[RFE] GM edit Familial relationships

[KnightCDL]

Enhancement Type *

New Feature

Brief Description of Enhancement *

It would be nice to GM family relations in MekHQ to create family run units from the start, or bring in long lost siblings, uncles, aunts, etc.

Use Cases or Rationale

Family Units are a common theme in Battletech.

Attach Files

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MekHQ Suite Version *

.04

Final Verification

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[IllianiCBT]

I might be able to wrangle something here. The limiter is that we only define parents - insofar as I remember. Everything else is calculated on the fly. So you'd need to pick a parent, assign all 'children' to that parent, at which point the genealogy would update.

I know folks would love to have campaigns where some characters are siblings, that might require a bit more work...

[psikomonkie]

I might be able to wrangle something here. The limiter is that we only define parents - insofar as I remember. Everything else is calculated on the fly. So you'd need to pick a parent, assign all 'children' to that parent, at which point the genealogy would update.

I know folks would love to have campaigns where some characters are siblings, that might require a bit more work...

Hey Illiani, I suggested Knight put the issue in - That was my idea for implementing this too. Worst case the player has to create a dummy "parent" in order to link the characters. If they're already using GM mode, they can add a character with a status of... Anything not active, and that should work, once we add the ability to GM define a parent/child.

[IllianiCBT]

So the simulated historic relationships system adds the ability for genealogical links to be created for non-existent people. I'm wondering if that could be leveraged here.