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

[Malakhim]

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

Yeah, like your games are released buggy as all hell and there's never any patches for mon-DAMNIT BEHTESDA STOP USING GAMEBRYO!

[Chrees]

I wish they would just add NPCs doing the things they were doing in the opening cutscene, right before you take control of your character in the Adventurers' Guild.

People going about their business in the center square in Limsa Lominsa, saying their goodbyes in front of the waterfalls in Gridania, trading with one another in Ul'dah... That's all I ask for.

[Rydin]

I wish they would just add NPCs doing the things they were doing in the opening cutscene, right before you take control of your character in the Adventurers' Guild.

People going about their business in the center square in Limsa Lominsa, saying their goodbyes in front of the waterfalls in Gridania, trading with one another in Ul'dah... That's all I ask for.

And to go along with that, people riding the Limsa-Ul'dah Ferry.... You always see a ton of people in the Ferry cutscene.... where do they go?

[viion]

I strongly agree with this, it annoys me they just stand there almost lifeless, I want NPC (even important ones) to walk around, i miss FF12 where npcs walked all over. Even XI had some roaming npcs.

[heero]

as much as i would like to see this i doubt we will see it to the extent we would like mainly due to programming overhead and bandwidth issues would end up making the game too laggy who knows maybe oneday that won't be an issue

[Rydin]

as much as i would like to see this i doubt we will see it to the extent we would like mainly do to programming overhead and bandwidth issues would end up making the game too laggy who knows maybe oneday that won't be an issue

Would a mobile NPC use up way more bandwidth or resources than a player character?
You realize there are already thousands of NPC's running around already? Marmots, Antlings, Goats, etc....
Isn't that all we are asking for.... non-attackable MOB's?

[Kafeen]

I'd like to see this too. Everything at the moment is just too static. There's noone in the cities moving, everyone is just stood in the spot all day repeating the same thing if they're spoken to.

Have NPCs moving around the city, going about their daily lives.
NPCs travelling between their homes to their shops in order to open and close.
Have different areas be more populated depending on the time of day, eg. NPCs shopping during the day, going to bars at night.
Have some variation in what people say, rather than repeating the same thing all the time.
Merchants travelling to other cities or outposts that could even be used to trigger quests to defend them from attackers.

[Ceska_Zbrojovka]

It would be good to see some activity from NPC's.
A schedule where some merchants are open while others are not.
Or even times of day where there's a group of Npc's meeting on a street corner chatting.

Seeing a patrol of guards doing the rounds outside Ul'Dah, and encountering a Marmot, giving you the chance to stand back and watch a fight.
(Toughest marmot that ever existed. Teeth like daggers, claws that could rip a man in two. Took 3 city guards to bing it down it did)

But it's true, apart from the player activity, there is a lack of life in any of the cities.
Even at the camps the Battlewarden magically appears.
It would greatly improve immersion if the BW emerged from one of the tents and walked over to their corner before calling for volunteers.

[Seif]

It would help if they had something interesting to say too.
Also give them all real names!
It's hard to get attached to the "Guy standing near pier" type of characters. Many XI NPCs had a story to tell and that's the reason to me that they felt more alive.

[SizeMatters]

Well they move in the guilds