for more here, for a more detailed option:
• Spousal: Spouse, Polygamy, Option to write
• Sibling: Sister, Brother, Option to write
• Platonic: Soulmate, Kinship, Option to write
• Romantic: Monogamic, Option to write
• Work: Inventor, Founder, Creator, Option to write
• FSK 18 Sexual: One Night Stand, Friends with Benefit, Option to write
I'd suggest a further looking into with the Wikipedia pages on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamyand more specifically on the right side Types of Relationships.
The more options we have in this aspect the more details we can give into a relationship. This can also make a complicated relationship of for example, an abusive, codependent relationship more easily to be tracked with different character rather than the simple current options we have.
What are other uses for this feature request?
This could be used for inventions and people that together created something having them as the Inventor/Founder of something when it was more than one person or different groups. Same would go for the creation of species if something invented them, such as how Owlbears in D&D are typically meant to be an experiment from a wizard.
Follow up
As I've seen, also thanks to someone here giving me an actual link, there has been a few more that were proposed in the past. The team is already aware of this so if you want to keep your coins then please do so for new topics to be proposed. Also I've noticed that I don't nearly think wide enough to actually search efficiently through this and wanna apologize to the team for this doubling up posting taking time from you should you decide to answer on this.
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! We totally get that these types of family exist, both in the real world and in your fictional ones, and that our family trees make it difficult to represent them. However, this would add massive complexity to the system that we can't implement. That said, a future update will implement character relationship webs, which might help with this usecase.
Current score
72/300 Votes · +15306 points
Votes Cast
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by kernelpxnic
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by Coloratuba
on 2024-03-19 18:23 -
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by LiaFelis
on 2024-03-19 09:38 -
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by ohheyrene
on 2024-03-19 03:27 -
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by Ebsfive
on 2024-03-18 15:31 -
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by A. Tompson
on 2024-03-17 13:31 -
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by sovereignnh
on 2024-03-17 00:15 -
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by vitusyin
on 2024-03-16 18:26 -
+300
by Arlatius
on 2024-03-15 23:02 -
+100
by zomeloon
on 2024-03-15 20:01 -
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by Chrysochus
on 2024-03-15 07:42 -
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by gcjones216
on 2024-03-14 00:10 -
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by corviq
on 2024-03-13 23:35 -
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by JackLink916
on 2024-03-13 10:12 -
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by lordofcrebain
on 2024-03-13 07:15 -
+300
by AvalonArcana
on 2024-03-12 21:04 -
+300
by Sir Lel
on 2024-03-11 19:24 -
+300
by WorldbuildingJet
on 2024-03-10 05:14 -
+300
by DestinyKalpso
on 2024-03-09 19:14 -
+300
by ZenithFireHaert
on 2024-03-09 07:22 -
+100
by Helen-Marie
on 2024-03-09 06:31 -
+300
by NiwdeMaster
on 2024-03-09 00:22 -
+300
by Gunner1994
on 2024-03-08 13:22 -
+300
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by A Fluffy Devil
on 2024-03-07 16:22 -
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by HazuTeuthis
on 2024-03-07 09:38 -
+300
by RJSaunders
on 2024-03-06 19:56 -
+1
by pinkchaosstories
on 2024-03-06 19:51 -
+1
by EmilyRose28
on 2024-03-06 18:29 -
+300
by mikawa
on 2024-03-06 04:52 -
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by DesNordlund
on 2024-03-05 09:31I promote anything that opens up flexible settings of relationships. Not only do humans have more flexiblity - there are real countries where you can have more than one husband/wife and should have that option in a fantasy setting too - there are also SciFi situations. Who knows which kinds of bonds are needed to produce a baby alian?
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by BetweenTime
on 2024-03-05 04:04 -
+100
by spookyskellyton
on 2024-03-04 20:33 -
+1
by SebGreg732
on 2024-03-03 00:45 -
+300
by imly2k
on 2024-03-02 12:47 -
+300
by Amancham
on 2024-03-01 11:35 -
+100
by tjtrewin
on 2024-03-01 11:05 -
+300
by ASASCED
on 2024-03-01 06:22 -
+300
by Writing Bishop
on 2024-02-29 20:26 -
+1
by Rilameth
on 2024-02-29 16:44I'd just like an option to have three biological parents, as one of my species is capable of having two biological fathers in addition to one biological mother (inspired because cat reproduction can actually do this irl).
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by A Wild Skeleton
on 2024-02-29 00:17 -
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by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-02-27 10:21This has been suggested and accepted already, even though the how has not been announced yet. Please check previous suggestions before essentially "wasting" your coins. For exmple: https://www.worldanvil.com/community/voting/suggestion/3a274669-f371-43c5-bdf8-88a56c1223bf/view
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by UFOlobster
on 2024-02-27 10:09 -
+300
by restlessGalaxy
on 2024-02-27 06:02 -
+300
by ourg0dsal
on 2024-02-27 05:43 -
+300
by amelianite
on 2024-02-27 04:40 -
+300
by Nezera
on 2024-02-26 19:25 -
+100
by Zheika
on 2024-02-26 14:08 -
+100
by cow2face
on 2024-02-26 12:57 -
+300
by Telarn
on 2024-02-26 10:36 -
+100
by Adcheryl
on 2024-02-26 10:03 -
+100
by Willow Redwood
on 2024-02-25 23:39 -
+300
by Squiggletag
on 2024-02-25 21:42 -
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by RandomD&DNerd
on 2024-02-25 21:24 -
+300
by MKHETH II
on 2024-02-25 20:46 -
+100
by ss2020
on 2024-02-25 20:19 -
+300
by A Revolutionary Dragon
on 2024-02-25 16:20 -
-300
by A Lusty Mlem
on 2024-02-25 15:41 -
+100
by kaixabu
on 2024-02-25 15:40Yeah, basically the Rel. was not usable and I had to create an outside version, and hide relationship panel. This would be amazing.
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by Kittymonster
on 2024-02-25 12:45 -
+300
by A Filthy Devil
on 2024-02-25 09:19 -
+300
by Pete Nelson
on 2024-02-25 08:46 -
+300
by incedio7
on 2024-02-25 04:28 -
+300
by HunterChristmas1247
on 2024-02-25 03:15 -
+300
by devinsxdesigns
on 2024-02-25 02:22I have many species/races with very complicated biological and social families. I would love to see the auto-linking familial types (and family trees?) expand this way!
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+300
by Ratha
on 2024-02-25 00:53 -
+100
by hoku
on 2024-02-24 22:52 -
+300
by A Roaring Kobold
on 2024-02-24 21:34 -
+100
by DramaticDragons
on 2024-02-24 20:32 -
+300
by Joshy Shadow
on 2024-02-24 20:09
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