Discovery 4.86 Development: Looking for modellers, system updating status

[Decerebrated.Individual]

Uh...

May be a gravedig, but it is kinda the appropriate place for sometihng which I also jsut pmed to Igiss (who knows if he reads pms):

Hello,

I dont know if you are awayre of it, but the current NPC populations have been causing people a lot of grief.

The main problem is that when server populations goes down, the NPCs become very annoying, by blocking gates, bumping you out of lanes, having 12 pirates shooting you even in places where lawfuls should have the upper hand (roght next to lawful bases).

Its been brought up countless times, but nothing ever happened, mainly because people said it would be too much work to change NPCs everywhere.

So, I offer to do the following:

-Remove all NPCs near a station that is hostile to them.
-Remove all NPCs near a gate that is hostile to them.
-Remove NPCs in large open areas where they dont have a very good reason to be. For example, in Tau 23, remove all Outcasts and IMG and BMM, except the Outcasts near Cali base, IMG near Java, BMM near the gate construction site.
-During the removals, I would make sure that no NPC faction is removed entirely from a system they are in. I would just restrain them to places where one would most likely expect to find them, like near their bases, or for pirates in nebulas an so on.
-I would also remove them in places where they seem "not right". For example I would remove Outcasts distrupting lanes and pirating (asing to drop cargo) in liberty, but not Lanehackers or Rogues.

That should considerably reduce annoyance and server lag to randomly shooting annoying useless NPCs.

I know its a lot of work. Maybe I wont finish all systems, but doing that in the most important systems will already be a significant improvement.

The reduction of the "annoying abd useless" NPCs will automatically raise the spawning of "usefull" NPCs, for example in guard systems or places where you would actually expect them to be, like near their own bases.


So... do I get a green light to do that?