During Disc 1, you will go to the Gold Saucer twice; during the second visit, an event will happen where a member of your party will come to your room and invite you out to some parts of the Gold Saucer.
Depending on choices made during specific events in the main game, the character that comes to see you will change.
Below are the mechanics and the choices that make changes. You can be visited by: Aeris, Tifa, Yuffie or Barret.
| Character | Starting Value |
|---|---|
| Aeris | 50 |
| Tifa | 30 |
| Yuffie | 10 |
| Barret | 0 |
There are choices to make in multiple places in the game. They are:
On the train from Sector 1 Reactor; while talking to Jessie:
In the 7th Heaven Bar (if Cloud has a flower):
Talking to Tifa behind the bar:
Tifa accuses Cloud of leaving her:
Tifa asks Cloud how he slept:
Dodging the train security system while travelling to Sector 4. (+5 Tifa, +5 Barret)
Sector 5 Reactor (Cloud hanging from the hole in the floor):

Sector 5 Church Barrel puzzle:
For information on the correct barrels to puch, see the
Walkthrough.
When Aeris asks if Tifa is Cloud's girlfriend:
At the Playground in Sector 6:
Don Corneo chooses Tifa:
Don Corneo chooses Aeris:
Don Corneo chooses Cloud. Reject his advances and he will ask if Cloud has a boyfriend:
Don Corneo triggers his trap and drops you into the sewers:
Marlene asks Cloud if he thinks Aeris is interested in him:
When you first meet Red XIII:
When the party splits up to escape Shinra HQ, if either Barret, Aeris, or Tifa are in the party they get +2
When captured, talk to Tifa who will ask if they can break out:
After talking to Tifa, go to the door. "I wonder how... is doing":
When escaping Midgar, whoever is in the party gets a +1 bonus
(No change for Red XIII)
Talk to Barret when leaving the Inn:
Talk to the woman who mentions that Mako is convenient (values only change if the characters are in the party):
Talk to the woman who mentions that the old ways were better (values only change if the characters are in the party):
You can find Yuffie after escaping from Midgar; upon meeting the "Mystery Ninja", you can talk to her and by responding to her correctly, you can recruit her to your party. Each correct answer also adds 2 points to her total for the dating mechanic and getting an answer wrong has no negative impact on the points.
You can use this encounter to "farm" points with Yuffie by answering her questions correctly up until the last one; this adds 8 points to her date score and you can encounter her as many times as you want until you get all of the questions correct. She does, however, steal 700 Gil from you each time you get a question wrong so it will get expensive early on.
The highest amount of affection points the player can get like this is +30, so the player can do it four times to benefit, but at the cost of 2,100 Gil.
After this point, no further alterations will be made to the date value and when you return to the Gold Saucer, whoever has the highest value will knock on Cloud's door and invite him out into the park for the night.
After this event, another part that is affected by the values is the conversation under the Highwind between Tifa and Cloud after Cloud tells everyone to go off and find their reason to fight. As they are waiting, Tifa and Cloud will talk and the conversation and implications will change based on Tifa's score.
