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arent we bored of NPC's AI?
alshamsiman
Member Posts: 7
With all of this amazing real life graphics....i dont understand why wont they upgrade NPC's AI(i'm talking in general),the only thing NPCs do is patrol an area and spawn scripted speech 
We want more action!
I want em to eat!,sleep!,react to your emotes 
etc
I mean come on nobody is taking it seriously!!
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I don't care much about NPC social interaction, though it'd be nice if they responded to your emotes. What I hate is the simplicity of combat AI in almost every MMOG out there. Even the most challenging encounters rely on what was scripted for them to do. At the best of cases, they use certain abilities at random intervals and that's just about all there is to it. They do not respond according to the changes in their enviroment. A mob will react in the exact same manner despite the composition of the player group.
Vanguard does seem a step further though. Though information is vague, it seems that mobs respond according to the situation. For instance, a raid boss will retreat if he's greatly outnumbered (which would otherwise make the encounter really easy). And there's their diplomacy system that sounds quite nice.
Currently playing:
* City of Heroes: Deggial, Assault Rifle/Devices Blaster. Server: Defiant.
* City of Villains: Snakeroot, Plant/Thorns Dominator. Server: Defiant.
Currently there is no NPC ai in mmo's. It's all scripted. That is because it's technically impossible to make stellar ai in mmo's. Advanced Ai is something that takes a huge amount of cpu power, the cpu's in the current mmo servers are overloaded enough. Adding advanced ai would bring them completely to a hold.
It would be nice with advanced ai. But sadly it's currently not possible.