I was curious as to how Star Citizen will tackle digital families of NPCs as well as children in general? It seems that in most games, children NPCs are simply absent, but going down to a planet and only seeing men and women about their daily lives could take away from immersion.asked by Jeremiah Irons
TL;DRChris Roberts says there is no child character pipeline yet, so children would at most be background NPCs for variety and not something done at the start; players will only be adult male or female.
That is a good question. We don't really have a child character pipeline at the moment. So we may very well be guilty of what most other MMOs are. I would say if there were some children they would only be sort of background NPC stuff, kinda specifically just to add some variety to an environment. But yeah, we're really only planning on players being able to pick whether they want to be male or female - and it's an adult male or an adult female - and then sort of customize or dress up your character. NPC-wise is the only way you'll see a little bit of children, and that really comes down to variety.So it certainly won't be something that we would be doing at the very beginning, because we've got our hands cut out for us just doing the various characters and costume combinations and all the rest of the stuff. But it is a good point, so thanks, Jeremiah.