EVE General Discussion

If you shoot at player controled ships, if you are mostly red for everybody, If you have a bounty on your head, you are behaving like an NPC.

Everyone can behave like a NPC, there is those Code gate NPCs, there are those belt rat NPCs that shoot miners, there are missions with blobs of NPCs.

Don't kid yourself, AI could potentially be programmed to fight perfectly, keep perfect ranges, warp at the same time, react with precision - negating all the squishy slow and stupid things humans do.

One thing I've never seen an AI achieve yet and that is to be unpredictable.

One thing I've never seen an AI achieve yet and that is to be unpredictable.

Now, we know that most of the NPCs in eve are just mission agents: even some key characters are manipulated behind the scenes by CCP. (That's my understanding of it, anyway.)

But what about those 'Jita Bears' who stay perpetually docked in trade hubs playing the market? What about the researchers and vendors? In the traditional MMO model, those roles are filled by NPCs, but in EVE they are human players who just never mine, never rat, never run missions and would never dream of PvP. They are, in short, Nondricks.

If you follow that link, you'll see what I mean. EVE is filled with people who have taken on the traditional roles in order to sustain the galactic economy. But then I got to thinking: once citadels come out, could we begin to see lonely outposts with single players selling rare items? Could I get a invite to dock my cruiser at Slim Cognito's shack in some godforsaken wormhole system and buy some rare officer modules?