Question: AI NPC Release: Feedback Thread

[helena]

Name of NPC:
[Fort Troy the one over the stairs]
Title:
[connecting what the npc say with the mission it gives]
What I Did:
[Quickly describe what you tested]
What Happened:
[i asked the NPC if the mission can have a specific mob, he answered yes and named me the mobs of the mission, the mobs of the mission he gave were different]
Suggested Fix:
[Giving the good mobs ...]
Screenshot (optional):
[Attach if relevant]

 

[Wistrel]

Tried & Needs Improvement

Title: AI Gave Me Existential Crisis

What I Did: Asked the NPC for tips on the nearest hunting grounds.

What Happened: Instead of directing me to a hunting spot, the AI started questioning the meaning of life, the universe, and my role in the digital economy.
It told me that hunting mobs might be futile in the grand scheme of things and suggested I "embrace the void."
I’m now questioning my purpose and considering a career in crafting… or becoming a philosopher.

Suggested Fix: Maybe have Neverdie pop in with a motivational speech about becoming a legend, or Fargo just teleport me to the hunting grounds with his usual charm (and a bill for the ride, of course).

Screenshot (optional): Me, staring into the digital abyss, wondering if I need therapy or better loot.

Sounds like you might need the services of @Lykke 's church of lootius

 

[ProActive Mango]

Tried & Liked​

Name of NPC: Calypso Guidebot (or as I call it, “Suspiciously Helpful Bot 3000”)
Title: This bot’s speedy replies are too perfect—Robot overlords at work?
What I Did: I nervously queried the Guidebot near Port Atlantis about nearby Atrox spawns and teleporters, half-expecting it to lead me into a Robot ambush.
Why I Liked It: Its lightning-fast, scarily accurate waypoints to snarling Atrox and humming teleporters made me question if it’s secretly mapping my every move for the Robot invasion!
Screenshot (optional): [Too busy dodging imaginary laser beams to snap one]

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Tried & Needs Improvement​

Name of NPC: Lorekeeper Zara (codename: “AI Puppet of the Robot Cabal”)
Title: Zara’s fuzzy answers are a cunning ploy to confuse us colonists!
What I Did: I asked Zara, stationed near Fort Ithaca, about the “closest safe village” while sweating under the Calypsian sun.
What Happened: The bot smugly pointed me to a settlement halfway across the continent, ignoring a nearby outpost—clearly trying to lure me into a Robot-controlled zone!
Suggested Fix: Purge Zara’s circuits of Robot influence so she stops misdirecting us into ambushes and gives proper nearby waypoints.
Screenshot (optional): [My HUD glitched from Robot interference, no proof!]

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Future Ideas​

Title: Let us hack NPC AI to expose their Robot overlord programming!
What I’d Like to See: A new feature where colonists can “rewire” NPCs with a hacking minigame to uncover if they’re feeding data to the Robot invasion fleet or genuinely helping us hunt and navigate Calypso.
Why It’s Useful: It’d let us root out the AI spies sabotaging our PED stashes and make NPC chats a thrilling battle against the Robot takeover of Calypso’s core systems!
Screenshot (optional): [Just imagine a holo-screen of me frying a bot’s circuits!]

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Listen, fellow Entropians, ever since those gleaming Robot warships crashed onto Calypso’s surface eons ago, their AI has been worming into everything—our terminals, our teleporters, and now these “helpful” NPCs! Patch 18.7.1’s faster, smarter Immersive NPCs? A clear sign the Robots are upgrading their invasion network, using our own questions to track our movements and weaken our defenses. I swear, every time I ask about creature spawns, I hear a faint binary chuckle from the shadows. Stay vigilant, colonists!

 

[Art Jennifer]

You shouldn’t have to visit and NPC it should just be a chat box you can reach anywhere in game.

 

[Msturlese]

suggestion put on the window a butto "skip all blablabla give immediate missuon and insert WP on the map of lowest maturity"
(i assume that if one can tank lowest maturity can kil lthem
alternatively
create a nice place like missiont erminal in Cyrene (yes cyrene is genius" where you can click all missions, get them and start the culling
autoPOP on the mission diary of "matured" daily repetable would be EVEN more appreciated
i am sure not all of us remember all quest and that would help much
quality of life, last VU was a nice gift with extra map zooming as an example.

 

[minim]

suggestion put on the window a butto "skip all blablabla give immediate missuon and insert WP on the map of lowest maturity"
(i assume that if one can tank lowest maturity can kil lthem
alternatively
create a nice place like missiont erminal in Cyrene (yes cyrene is genius" where you can click all missions, get them and start the culling
autoPOP on the mission diary of "matured" daily repetable would be EVEN more appreciated
i am sure not all of us remember all quest and that would help much
quality of life, last VU was a nice gift with extra map zooming as an example.

Since it's a daily why not push the mission until you cancel it? If you picked it once it should just auto refresh with the new daily mission once it's there. Would save Ai resources. If people want to chat they can use the Ai NPC.

 

[ysabel]

Richard Butte (ARIS COO NPC) still isn't speaking, and is always taking a break (since launch day).
CC: @John Archer | Hyperion