What do you want your npc's to do?

ultimately they'll use their complex ai to do things like scratch their robot butts while nobody is looking

 

Their butts would itch?

 

well it is very sophisticated ai

 

ITCHING....BUTTS

 

Just make sure you wash your hands afterwards, especially if you plan on eating anything.

 

Noted.

 

Start a civilization on it's own! like, building shops, houses, harvesting some stuff...
unlike terraria, and those dumb NPCs

Merchant:
"duh, me dumb, build house for me, yes?"

Guide:
"oh no! zombie! let's open this door..."

 

I don't think the base NPCs are a key feature, all I want of them is that they offer their services to me, let me purchase things and leave me alone. I don't want them to do anything special.

If anything, they could talk to eachother, that's about the only thing I'd like them to do as one of those tiny cool details a game could have.

 

I hope they help me save time, so I can be more efficient and more time doing something else.

 

Sometimes... I find it amusing killing npcs... Are these npc able to die?

 

Ifyouknowwhatimean

 

To sell me illegal fireworks.

 

I don't think they'll be able to die, but Tiy did say that they would be able to be provoked. >8D

 

Oh my seems like things got a little more interesting.

 

Personally, I would prefer a mix of specialist characters (those we can't control at all, purely NPCs to be cooks, cleaners, etc), which would be the majority of NPCs, and some characters we can give jobs to. They might not always obey, but they'd do basically what we want. That way we'll be able to have cleaners cleaning our ship without our input, except hiring them, and have our engineers working on space cannons, doctors making potions to kill the Poptop or even teachers lying for us. It's a little micromanagement based, but damn, in Starbound it'll make me feel so important.

I don't really know what'll be in the final game, but I hope we can at least employ our own people, give them our own pay, give them orders or at least have their own opinions... Or scratching butts and picking each others hair.

 

I would like the NPC's to have their own little lives. Like schedules and stuff. "Oh you wanna buy a gun? Sorry, I was having a snack, I'll be up to my store in a second!"

 

The ones in your Space Station at least should definitely wander around to some degree. If they stand in a designated space all day (Note: Space stations don't have a day probably) it won't feel right.

 

Dig, build, rebel. Wouldn't it be nice if you came home from a different planet, and your NPCs had built a nice little house for themselves, possibly gotten into fights with each other, held grudges, found a vein of rare minerals, accidentally blew up aforementioned house, or even tried to kill you? It would add a little more realism to the NPCs.

 

all i want is for the space hobo to do something useful otherwise hes going in a little space "trip" hehehe

 

I want them to play Twister while flying with a jetpack