In one of the most recent Dev Logs Josh unveiled the idea of making the worker NPC's androids or less than human level robots in order to avoid moral dilemmas revolving around Human Trafficking and Slavery I'm guessing. I REALLY DON'T LIKE THAT. at least not as the only way to go. Limit Theory will be a vast and wonderful place, but with so few humans it will feel very lonely. If the majority of NPC's are mindless drones instead of human workers it will just feel so.... empty. and sterile. I know it seems kind of nit-picky but I believe that it is important to keep this universe saturated with humans instead of just robots, even if they can't act on their own or talk to you. Knowing your faction/fleet/group or whatever is more than cold mindless drones will add an element of immersion and interest that is important! I want to feel the significance of having fleets and sending ships off to war- I want to feel like I have a connection to my NPC's. I believe that with some creative thinking a Hire/fire or Morale aspect can be added to govern the addition and subtraction of units who are removed or leave your employ, which would avoid slavery concerns. If anybody else agrees that LT should be filled, or should at least be understood to be filled, with humans then sound off in a reply and work to let Josh know that some of his fans would like to see a natural and organic group of underlings who would help us in our LT universes.
To be clear I don't think Josh should change his NPC worker/thinker construction. I just would rather they weren't all designated as robots just because they are low level AI. Why can't our low level AI be a man called John instead of a Robot?v
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Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:53 pm
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SAVE THE HUMANS!!
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