NPCs should talk amongst themselves.

[quantumsaint]

I think the Adventurer's Guilds and the other guilds would feel a lot more alive if the NPCs had a line or two of dialogue they would speak aloud in /say now and then. It wouldn't have to be all the time (like spamming the same thing every five minutes), but just once in a while say something like, "Did you hear about the Garleans in Gridania?" little things like that to bring some life to the world. Text could change with future patches to reflect changes, and if someone doesn't want to see NPCs chit-chatting all the time, there could be a separate filter to turn it off.

Thoughts?

[Falcus]

Yeah would be a nice addition to see.

P.S I like your sig.

[quantumsaint]

Yeah would be a nice addition to see.

P.S I like your sig.

Thanks, I both like and agree with your sig.

[Coombah]

They should make NPC's in general act like there alive. Have them walk to diff places, craft, talk laugh interact with players. Have the guards do shifts at all the different posts where u can also see them being relieved for ther shift.

[quantumsaint]

They should make NPC's in general act like there alive. Have them walk to diff places, craft, talk laugh interact with players. Have the guards have shifts at different posts where u can see them being relived of duty for ther shift.

Would be cool to have monsters that roamed near the gates and see the gate guards have to put something down from time to time. Dusty Mongrels or something that would actually encroach on a population. Marmots probably wouldn't be all that threatening.

[Coombah]

Would be cool to have monsters that roamed near the gates and see the gate guards have to put something down from time to time. Dusty Mongrels or something that would actually encroach on a population. Marmots probably wouldn't be all that threatening.

I agree, guards should remove threats in camp areas or at the entrance of City-States/ towns etc.

[Falcus]

Would be cool to have monsters that roamed near the gates and see the gate guards have to put something down from time to time. Dusty Mongrels or something that would actually encroach on a population. Marmots probably wouldn't be all that threatening.

*Marmot approaches town*
Guard talking to the marmot: "I'm sorry, but you're not allowed in here."

[Orca]

Marmots probably wouldn't be all that threatening.

Until we get some form of iron plated loin protection i'm always going to consider Nutbiter and Nutgrabber Marmots to be of a relatively high threat level. =S

I'd like to see NPCs have some autonomy, i know in Rift you have random mobs encroach on certain settlements and you can join in with an NPC to take them down, i kinda like that. Just gives you the feeling that you're in a dangerous world when the local wildlife gets involved. As for the text lines, yeah it'd be pretty nifty to see little chat lines here and there. Aslong as they cool it in Limsa, i can't understand a word those NPCs say. Half the time i think Baderon is speaking in tongues, he's like 'Oh ar' me 'arty o' sea o' 'er 'oer fer ye own 'ta sea arrrr' and im just like '...what?'

[redmage]

Would definitely welcome this. I love seeing the npcs training in the various guilds, showing some form of life from them. I think NPC conversations would be great to have, and of course filterable for those who don't want to keep seeing them.

[Seif]

Sounds great as long as it's not voice acted.

I love the way Super Mario Rpgs chit-chat is going on as small speech bubbles all the time and their size depends on the importance of the information they contain.