NPC population control

[Tenacity]

Ok, this has really been getting on my nerves ever since I started playing my Order character.

Right now, you cant sit next to toledo/isis for more than 30 seconds without npc's showing up, be they bounty hunters or nomads. They show up continously in groups of 4+, often both factions attack at the same time and they always target players over order npc's or each other.

So what you're left with is swarms of npc fighters around toledo that hound the order players there CONSTANTLY. What's even worse is, every time I see a smuggler or hostile player moving through the system (if I even notice them through the two-dozen red contacts in my scanner window), I cant go to cruise to pursue the player because the bounty hunter NPC's spam cruise disruptors like there's no tomorrow.

Now, I know the npcs are there to liven up the environment when player activity is lacking... but there's just too many of them in the system - and it's very similar in omicron delta at the moment.

All I'm asking is that the spawning frequency of NPC's in these systems be lowered, or removed entirely from the area immediately around toledo/isis.

Honestly, why would a trio of bounty hunters in FIGHTERS attack a battleship and hostile planet? It'd be suicide, and it usually ends up that way for them. The only purpose those npc's serve is to annoy the order players trying to stop traffic from going through our space.

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