Hey Runey, for the past couple of months I've actually had this issue. I'm in version 12.4 now and slowly progressing through the storylines but one bug has stayed with me since I believe 11.0? I try to *talk* to Ashley and it continuously says "increase friendship with Felicity and Emma" Well here's the thing, I have and I just completed their 12.4 story, also if it's any importance their level is 29 according to the log and affection is in the 60s. I would rather just have a technical answer at this point. What exactly do I need to change or is it just a soft lock bug that requires a new game. cause everything else works fine.
You can only get 1 friendship point per event, unless you're referring to chained events like Lin's boat trip to the island that have no breaks in between events. Friendship points are actually the counter for how many story events you've seen with a character.
But yes, events are divided by the announcement of friendship gains. :)
yeah ah speaking of backtracking, I only keep one constant save. And secondly why would the game allow me to progress through everything else including Emma and Felicitys stories if I somehow skipped a part of it impacting another ones story. That in itself doesn't make sense. Also I do every "event" and if I hadn't don't you think it would have popped up at some point literal months later?
By increasing friendship you skip events. The friendship number is the story event counter. You will be able to continue after adjusting the friendship value, but by doing so, you skip content. It would not pop up months later because you're already past that point.
To play that event in Ashley's storyline, Ashley's friendship must be 36 and F&E's friendship must be 25 because their stories connect here.
You can fix this by rolling back your cheats or load to a save before these friendship values. Or you can adjust them using console commands.