Has there ever been any thought about having 'live' NPCs? I know that's a contradiction in terms, but what I mean is a live actor who plays as an NPC and does something special in game. Like a gangster boss that comes into the bar and causes trouble or gives out a few special missions. Or perhaps, a politician who comes to town square and gives a little speech and talks to the people in town. But the gangster and politician are CIG agents/employees, role playing parts.asked by RandyLove
TL;DRLive CIG-staff-played NPCs were not something they had discussed, and instancing would cause technical issues, so they would rather give players tools to play such mission-giving roles themselves.
From RandyLove: Has there ever been any thought about having 'live' NPCs? I know that's a contradiction in terms, but what I mean is a live actor who plays as an NPC and does something special in game. Like a gangster boss that comes into the bar and causes trouble or gives out a few special missions. Or perhaps, a politician who comes to town square and gives a little speech and talks to the people in town. But the gangster and politician are CIG agents/employees, role playing parts.
It was kind of a cool fun idea of us playing NPC's, it's not something we've talked about before but it kind of caught our imagination live so we thought we would talk about it today. There's some limitations to that because of the way instancing works is that we would have to either have a bunch of different actors that some people were experiencing and I think there would be kind of some technical issues but a lot of the stuff that was addressed in here about this gangland boss coming into a bar and starting trouble and giving people jobs to do, is something we actually want you all to be able to do as players to be able to take on these roles. To be mission generators yourselves and to really roleplay these cool characters and interact with each other, So whereas we might see the tools for you to do that it'll be fun to see how you as players take on these roles and cause troubles and start off your own plot points that we can pick up on.
And yeah on the other side of that too the players that are starting to see the trouble roll down the hill and kind of come in collectively go, "Wait a minute I saw that guy over there" and trying to maybe being able to counteract what that person might be trying to do to.
But yeah we'll have to think more about mind jacking NPC"s like all of a sudden the bartender slowly look at you. [laughs]
[laughs] Mindjacking...
But probably not, maybe but probably notAW: Yeah great question, very interesting.