Moving NPCs

[XF25]

why not have moving npcs? well i know there are a bunch of ups and downs to it but this is just an idea. Like in RL, guards would not stay put, they would patrol around. Just make them patrol only a small radius so it will look more real life. People in cities would have chats but not for 24/7, especially with the same person, so why not have them talk with other npcs close by. The up of this idea is that to bring more realism but the down is probably no one will like the idea, newbies will have a hard time-even us, or the client might take more RAM then it did before. I'm not sure if the PS code can do this but its just an idea.

[weltall]

harnquist does this already... at least when he decides to not sleep for days because the npcclient crashed while he walked at home

[XF25]

im talking about visible movements besides the once in a while disappearance of Harnquist. Harnquist could be seen hammering some metal and moving around to shape the metal to a sword or something

[weltall]

if you check on him when his movement are enabled you actually see him walking home. Those things are implemented just need a lot of work to be used

[khoridor]

To see them work, as in Harnquist hammering something, has a drawback, though. He is for example supposed to stop hammering when trading with you... and with anybody else. So it depends if you only mean to see NPCs more lively, or to see them act (which is really hard work). In the first case, you'd be just asking for NPC emotes.

[zoran]

Those things are implemented just need a lot of work to be used

Does this mean that you need more people to devise and script schedules? Or that the whole feature still needs some testing and finishing on a code level?

[weltall]

both

[steuben]

soon grasshopper, soon...

and then my fun will begin.