NPCs kinda suck

[boxcartenant]

Let's make, for a week, Discovery: Dark Souls Edition.

lol! That would be awesome, but I want to point out that it's extreme. I'm not saying we should make it super-difficult to survive everywhere. I'm just saying there should be a reasonable gradient of difficulties across the universe, and slightly fewer NPC encounters.

When I see an NPC battle in space, where I should be saying, "Wow, a battle! I'm gonna go help my faction and earn some loot!" Instead, I'm thinking, "I could be getting this same experience from a chat-room and a discovery channel documentary." I walk boldly into space occupied by the mortal enemies of my way of life, because there are no consequences; only purposeless "bullets" whizzing around me like gnats.

Also, I just thought I'd throw this out there: space is empty. For real-life to even begin to approach the encounter-rate that we have in Freelancer, there'd have to be quadrillions of ships in our solar system.

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