Adding Life to the Cities!

[Mack]

I think what would help in giving life to the NPCs themselves is making them important to YOU the player. What I mean is say you pick up a quest in Ul'Dah, that quest can be initiated in Ul'Dah as part of a quest chain and makes it way to another city perhaps where you would meet the same NPC there as well. Or Perhaps a quest kills off an NPC, he should disappear from the city, etc.

[Kailok]

I think what would help in giving life to the NPCs themselves is making them important to YOU the player. What I mean is say you pick up a quest in Ul'Dah, that quest can be initiated in Ul'Dah as part of a quest chain and makes it way to another city perhaps where you would meet the same NPC there as well. Or Perhaps a quest kills off an NPC, he should disappear from the city, etc.

I actually like the idea of NPCs disappearing, but it should be as a sort of city-wide event that everyone knows about and could participate in if they choose to. Like say one of the Gridanian Ambassadors from the Twin Adders is kidnapped in Ul'Dah by one of the more prominant street gangs in Ul'Dah looking to get a ransom. Raubahn immediately orders a squad of The Immortal Flames to dispatch and take them out and you or your group decides to help out. the more people that attend, they could increase the level of difficulty, which shouldn't be hard for SE to figure out since they eventually ended up doing that same sort of programming with Campaign in FFXI. I'd love to be in the middle of a city-wide scrap to save a VIP-NPC.