LE Repopulate

[DanteWrath]

Hello, to start I should say that I am aware that what I am suggesting would be a lot of work, however if it could be done it would be one of the most game-changing mods about.

On certain characters, particularly if you are playing someone evil, it is unavoidable that there will be some... Collateral damage during your endeavours.

The problem is that once these start to build up, the game can become rather empty. Shops close down indefinitely, houses become vacant and the streets become bare.

Currently there are only two solutions; install a mod to allow NPCs to respawn or install a mod to create a larger population.

However, neither are ideal.

Larger populations (Including additional vendors) add people who are out of place, with no homes or jobs and still suffer the effect of a slowly dying world, just at a slower rate. Respawning NPCs on the otherhand has the majorly immersion breaking side-effect of watching the dead return to life.

And that is where this suggestion begins.

The mod to begin with, would need the creation of a large number of npcs as if creating a population mod (However it is possible that you could gain permission to use NPCs added by an existing populations increasing mod).

However, this is where the truly unique part of the mod would come in.

Instead of having the NPCs placed into the world or spawning randomly, these NPCs would not exist in the game to begin with.

These NPCs would be tied in a random list to existing vanilla NPCs, and would serve to replace them should they die.

So for example if a shop owner is killed, after a week or so a new NPC will be spawned who will now live in the shop and sell the goods.

Likewise, should an NPC who lives in the city die, a short time later a new NPC will spawn in the city oh will take on their routine and live in their house.

You could even go as far as to add multiple NPCs to each list, so the NPC that replaces the dead vanilla counterpart would be randomly selected from a few, and could be replaced by those remaining on the list should he die.

I am aware that this request could be difficult to script, and would require a lot of time to be made well, however I think it would be worth it for such a revolutionary mod.

If any modders are interested, please let me know.

For non-modders, please offer your own thoughts, criticisms and any other input to help raise interest.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Edited January 21, 2013 by Dante Wrath