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Originally Posted by Loriel
With the right amount of NPC programming we can have awesome ingame 3d engines and AIs that replace all staff and produce awesome new content and write new scripts themselves!
This, in itself, is not a convincing argument. The amount of programming is not the question, but rather the finesse and design required.
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It's called a generalization. Graal itself would not exist if 3D engines and AI advanced so much. Much less any other current MMORPG. We'd be playing some sort of holographic-virtual-reality-real-life-simulator!
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Why do we have people in charge of things and not NPCs? Why are people necessary over programmed behaviour? Certainly companies would be run more efficiently if they were managed by computers and not people, and a computer teaching children is way awesomer than an actual teacher. And if the parliament was replaced by a deterministic program, there would be way less chaos in politics! While we are at it, let's replace Moonie with a php script that filters illegal posts before they are even posted!
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You are totally taking this out of the context of a game and applying it to real life scenarios. Which isn't the case here... we're talking about NPC kings not politicians and the senate.
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Originally Posted by Loriel
The NPC king, however, will fail to make certain important decisions, because it lacks the ability to even consider them, which is going to be as fatal as a player king making the wrong decisions. Both can be counteracted by having staff take over their tasks and overriding their decisions, but that makes the kingdom concept way less interesting.
In a way, it is more damaging because the NPC king lacks the ability to advance the development of his kingdom, and is limited to fairly simple decisions that are based on actual simple game mechanics.
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Who is to say Konidias won't be able to intervene and add more commands when the appropriate time comes? We don't even know the foundation which is being layed out for kingdoms, we're simply being skeptical. Give it a chance, mang. I'm sure kingdom members will have the ability to direct the kingdom in a
good or
bad direction.
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This discussion is not about the necessity of kingdoms. Whether we need any is beyond its scope, and everybody agrees that they need to be done right. Consider making a separate thread for this question.
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Agreed.