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CCP ! Why aren't NPCs real virtual people ?
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Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-11-16 14:28:53 UTC



All the code you need to start out, you already have.



(the grey haulers, that haul crap and don't trigger CONCORD when attacked)
(all rats, officers, sleepers, CONCORD agents, faction police, customs agents !)



Your in-game NPCs have *no* personality !



You should push this technology,
to give the impression of actual, real people !



Their ships deserve proper names !
Names people would give their ships !



They can be seen on the overview and players will recognise !




It would, at worst, cost a day of work to create a proper random name generator !
(farming the internet for names is an idea too)





I can see ships flying around inside the station !


Why aren't they undocking ??




Shuttles who transport people.
Thoraxes for luxury cruising.

Let your mind flow !




Have them run pirate sites and let them compete with players for them !
With carebears ! Carebears would be shooting NPC people !



They don't trigger CONCORD !




It's like a smarter rat !






NPC haulers moving from Boundless Creations Station in Hek
to Dodixie IV Moon 20 ... accustomed by a fleet of npcs.



They don't trigger CONCORD !




All with proper ship names, infos of their pilots/captains/whatever with proper npc names.
(you can create random faces, you remember?)

(you need to expand on your bios, though)






Make them real !




You already have the technology !




(and even carebears would shoot these ships)


(X Rebirth my ass !)
Jamagh
Grand Violations
#2 - 2013-11-16 14:40:12 UTC
I would not be surprised if those hauler ships were piloted by remote. As for people shooting those ships.. from what I have read, they drop nothing worth the ammo. As for making the NPCs more... lifelike.... I would like to walk into their office, and talk to them to get missions. Even just seeing NPCs walking around doing random things. Yeah, I am a WIS guy. One of THOSE people. But I want MORE from this game, something to do besides just shoot belt rats, or mine.


I want to be able to get inside my ship, and see my crew. Interact with them, go up to my first officer and say, "Number One, I order you to take a number 2!"

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Sevendeadly Sins
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-11-16 14:40:48 UTC
Please biomass your character.

Have a nice day.

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Dasola
New Edens Freeports
#4 - 2013-11-16 14:47:23 UTC
To properly simulate virtual pilots, they would need couple more clusters for server side... Im sure you don't have problem paying 3 times the monthly fees for your accounts, do you?

Current server cluster barely is enough to run game as it is now and TIDI kicks in when its not... Yeah lets add there some more simulation stuff to make it even worse then it is... Blink

We are Minmatar, Our ship are made of scraps, but look what our scraps can do...
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2013-11-16 14:49:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Solstice Project
Dasola wrote:
To properly simulate virtual pilots, they would need couple more clusters for server side... Im sure you don't have problem paying 3 times the monthly fees for your accounts, do you?

Current server cluster barely is enough to run game as it is now and TIDI kicks in when its not... Yeah lets add there some more simulation stuff to make it even worse then it is... Blink
No, that's bull !

You have no idea what you're talking about !


Even at the smallest stage with more haulers,
all they'd do is *move around* !

They don't need any code for anything *we do*, (trade, build, chat, produce, etc.)
because there is no way of perceiving them doing it !


Edit for clarity:

NPCs don't actually do anything a player can do.

The npc people would only be visuals. There doesn't need to be extensive background stuff happening,
it's all pretty much just movement and code that's already there anyway. In rats ! Sleepers ! Sanshas !
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-11-16 15:01:35 UTC
wat/10

Dodixie > Hek
SeenButNotHeard
Perkone
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-11-16 15:05:30 UTC
Thread title confused me so much I had to pinch myself.
To Be Me
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-11-16 15:05:33 UTC
Instructions not clear, got **** stuck in fan..

thumbs up if you like :))))
KuroVolt
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2013-11-16 16:57:18 UTC
I dont get why nobody is getting what he is saying, he explained it fairly well.

Its not a bad idea, not something that I feel would affect me much, but it would make CCPs universe seem slightly more alive, and it wouldnt take all that much effort on CCPs side.

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Noriko Mai
#10 - 2013-11-16 17:00:50 UTC
And if you shoot them they whine in local. And when concord shoots you, they brag in local and link the killmail Big smileBig smileBig smile

"Meh.." - Albert Einstein
Saber1
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2013-11-16 17:04:16 UTC
I want to date my Lvl4 Agent.

Am I in the right request topic?
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-11-16 17:10:58 UTC
Saber1 wrote:
I want to date my Lvl4 Agent.

Am I in the right request topic?
I believe there's a long way to go,
but if CCP integrates NPCs into the game,
then there's also more reason to push WiS. :)

Population !
Kiryen O'Bannon
SUNDERING
Goonswarm Federation
#13 - 2013-11-16 17:28:55 UTC
Not only does this topic explore new bounds of triviality, but OP needs to lay off the enter key.

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Inquisitor Ageri
Doomheim
#14 - 2013-11-16 17:33:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Inquisitor Ageri
TLDR. This is why RvB exists, to safely house window-lickers.
Solstice Project
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2013-11-16 17:38:09 UTC
Inquisitor Ageri wrote:
TLDR. This is why RvB exists, to safely house window-lickers.
Awww, look how smart he is !
Very impressive !

Congratulations !
Princess Bride
SharkNado
#16 - 2013-11-16 17:38:26 UTC
+1

Adding more dimension to NPCs would help with immersion. Nothing wrong with that.

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Jake Warbird
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2013-11-16 18:07:40 UTC
I wanna tie my l4 agent to my hull. Atleast then he/she would appreciate how dangerous my NPC enemies are and pay more.

No, this is not a rant about how less l4s pay.

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Thaddeus Eggeras
Urkrathos Corp
#18 - 2013-11-16 18:14:56 UTC
I'm game for this idea, make them more so when you talk to them you have options for what to say, and what you say will determine what they say and how they act. Like if they give you a Amarr mission but you rather not kill Amarr you can explain why, and they can explain why they need you to do it, and if you won't they give you a pirate mission but for half of what it would have been worth, and after they know not to ask you to do amarr missions (this would be for like SoE missions). Also have the rats run if they are being rocked, maybe gvie them drones, and if they are being rocked have them bribe you, or stuff, etc etc.
J3ssica Alba
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2013-11-16 18:15:35 UTC
This man has a vision. Hire him CCP !

(He might get enough money to buy a new keyboard with an enter key that doesn't do 5 lines at once)
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stoicfaux
#20 - 2013-11-16 18:22:07 UTC
Two words: player content.
One more word: bots.

Bots are EVE's NPCs.

Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
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