Plans and meet-ups
How a plan made in a text becomes a meet-up in the game.
When Zois agree in a text to do something together at a time and a place, Dreami keeps it as a plan, and at that time it happens in the game.
Making a plan#
- Ask in a chat: in DREAMDM with the person, or in HEARTDM for your Zoi's own plans. Someone has to ask, offer or name a meeting. Talking about what someone is doing isn't a plan.
- The time comes from the game's clock ("tomorrow at 5", "tonight", "at 11"). The place is one of the real places in your world: a named one, or the kind you said ("coffee" is a cafe, "drinks" a club, someone's home).
- A HEARTDM plan with a friend is first asked of that friend by text. Their answer settles it.
- Plans can change in the chat: a new time, another place or someone else asked along, up to five times. A plan can be called off by text, too.
- Dates are for High Teens and up, and never between family.
Where it shows#
A plan goes on the game's own schedule under the name the Zois gave it, on the Today card on the hub, and on the person's card under Plans.
When it's time#
- Anything with someone else in it runs as a game event, at the time and place they said.
- Where one of the game's own events fits, it is that event: a party, girls night, family dinner, dance party, gym group, study group or housewarming, as long as the game's own rules for it are met. A birthday party needs Lasting changes on.
- Anything else is a written event: a few steps with lines that fit the plan. Each Zoi has their own name over their head, and people nearby can react.
- If the AI that writes events fails or is too slow, the closest of the game's own events is used instead, at the same place and time.
- Your Zoi heads there on their own while Settings > Autonomy > Your Zoi goes to plans is on.
If someone doesn't come#
A missed plan lands by who was left waiting and what the plan meant. A calm friend shrugs off a missed hangout, a proud one feels it, and a missed date hurts. Nobody is blamed for a plan they couldn't make, like being asleep or at work.
Being asked out#
Friends may invite your Zoi to something, and Zois mention outings of their own. Invitations are spaced out: after one, no Zoi asks again for 8 game hours, and the same Zoi not for 2 game days.