Relationship Dialogue System (04/10/2021) 2.6

RDS is an extensive dialogue mod that allows for nearly any kind of interaction and has NPCs dynamically react to the player reputation.

Relationship Dialogue System

Summary:

RDS adds the following features to the game:

1. The generic dialogue minigame: A dialogue for all NPC that allows for small-talk, flirting, bullying and more. [done]
2. Contextual approaches from NPC to invite the player to drink, shame them as a whore, try a pick-up line or blackmail the payer who has cheated on their spouse and more. [done]
3. A reputation system that tracks the players sexual partners and how often they are seen naked or have sex in public. NPCs will then change their behavior based on the players purity or whore-status. [done]
4. Form a relationship and even move in together with your partner. Have one sweetheart in every hold, but make sure they never hear from each other. Get love-letters when your partner is traveling. [done]

Description: (for more details please check the LE description)

I. Generic Dialouge: The generic dialogue “minigame” can either be started by talking to any NPC using the line “Hello, are you free to chat?” or by NPCs approaching. Then you can choose out of a total of 21 options to manipulate the conversation. The first 16 options can be used to move the dialogue into a specific direction. This should be very intuitive, and the NPC will react in a realistic fashion. When you are friendly or funny you will form a friendship. If you’re flirty you’ll go more into the direction of sex. If you’re mean the NPC will get angry or offended. The main purpose of this dialogue is to give you the ability to roleplay your character as you imagine it. For that, you can set your characters overarching behavior in the MCM. Secondary it serves to trigger sex animations, brawling, friends-with-benefits and relationships.
The course of the dialogue is achieved by changing the NPCs arousal and affection points. The latter is a value between -100 and 100 used by RDS to measure how much the NPC likes you and they will be more friendly or angry, accordingly. With each dialogue option used these values are adjusted.
Additionally the NPC will change these values depending on their personalities and traits. After the dialogue ends the NPCs vanilla relationship rank is adjusted according to its new affection value.
At the beginning of the dialogue you’ll receive a notification about whether the NPC is attracted to you based on their sexuality. After that, every other turn a notification will display how the NPC feels. You can use this to move the dialogue into the direction you want.

II. Reputation: The reputation system consist of a value of 100 points and is counted for each hold separately. The reputation is reduced for the following cases:

1. A NPC can see the player naked (doesn’t count for sex partners)
2. A NPC can see the player having sex (doesn’t count for the sex partners)
3. A NPC has no LOS, but is within 3 meters of the player having sex (means it can hear the player)
4. The number of different sex-partners (multiple times with one partner don’t stack)

One reduced the reputation doesn’t recover again. But the reputation loss is saved per NPC and therefor the only way to regain reputation is to kill of the witnesses. Additionally, sex witnesses can spot the player cheat on their spouse if the players partner lives in the same hold.
Based on the reputation and the players cheating-status other events and contextual approaches are triggered.

III. Contextual Approches: Next to the generic dialogue RDS features a multitude of contextual approaches. That means NPC approaches with specific intention which are triggered randomly but based on your reputation. The idea is to have the NPC react to your overall behavior and add new feeling of consequence to the world. Some approaches are simple flavor dialogue, while others are longer social interaction or hook-ups.

IV. Relationships: In RDS is it possible to form a relationship with any unmarried NPC once your affection rises above 60. This will turn the NPC into your partner and give them a special set of dialogue. You can have one partner in each hold and even have them parallel to your vanilla spouse. The vanilla spouses are not affected by RDS dialogues and events. You are also able to invite your partner to live with you in any of your owned vanilla homes. Your partner will then move to their new home and move around the surroundings. Depending on their personality they will litter around and demand you to clean up. Your partner also might invite friends over. Sometimes your partner leaves to go on their own adventures and might send you love-letters to remind you of them. But be careful if you decide to cheat on them. Some will forgive you; some will break up.

Installation:
Just use Vortex or Mod Organizer

Known Issues:

I've encountered a display bug during dialogues. It can happen that you can't scroll further down through the options, but still have the little arrow at the scroll bar, indicating that there're more options available. To fix this just use the arrow down or S key to have the list display all options.

Compatability:

RDS is compatable with Relationship Dialogue Overhaul. They sond similiar, but do very diffrent things.

RDS should be compatable with Special Edition, since it only contains dialogue and scripts. But untested so far.

Permission:

Please do not alter or re-upload this mod without my expressed permission.