Rival Romances

Updates/Bug Fixes

I have added an optional version of the main file which works with Silraine's Rival Romances Framework instead of my own. By the next update, I hope to move away from my own framework fully, as their framework does everything mine does and much more. Please note that, while I have checked to make sure it works, I have not tested this patch as extensively as I've tested my own framework; please let me know if there's any issue!

1. 2: Fixed where the 1. 1 fix was giving an error on opening the game.

1. 1: Third cutscene for both couples will no longer trigger when it isn't supposed to.

Description

This is a mod that provides the game with "Rival Romances", a concept from the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons series that I wanted to see in Fields of Mistria. If you don't romance them yourself, at certain points during Year 2, the March/Ryis and Celine/Reina pairings will begin dating, getting engaged, moving in together, etc., permanently locking you out from romancing them.

This mod also comes in optional modular form, downloading only one couple per folder. Certain features (namely, sitting together at the Shooting Star festival) are not included in the modular versions. These are intended to be compatible with each other and any future rival romance mods using the same framework that may pop up.

You will need to download both the "framework" folder AND the relevant mod folder(s). The framework is intended to be reused by other rival romance-type mods, and you are free to use it in your own, SO LONG AS you 1) do not use AI in the making of the mod you're using the framework with, and 2) do not release the framework itself as part of your own mod, instead linking to this mod for users to download. The files in the framework are fairly intuitive, but I've commented out what each file does so that it is hopefully easy to understand for future mod creators. Even if you have multiple mods that use the framework, you only need to download the framework folder a single time.

No AI was used in the making of this mod in any way.

This section has minor spoilers for what's in the mod. If you'd like to be surprised by the progression of the relationship, you should skip to "Future Updates". Just know that the content for the mod starts in Summer, Year 2.

Each pair has three cutscenes - one in year two, one in year three, and one which depends on how fast you complete the second (minimum time second half of year three) - the second of which is spurred by certain requirements (a quest which requires you to be best friends with both members of the couple and have a spouse yourself). There is also dialogue both from the parties involved and the people around them acknowledging their relationship (around 25-30-ish lines per couple across all three+ years), and (in the main mod) the couples will sit together during the Shooting Star festival. Map changes are made as the relationships become more serious - namely, a house is added to the Eastern Road for March/Ryis, and Celine/Reina each have changes made to their rooms. If any of these features aren't reflected in your game, please let me know ASAP.

Please note that, while in-story some characters move in together, schedules were not adapted to reflect this, and the map additions are not interactable in any way. This is due to current limitations in map editing and me already wearing a lot of hats to put this mod together. We're all just going to have to play pretend a little when it comes to where these characters wake up and go to bed for now!

Future Features

This mod is planned to have at least three updates, of varying difficulty to implement, each of which will take considerable time and will not necessarily release in this order:

• []Expanding the number of relationships in the mod (modularly and in the main file)[/]

  []Couples get married[/]

  []Couples have (a) child(ren)?[/]

There are also assorted minor fixes that were not pressing enough to delay mod publishing, but which I'd like to get to eventually.

Installation Instructions

This mod should be installed with MOMI. Create a "mods" folder in your Fields of Mistria folder if you don't already have one. Unzip the framework and the main mod into the mods folder. Then, download the MOMI executable and run it. It should give you an option to install the mod.

In order for the mod to work, you will need MOMI version 0. 16. 1 (