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I think in order for our new cities to have any sort of life, we need to have NPC citizens walking the streets.

My number one request for cities, and this has been ongoing since beta, is the ability of Mayors to place NPCs and craft little phrases for them to say and little conversation trees to have.

We could make herald NPCs for our towns, and I can stop using half of my vendors as mission NPCs for my town's roleplaying and military segments.

Further, will NPC citizens begin spawning in towns as mission desitinations? And if so, will they hang around for a little while to make it look like someone lives here?

The Cities in Star Wars Galaxies has been blasted in the reviews of the game since launch for being sterile and lifeless, and this is WITH some NPCs wandering around (well, actually standing facing walls, but you get my point). Can you imagine Coronet with NO NPCS? Wow.

RbT

Well, not the BEST way to solve your problems, but if you have a mission terminal in your city, you can do Delivery Missions, Cancel the missions, and take new missions. This will spawn NPCs in your city(at least that is how QAville on test has been doing it).

well i posted something similar to this:

Ok I have seen discussions on stuctures, taxes, militia, and even faction bases, but I have yet seen a suggestion or a comment on NPC citizens. Will there be any if not , why not? Already NPC Cities are ghost towns from lack of PCs but will the PC Cities be worse? Will we have an option to add NPC citizens or will there be added to the area randomly depending on the level a city is at? Other than Terminals will there be NPCs with missions? Would the Devs be willing to rotate a NPC mission amoung the cities every week or every two weeks to get ppl to venture into these PC cities? I would love to see a unique mission NPC sprout up in my city making more ppl want to come to us even for a short time to do the unique mission or to get that really kool and rare item.

Any thoughts on this.

Fetor

how about having NPCs "spawn" in a ratio to your current city population? E.G.1:2 ratio would give you one random wandering NPC per 2 population. This would help give cities a little life...

I like this very much. Tie some random NPC spawns to spawn sites that can be emplaced (and paid for out of the mayor's pocket?) would be nice too.

RbT

Yeah the Devs should link it to the size of your city and have them spawn around certain places that we mark for spawns so they don't spawn in buildings.

Maller Malice

Also regarding delivery missions ... I would like to see delivery missions from other cities take a player city into account ... to get visitors to the city.

that would be fun to have to travel to a Player City because of a Mission.

How does this sound as a proposal (taking into account Pex's recent comments

A certain number of NPC citizens spawn depending on the size of your city. They are not mission destinations, they are not nameable or customizable. They merely walk a set of randomly selected waypoints.

For a size 1 city, you get none.

Size 2: 2

Size 3: 5

Size 4: 10

Size 5: 20

Lag aside, is there any other major issues with this?

RbT

Where do these NPCs live? Seriously! In the NPC cities there are lots of houses explaining where they come from, but in the player cities all the houses are used by some player. So, this is what i suggest, you can make a playerhouse a NPC building:

Small house: Gives city 2 NPCs

Medium house: Gives city 4 NPCs

Large House:Gives City 6 NPCs

A house used by NPCs cannot be entered by anyone but the owner and his only options are to make it a PC building again and to pay maintanance.

I don't think they should count as Citizens but mobs yes