Fat Lazy NPC

Mashille · February 2016

Many NPC's in cities and towns throughout Tamriel stand in the same place repeating the same line of dialogue to you or a fellow fat lazy NPC.

Then they stand for a while.

Then they take some time to stand still.

Then they say that sentence again.

Then however they decide to stand still for a bit.

Later in the day they stand doing nothing.

In the middle of the night they choose to stand still for a bit.

They also say that line of dialogue again.

Then they finally figure that they should go back to standing doing nothing.

Some NPC's really need to have more paths to walk along or more NPC's to interact with. OR a job to do such as going into the market then going to see an NPC. Because I have seen so many people that stand and don't move at all in their entire life, or a pair of people that repeat the same line of dialogue over and over and over and over and over, you get the idea.

It can really pull you out the world and remind you 'This is all just put there'. I really think the game could benefit from adding more paths and variation for NPC lives and movements.

Thoughts?

Ra'Shtar · February 2016

That would be awesome, but being realistic that would cause so much strain on the server that we would get even more lagg than we have now, i would love tough if the kill off those NPCs in Elden Root near the wayshrine is SO annoying.

WalkingLegacy · February 2016

I agree a more lively world is always better for immersion and RPGs but sounds like too much for this team to handle.

Mashille · February 2016

@WalkingLegacy

I think through their eyes this is telling them to nerf Stamina Sorcerers.

Tan9oSuccka · February 2016

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

I agree a more lively world is always better for immersion and RPGs but sounds like too much for this team to handle.

Hey Fancy man! Fall on any swords lately?

Beliiiieeeevee what you like!

So what! Those things are everywhere....like rats!

Shogunami · February 2016

Tan9oSuccka wrote: »

Beliiiieeeevee what you like!

This.

Nestor · February 2016

Guards patrol, more so than they did before the Justice system came out. In fact, I think they even added guards to what we already had.

So, simple NPC pathing scripts should not be too hard to pull off. However, it would have an impact on FPS in towns based on what happened when a modder scripted Balmora. However even then, it was not too bad of an impact. Its not like we really need high FPS in towns, not much is happening in those places to worry about that.