will i be able to recruit and army?

we all know theres humanoid npcs in the game now
in the game will we be able to recruit them as soilders or mercenarys to fight for us?

 

If I cant army in this game, I'll be sad. >.>

 

If you mean have a large group of friend play together on the same side? Yes.

I'm also hoping you'll be able to tame animals and have humanoid NPCs work for you.

 

You may tame animals.

You may not tame NPCs.

 

I wish we would be able to. Would give the game another layer of fun.

 

Not that I don't believe you immediately, but do you have any proof of this?

 

*Lands on Planet*
*Sees a bunch of native humanoids*

"IN THE METAL CAGES I SAY! IN!" *Whips* *Whips*
"Good, Gooooood! MWAHAHAHHA!"

*Shoves metal crages full of NPC's into ship beaming location to be called up into the storage room*

Fuzzy the Yeti King dictator!

 

It was confirmed ages ago. Might have been changed lately, I don't know.

 

Here's some random, crazy logic.

In Terraria, you could only watch as your NPCs got mobbed and wonder why that gun merchant didn't pull out that Minishark he's always selling and let loose. Terraria's NPCs didn't use the player character model, and there was no work done to allow you to equip them with things.

Let me point out that NPCs in Starbound use the same character graphics that the player's character does. Also notice that many things Chucklefish does with Starbound is already an attempt to improve on Terraria.

Hasn't Omni already talked about how NPCs were naked then they worked out making them wear clothes? Sounds like the mechanics of it are coming along. How much further would we need to go to simply allow players to give them the stuff they use?

I am throwing a wild one out here, but there may be some things Chucklefish wishes to keep secret in order to provide a nice, little surprise on beta day. It might be a good way to surpass those expectations already surrounding Starbound.

At the very least, it would be very sensible for them to think about it if they haven't already, yes?

 

I think they already said that NPCs will use the gear and weapons that players can use.
Whether or not you can hire them... I don't think we've been told anything about that.

 

THis could cause serious problems in PVP

 

Meh, why recruit an army of NPCs when you can recruit an army of players pretty much no matter what. In case you can't tell I plan to play on servers a lot more then singleplayer.

 

Dat grammar

 

...really you read a post and then you must post it on everything don't you?