NPC life

[beza1e1]

I think the NPC should be a little bit more active. Now they just stand on their place and wait for players.

At least i think a fixed path is possible.

Jeyarp Grotemey currently stands just before the library with his wife. They want to look up new method, because he is a leathersmith (or at least she wants ). The devs could give them paths, like
in the night at home asleep, then wake up and stand in the office, in the evening visit the library then take a little nap at the tavern then go asleep again.

This would make the city more realistic.
The best of course would be to give them values for hunger etc and if it exceeds certain limits they go for a lunch to te tavern...

[Axioma]

This values thing for hunger and so, hasn\'t that been used in black and white ? at least i know they were going to, but i never got to play the thing (shame on me). It would be realistic yes, although i think for now the simple path thing might do.

[Fanomatic2000]

\"dead\" NPCs was a very disturbing thing in Morrowind. The simply just stood there day and night doing nothing. Perhaps some of them walked around a bit, but that was all (many of them said exactly the same thing because the developers were too lazy to program them all).
The legend of Zelda: Majoras mask, had one of the most intelligent system I\'ve ever seen. The NPCs did different things all the time.
They slept, worked, walked to specific places, said different things on different times etc.
I know that it\'s the players and not the NPCs that creates the athmosphere but I don\'t want our computerized friends to just stand there gazing into mid-air.

BTW. Morrowind sucks, it really does.  

[hook]

i\'m 100% behind that idea
NPCs with lives as in ultima would be GREAT!!! ...yea, i still think that in ultima NPCs were the most life-like ...no RPG could top that until now ...sorry

[Axioma]

Legend of Zelda: my god; what a reference: i totally looooove zelda: no wonder the npc\'s where good in that game: zelda rocks !

So you think we should immediately go for values in npc\'s then ? that would make it more real, as long as an npc doens\'t get hungry in the middle of the night and starts walking towards a pub in his pyamas...

[PartyBoy]

zelda can suck my d*** i hate zelda its soooooo boring
and the new one for the cube looks crap and cartoony

[bbum]

the new zelda is amazing, and i guarente you it gets game of the year by like every magazine.

dont be so ignorant...

[beza1e1]

I think the NPCs are planned as very active, if you look at the about page

many non-player-characters controlled by the server that will bring to life our world even without players connected!

[Ravenmaster]

Hmm.... Although NPCs moving around would be nice, it would also cause unnecesary lag.  In Project Entropia they added a bunch of NPCs just for show to walk around in the big cities, but they don\'t really add to the atmosphere, just to the lag, and they get in the way, blocking doorways and walking into walls and the like.  Having NPCs who stand in one place all the time doesn\'t bother me that much.