Eorzea is dead... [Suggestion] Bring Eorzea to life

[Rydin]

Hahaha... its not what you think.... its not THAT kind of thread...

What I'm suggesting is make the NPC's move... they all stand still....

Give me...
NPC's that walk around...
Guards that do the rounds outside Ul'dah...
Chocobo carriages that traverse the roads out in the fields....

doesn't even have to be highly interactive or anything... just make them move and do stuff.... talk to each other... make one run out of the Alchemist guild screaming with his hair on fire.... Anything.. everything..

GIVE THE NPC'S SOME LIFE

[BadJoeRed]

Yeah, they could always use more I suppose. But I was already a little impressed with some of the npc's actions inside the guilds where they can be seen practicing with weapons etc.

Not to steal somebody's suggestion on Zam, but he mentioned how cool it would be if the merchant NPCs had open and closed times for their shops, and could then be seen walking away from their stands during closing time to some NPC housing area. I thought that would be kind of cool too.

[Galamantyl]

I am in favor of NPCs being out of the way and preferably in one place where I can find them.

[Neptune]

I too think they should move!

[BelgianRofl]

There should be things in town like gambling houses, PVP arenas/chobocobo racing where people could spectate. There should be cool little shops, and npcs selling interesting/illegal things in the alleyways. The cities need to be cities. Right now, there's just 50 people kneeling down banging on an anvil for hours on end. There's nothing to do in the cities. nowhere to go. That coupled with the fact that the servers are pretty much empty because nobody wants to play this game makes FFXIV a borrring place to be.

[Malakhim]

...make one run out of the Alchemist guild screaming with his hair on fire.

I specifically want this.

I agree though that I'd like to see some kind of movement. Maybe some yellowjackets or knights of the barracudas making the rounds in Limsa, or lalafell children running amok in Ul'dah, or maybe some Sylphs/fireflies, or people just walking along the paths of Gridania.

Who knows? There's nothing that says they can't add stuff like that and tie it into quests later.

[Wolfie]

I am in favor of NPCs being out of the way and preferably in one place where I can find them.

I'm not. WOW-style quest hubs, with NPCs that may as well not even exist, blow.

[Galamantyl]

I'm not. WOW-style quest hubs, with NPCs that may as well not even exist, blow.

I am in favor of PCs being the significant factor of population within a city.

I am strongly against WoW.

I am strongly against quest bubbles above NPC's heads.

I am strongly against the FPS-style controls.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

radiant AI is very cool (play oblivion) npc have scheduals. Sometimes odd things happen.

[Rydin]

I am in favor of PCs being the significant factor of population within a city.

I am strongly against WoW.

I am strongly against quest bubbles above NPC's heads.

I am strongly against the FPS-style controls.

You're right though.... I dont think we want to fill the cities up with NPC's.. but having the ones there do more than just stand would be nice.
I think the quest bubble will definitely be reexamined at some point... Many people dont like it... but these are points for another thread