After reading the latest road map that started talking about NPC overhaul. I wanted to ask. Are there any new plans to adding things like NPC followers to the game? I would love to have a flight crew or a base crew. No I am not talking about the cardboard cutouts that you can buy from venders. NPC's like: Farmers. Guards. Commanders Captains Pilots Sergeants or squad leaders.- That can lead small groups of NPC's in battle for the player. Dr's and nurses. Restaurant workers ' Engineers Flight crew Base crew Followers. I would love to see this in the game please and thanks.
From what I have read on the roadmap it looks like they will be looking at the enemy NPC AI. I doubt they will add functionality to our NPC's like you have listed but it would be great if they did.
I do concur - we've had decorative NPC's for quite some time, and it would be grand for them to gain some function as well. Tactical Officers that improve weapon turret performance. Pilots that could operate vehicles Guards that actually Guard an area. Most of this could be accomplished "behind the scenes" with some simple coding (If (Tactical Officer) present Than (add +10% to turret accuracy) and (add 10% to turret tracking speed)) and we have instant functionality. Making security officers and pilots functional would be a much more complex matter, as actually making them navigate terrain, especially terrain that can be modified, is far more challenging, which means far more time-consuming. Certainly not out of the realm of possible, but far more complex.
