Ties

Ties gives survivors real relationships: each holds an opinion of the other, built from remembered reasons, and they talk, argue, pass on news and fall in love.

Relationships: each person has their own opinion of the other, built from reasons that fade on their own clocks, and labelled friend, close friend, rival or enemy. Family and partner bonds never fade. Conversations: survivors talk in their free time and while they work, eat and rest, in short exchanges shown over their heads. They comfort the grieving, make up after a fight and talk a friend round. News of deaths, raids, weddings and fights spreads by word of mouth. Personality and views: temperament and views on mercy, the machines and the group shape who gets on, and decisions at the base are judged by those views. Romance and family: couples, marriages, jealousy and break-ups; relatives who share a last name and long-lost family turning up. Fist fights: an argument with a rival can come to blows. Punches bruise but never kill, and once a fight starts it is out of your hands until it ends. A Social panel shows everyone's relationships, the map of friendships and feuds, and each survivor's state of mind. Requires the AshForge Mod Loader, installed by the AshForge Hub.