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Recruit
Right now the towns and people in them are pretty simple and basic, even useless. Nothing that could not already be done from a simple button to click on the town painting/intro screen of options for a random NPC folk to answer rudimentary questions where almost all answers are the exact same from one person to the next in the same village and in most instances, any where. Even the way they roam mindlessly around town as if they have no soul is pretty obvious.
They walk to the outer edges of the town for no reason, do a quick 180 and walk back. Some bump into walls or walk up steps only to walk back down them. They do not try to flee or get out of the way when you come charging down the street riding a horse. In fact they some how make you come to a dead stop always. You can not draw your sword on them and they do not run in panic or try grab their own weapons and you cannot even attack them directly at first, you have to attack the village placement on the map itself.
I would like to see women gossiping, doing laundry and sweeping their steps. Children playing or doing chores (if ever added). Men fishing, hunting, chopping wood, farming, etc. In the castle towns I want people bartering, arguing, playing games, etc. I want to see people walking with something meaningful in their hands, such as the mother with the large head of cabbage for tonight's supper, while the father brings the firewood. I just want something meaningful regarding NPCs in game.
They already have beautiful towns and the NPC place holders, but nothing substantial. It makes one not even want to travel into these towns that the devs DID a lot of work to make them look great. I think most of us travel their simply to talk to the elder. And mods that let us even skip that, we do. But if the towns felt more alive I think, I know I would at least, travel to them more often and enjoy the sites and hospitality or lack there of. It would be great if an NPC tried to initiate an actual conversation with you, or those who respect you to curtsy or bow, wave even at least. And those who hate or who are afraid of you would run from you, cower in the corner, offer you meaningless gifts or even try to attack you if you are in the wrong town. Something!
They walk to the outer edges of the town for no reason, do a quick 180 and walk back. Some bump into walls or walk up steps only to walk back down them. They do not try to flee or get out of the way when you come charging down the street riding a horse. In fact they some how make you come to a dead stop always. You can not draw your sword on them and they do not run in panic or try grab their own weapons and you cannot even attack them directly at first, you have to attack the village placement on the map itself.
I would like to see women gossiping, doing laundry and sweeping their steps. Children playing or doing chores (if ever added). Men fishing, hunting, chopping wood, farming, etc. In the castle towns I want people bartering, arguing, playing games, etc. I want to see people walking with something meaningful in their hands, such as the mother with the large head of cabbage for tonight's supper, while the father brings the firewood. I just want something meaningful regarding NPCs in game.
They already have beautiful towns and the NPC place holders, but nothing substantial. It makes one not even want to travel into these towns that the devs DID a lot of work to make them look great. I think most of us travel their simply to talk to the elder. And mods that let us even skip that, we do. But if the towns felt more alive I think, I know I would at least, travel to them more often and enjoy the sites and hospitality or lack there of. It would be great if an NPC tried to initiate an actual conversation with you, or those who respect you to curtsy or bow, wave even at least. And those who hate or who are afraid of you would run from you, cower in the corner, offer you meaningless gifts or even try to attack you if you are in the wrong town. Something!
