Suggestion+poll: NPC wars

[Timmy]

Croft, you say why NPC annoy people, not why this idea is bad. NPCs annoy people because they appear anywhere, any time (especially when they're there) and bother everyone. That's how they are implemented into the game right now.

What I suggested is make sort of mini events where NPCs from both fighting factions spawn at some specific time in the same, known area. This way people who want to have fights in space, but are forced to hope that they will have allies or enemies are not forced to bother with this any more. They have both allies and enemies in the form of NPCs. From this point the only thing that is required is some work on the NPCs themselfs, to ballance them between being challenging force, but not too deadly for player who joined such thing.

Of all downsides to this idea I can see only one - server maintenence. I dunno how server can handle spawn of two huge NPC groups, but it can be implemented as a sort of medium NPC spawn with some time for their respawns.

Edit: There is another thing I've thought about, and that is the possibility that you can not make such thing without changing NPCs that spawn randomly across all systems. If someone might have an answer to that, please tell.

So what exactly is bad in that idea, that I might have missed?