What is the state of the NPC crew AI? Will we be able to throw a few NPC into our multicrew ships when Arena Commander 2.0 goes live, or is that something that will come in the future?asked by Wrex Blackthorne

So, that will definitely come in the future . In Tony's outline of what we've been doing on the social/persistent universe, he outline's when we're going to bring AI into the Planetside environments with Subsumption which is a sort of a higher level AI system that we have that runs the daily lives of the AI and allows them to get up in the morning, go to their job, go get lunch somewhere, go back to their job, go home, go to sleep, etc. So, Subsumption and a few other basic AI things need to be finished off so we can have it run universally around the place so it can work inside zones, inside ships flying. So, that's not going to be for the very first release of multicrew but it will hopefully be a few releases after that. We'll definitely have AI going about their daily lives in the universe or in the multicrew test large world map, hopefully not too far after multicrew. We'll definitely have AI that you will encounter even with the release of multicrew so there will be PVE opportunities as well as PVP opportunities in this big soundbox map we're going to give you guys. There will be a lot to do but having actual specific crew that can work on your ship will not be part of that initial release, that will be a longer term thing. So, there you go.