IDEA: New Projectile-based Machine Gun for Battleships?

[Lythrilux]

Are you seriously trying to infer that players are going to leave because there won't be any NPCs? Are you seriously implying that AI-controlled ships that have 2 or 3 generic phrases that we've all heard 9000 times add life to a system? And furthermore that they contribute to activity, instead of the in game interactions and encounters created by players?
You can't be serious. No way.

Since you edited your post I'll edit mine:
NPCs add nothing to Kusari and Gallia. I'm not sure what you see, but right now I'm seeing hardly any players in Gallia and even less in Kusari. If we want Kusari and Gallia to be alive, then we do so by cutting systems, adding good traderoutes and so forth.

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