Useful NPC Jobs on Ships and Bases - Guards, Mining, Repair and Logistics
Beyond combat encounters, please give friendly NPCs practical jobs within player-built ships and stations. Assignable roles could include guarding passages and rooms, manning defense positions, extracting resources, repairing damaged equipment and transporting cargo between designated locations.
An NPC should interact meaningfully with actual facilities or stations, navigate multi-room interiors and work at an assigned post. Experience earned on the job should affect effectiveness. For example, repair specialists could become more efficient through repair work, while miners improve through mining.
These are options for crewed engineering gameplay, not a request to remove script-driven automation, AI blocks or programmable blocks. Human players should still be able to design entirely automated systems if they prefer.
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I have developed another part of this overall crew concept: reputation with several factions, crew convictions, mission refusal, reassignment, possible resignation, and the difference between a captain's real actions and what the crew actually knows. Civilian workers and specialists would thus be more than assigned workstations. Full proposal: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57666-faction-reputation-npc-crew-loyalty-ethics-and-meaningful-mission-consequences
Other connected ideas:
- Recruitment and experience: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57380-recruitable-npc-crew-with-individual-skills-and-experience
- Remote NPC pilots and mothership drones: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57382-npc-remote-pilots-operating-drones-from-a-mothership
- NPC-operated gun stations: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57383-npc-operated-gun-stations-and-skill-based-weapon-performance
- Physical pilots, boarding and capture: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/45667-human-npcs#comment-119725
I have developed another part of this overall crew concept: reputation with several factions, crew convictions, mission refusal, reassignment, possible resignation, and the difference between a captain's real actions and what the crew actually knows. Civilian workers and specialists would thus be more than assigned workstations. Full proposal: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57666-faction-reputation-npc-crew-loyalty-ethics-and-meaningful-mission-consequences
Other connected ideas:
- Recruitment and experience: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57380-recruitable-npc-crew-with-individual-skills-and-experience
- Remote NPC pilots and mothership drones: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57382-npc-remote-pilots-operating-drones-from-a-mothership
- NPC-operated gun stations: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/57383-npc-operated-gun-stations-and-skill-based-weapon-performance
- Physical pilots, boarding and capture: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/topic/45667-human-npcs#comment-119725
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