Karma: Personality modifiers towards relationships

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I wish the karma system was more about relationship status, Zois will automatically pick bad karma actions towards their loved ones and friends, this makes no sense.

I wish there was a system in place to allow Zois personality to go deeper and detect if they’re close to the Zoi (positive relationship bars) to pick “positive karma” actions and not just staying there, if their relationship status is strong on love for example, reinforce it with autonomous actions that reflect the relationship.

Karma is a good system to have, but not when it’s chosen randomly out of nowhere regardless of the Zois relationships. I want my Zois to fight people they don’t know or are negative towards them, not people that are close to them.

Actions should have priority:

  • If relationship status “Love” is higher or equal to “Friend” or “Business” relationship, “Love” related actions take priority over all others, as well as positive karma actions.
  • If relationship status “Friend” is higher than Love, then this takes priority.
  • If relationship status “Business” is higher than Friend or Love, then this takes priority and takes into consideration only business related actions.

If say, “Business” and “Friend” are at the same level, both actions can be automatically selected, considering positive karma actions too.

If say “Friendship” is negative, they will automatically reinforce that negative relationship, unless another Zoi’s actions make the bar go positive (group activities and such) or the player works towards fixing the relationship into a positive status.

Bad karma actions would only happen IF the Zoi relationship is negative or the active Zoi mood is a negative one. Say, they feel uncomfortable due to hunger, etc. OR if their traits are not compatible with the other Zoi, say your traits are workaholic and the other Zoi is lazy, then they’d obviously have disagreements (but not 100% of the time). There needs to be a balance and more considerations when choosing something like karma actions as they do have an effect with:

  • Messing with good standing relationships / families.
  • Messing with the Zoi’s crime status.
  • Messing with the Soul system.

Karma has too many negatives to just happen out of nowhere on repeat. Balancing is needed. I have noticed though that some Zoi emotional status will disable negative karma actions, this is a step towards that balance.

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I wish for the same thing. The team said the karma system will be brought back in some form, but we’ve always had this problem of random negative karma interactions between zois, regardless of the relationship status.

People have tried everything, including trying to write prompts for Smart Zoi that would prevent autonomous rude and negative karma interactions, but nothing works.

I long for the return of karma in some form. I want it to influence the playable zois and NPCs who live in houses in town. The others are random and it makes sense that the game wouldn’t track them or their relationships unless they have a relationship with the player’s zois, because they’re otherwise random, temporary crowd members.

Karma should influence how zois behave while they’re living. Zois with negative traits or in negative relationships should get urges to do negative karma interactions, and non-player zois would do them autonomously if the personality and/or relationship requirement is met.

Some zois would be motivated to do good karmic interactions regardless of relationships because of their own personalities, such as pacifist. These karmic actions may or may not play a role in the zoi’s afterlife or the proposed Fate Engine, but it would be very cool for good and negative karmic interactions to be driven by personalities and relationships rather than appearing to be random (as the do right now).

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