Tsuku
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Posted - 2006.04.03 11:51:00 -
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Warning, my post may make the leet PVP killboard freaks amoung you vomit, so better to avoid reading it if you fit into this category :P
more 'hustle and bustle' from NPCs.
I'd like to see more NPC activity, I've never seen an npc mining op so at the moment I only see convoys leaving stations occaisonally, police/concord ships here and there and NPC rats at belts and missions.
NPCs I'd like to see added:
firstly for decoration and 'space filling' purposes, researchers in shuttles or frigates, real NPC that work for a corp, so you'd see the CEO of Gal Fed Navy moving from one station to another in an Opux yacht or something like that (this could be a rare sighting), lower ranked npc corp employees could appear a little more often and in more common ships. NPC mining ops in empire (that dont actually deplete the ore, or if they do only very little).
I'd like to also see much more variation in the missions, Important missions for Gal Fed Navy might send you to a Caldari station to kill one of the top NPC for that corp (and his bodyguard escorts). Missions to destroy the guarded npc mining ops mentioned above. I just feel that at the moment its just fly to these NPC, kill them and come back, none of it really seems to interact with the day to day happenings (or lack of) of the eve universe.
It might be silly to add many NPC to 1.0 systems or other systems that are busy there is already enough players/lag there so leave it, but perhaps the system could generate NPCs depending on the average numbers of players that are in the system (for lag reasons).
Now im not saying EVE should copy any other game or style of universe but I always loved the missions in Elite2: Frontier where you would get a kill mission and it went like this, you had to travel to a certain station or planet and the target NPC would leave at a certain time and you had to follow it for a bit until it was in a good area to kill it, no police around etc, this made me feel like this npc had something to do, like its own life, in eve NPC seem to wait around in belts or mission loations just floating there waiting for people to come and kill them.
One last thing, the few times ive been to 0.0 space it looked SO empty, I really dont think that 0.0 should be a place that is very busy with lots of NPC but a few here and there at stations and gates will definatly add to making the universe feel a little more alive in those barren systems. |