Lifeless world ?

[HiirNoivl]

Not exactly the best example to take to be honest. Considering Ul'dah had a festival going on during the cutscene. Not to mention a large accident. Basically, it would have been weird if the festival was still on-going for ages.

That said, it certainly would have been nice to see people buy stuff from the merchants or the likes.

Actually it's a great example. But if you want another one, try the Limsa Intro from when you put in to port. This is not a festival, it's supposed to be a normal day in a port city. Something that really disappointed me in FFXIV 1.0 is that the ships never moved. You couldn't even really get on them.

[Shougun]

Actually it's a great example. But if you want another one, try the Limsa Intro from when you put in to port. This is not a festival, it's supposed to be a normal day in a port city. Something that really disappointed me in FFXIV 1.0 is that the ships never moved. You couldn't even really get on them.

While I know we will have zones so not 100% applicable I would like the general philosophy that if you see it you can do something with it lol

Hate seeing docked ships 2 inches from the pier and I cant get on the damn thing XD (no guards around even to stop me!? lol).

With the addition of sea, sky and the jump feature maybe it will be so.

[Zantetsuken]

Simple paths for NPCs to walk about would be easy enough. and they could be time-based.

Some examples:

Guards at Gridania gates change shifts twice a day. (new guard zones in and replaces old one who walks back to zone and leaves) The differently named NPCs can offer different quests depending on time of day.

Fishing Miqote near LL guild stops fishing once ever 3 game hours, and walks into guild to talk to NPC for an hour or 2, then returns to fishing. - repeats

A slightly more complex example:

Merchant Ship comes in to dock in LL, 2 or 3 workers unloading cargo from it. Ship leaves and workers go to resting position next to stack of cargo. A new ship comes in 3 game hours later and workers load cargo into ship. and rest after ship leaves. wait 4 game hours and the whole sequence repeats.

[odintius]

They do have something plan called F.A.T.E I'll leave the acronym up to you to find.