Marriage System

Okay so just a crazy idea which I got from watching SAO, why not have a marriage system where two characters can get married and then their inventories/bank would be combined and they would be able to share the items in their new shared inventory/bank. In other words they would basically have a bank/inventory twice the size of a normal, which would contain the belongings of both members of the marriage (meaning it would have both of the users pets, armour, weapons and magical items.)

it would also be able to add a new achievement to the achievements list relating to the marriage system:

-Marriage Achievement: your characters gets married to another users character.

so let me know what you guys think and drop any suggestions for it below.  :) 

There is ways of lending equipment, I've seen it done...

But I don't know about merging banks... but if you allowed free sharing, perhaps.

But then you gotta make sure you don't both have the same weapon in two separate threads at the same time.

I like the idea! It'd be a fun thing for people who ship their characters together to be able to marry one another IC plus the item sharing part isn't half bad either :D

I don't see why but I don't see why not. So whatever.

Huh... Interesting... You really don't have to share a bank. I mean, just post the same item on the two bank accounts and there you. That way threads and jobs don't get mixed up. But other than that, why not?

Ways of abuse: None that I can see
Predicted effect on RP: 9001% increase in shipping

I don't think banks need to be combined though, like other people have said, you can just put the other person's items into your bank.

This would really be interesting to see and i must say, i would really like this. Though the merging of banks seems a little unnecessary to me, as people can share weapons and things still. Though the only real problem is the one that Kaseki pointed out ,that really isn't a problem, but you would need to make sure that the chars don't use the same things in one thread or it wouldn't make sense at all. Maybe just instead of merging, married couples are given the ability to use items, weapons, armors and pets of their partner. 

Though otherwise, i love the marriage system. Anything that may increase shipping is awesome. So yeah, i can see the usefulness in this.

Indiana Jones wrote:This would really be interesting to see and i must say, i would really like this. Though the merging of banks seems a little unnecessary to me, as people can share weapons and things still. Though the only real problem is the one that Kaseki pointed out ,that really isn't a problem, but you would need to make sure that the chars don't use the same things in one thread or it wouldn't make sense at all. Maybe just instead of merging, married couples are given the ability to use items, weapons, armors and pets of their partner. 

Though otherwise, i love the marriage system. Anything that may increase shipping is awesome. So yeah, i can see the usefulness in this.

Shipping God Has spoken.

So you would have access to two pets while our rules clearly state that every player can only have one pet. And you will have access to a new number of weapons that may be more powerful then you can actually use or even have.

I honestly don't see we need a shared bank system to get characters married. If they want to they can so IC no problem with that, we can even list married characters or make a spouse system like an npc child. But a shared account may conflict with our rules

I like this idea a lot but as almost everyone else said: Merging banks can't really happan without breaking the rules.

Idk maybe like an exp boost when doing a job hen said couples do jobs... Or like more jewels per job... Something like that

Lance Knighthunter wrote:Idk maybe like an exp boost when doing a job hen said couples do jobs... Or like more jewels per job... Something like that

More exp sounds nice. An exp boost higher than doing jobs with teammates. Also, I thought of having some prerequisites before being able to get married. First, they should be a couple for atleast 6 months, and has been proving their devotion to each other. Next, marriage should cost a lot. xD Perhaps, it could cost atleast 250,000 to get married, and also, the very special ring item which is given to couples. Once they are together in an area, the rings can provide additional Magic Power and increases Magic Damage in a slight amount. Leaving the range may cause the effect to disappear. That's what I have thought of so far.

I dont see why a system is necessary since the only thing it would offer would break the rules

Maybe something like what Lance said

I was going to do it regardless of a system. The only abuse I can see is that two PCs get married just for the rewards or w/e gets(or doesnt) get added if a system is put in place.

I also disagree with Blanc, 6 months is ridiculous and not everyone has the money OOC to get married IC (talking mostly about myself right now) An exp boost is also a tad silly for doing jobs with the spouse. I honestly think this is kinda unnecessary. Just get married IC and go from there, you shouldn't need/want extra rewards and perks for doing so, as that kinda makes it less meaningful imo :/

Well as Yoshino said that they would have to spend some time together and show their devotion IC before they get married so they may do it for the rewards but they would have to work for the rewards.

And people that dont do it for the rewards should get punished? 6 months is a LONG ass time for two people to be consistently active. It also pretty much stagnates character development as the whole thing will last 6 months of REAL time, not giving much room for other things. It's why Im saying this is all unnecessary. Just talk to the other person and arrange it, more and more rewards about just RPing is getting a little silly.

Rewards for getting married..? So basically, rewards for having an IC happenstance through development? So basically, every other thing in the whole rp world?

Make it an achievement - YES, that would be cool. Achievements are always shiny to have.

Give it shared accounts, rewards for going on missions together - So not in for that. Totally unnecessary. That's what we have the team bonus for.

Make it cost money - Sorry Blanc, but that's a really really bad idea. Nope, nopidy nope. It basically denies people who rp'd for 1 month but have 10+ threads the possibility of making it happen. It denies people who don't want to spend money for an IC happenstance the possiblity. Giving exp wedding rings? You could have that for so money different things. Just additional exp rewards n stuff. Not up for that either, in any way.

Leave IC opportunities alone with money. They shouldn't cost money, they just shouldn't. Getting married is a story option for your own character development. Not something the site should regulate. In the end, we're gonna have a dozen married couples JUST for rewards. Totally random and arbitrary and in general... useless. Ranking up works just fine. Freeform works just fine. This would just be... as Zenny said: Unnecessary.

EDIT: It denies people the possibility to START OUT with a married couple because of some random rping rules. Not cool, not in my book. And 6 months just for an IC HAPPENSTANCE is too much. If you want to make something, you can make it happen. That's freeforming. This is just invasive of the freedom we are given here. Sorry, but I'm not just NOT supporting it, I'm demonstrating against it and will make a rally if this should get put into place.

Lyserg wrote:Make it an achievement - YES, that would be cool. Achievements are always shiny to have.

this is possible the only thing we can do for marriage, because what everyone else said is something that can be abused or is breaking a rule or two. If people want to get married IC then they can and they don't need a system for it that has once again exp boost rewards.

After all marrying to an other player should be more about rp quality then the rewards you can get from it.

True... I can see where you guys are standing at on this and I don't really think rewards are necisarry after all... I say give it an acheivement and that's about it.

I agree with Lance and Fred.

I think it is a cute idea however I think there should be some rules before you can become married for example; be friends online for more than a certain amount of days to reduce random marriage requests. Also there should be a forum dedicated to finding your partner.

Obel Winthrop wrote:Also there should be a forum dedicated to finding your partner.

So you mean sort of like an eHarmony forum and whatnot? :P

Yes sort of.

And, what if 2 people want to start there characters married? They have to wait? I think you should just let the players decide when.

Hmm, I don't think John would ever get married, but I do support this idea as I'll probably get an alt that might be up for marriage.