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Alpha-1 NPCs.

Alpha-1 arachnid NPC by Jessica Jennings.

• NPCs come and go as required by game mechanics, such as node progression.

• Players will not be able to kill non-combat NPCs such as quest givers and vendors.

We may have some story arcs down the line where you're killing some well-known NPCs, but we got to build it up: we got to make you either love them or hate them before you get to that point. – Margaret Krohn

• During sieges or monster coin events, non-combat NPCs may despawn. If their service buildings are damaged or destroyed by the siege or event they may not respawn until their buildings are repaired or rebuilt.

During sieges or during monster events those venders, the non-combat NPCs, are usually provided for through a particular building type, unless they're general NPCs. If they're general NPCs currently, I think what we're doing is we're despawning them if they're not combat-oriented and if they are a service building like a constructible, if that building becomes damaged, then the NPC is disabled post the event, or post the siege until the building is repaired; but they're not present to be killed as part of the siege event. If they're a combat NPC, such as a mercenary or like a captain of the guard whatever: they're present, they can be killed and they have ramifications for doing so. – Steven Sharif

• Some NPC movements and behaviors are dictated by time of day or other rotational cycle, others will be static.

Where we place the NPC rotations that are relevant- those would be rotations that exist perhaps within an hour, not so much within a day so-to-speak. So there might be five minutes of some changing of an organization's acolytes in a temple or something; and that might be because obviously there's a quest related to that rotation. – Steven Sharif

• NPCs will behave differently based on a player's reputation. Otherwise, branching dialog trees are not currently planned for NPC interactions.

Q: Can you influence NPCs or mobs when interacting with them by using your knowledge of their unique personalities/routines/lore or general knowledge of the world state?

A: We haven't planned for any type of branching dialogue personalities that give insight to those types of things and I don't believe that's planned for our narrative design, no. There is however some potential faction-based reputations that can be had and those reputations might send the NPCs down different behavior trees; and that is something that is incorporated. But if I understand the question correctly it's more along the lines of catering specific dialogue responses that will send down different dialogue branches and that's not planned. – Steven Sharif

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