I’ve seen many NPCs sleeping. Both crew members and randoms out in the world(s). I’ve also seen crew members using the kitchen, but I’m not sure about other NPCs in that regard.
It’s kinda inconsistent.
Shop keepers are always 100% active at every hour. I can’t be a criminal if they’re always watching
Yeah I was just in “The Rock” and the ranger I needed to talk to was in bed. I woke his ass up just like in Skyrim and Oblivion lol. “Hey wake up, I finished that thing, gimme my money!”
Same I went to sleep in my captains bed, Sam and Sarah at different times where using it which meant I had to go sleep in the peasant quarters. I’ve also seen all of them sitting at a table presumably “eating” by themselves or in pairs since there was food on the table. 1 time Ioaded into my ship to see everyone in the mess hall staring at me children of the corn style, thought there was about to be a mutiny. Lastly I periodically see them at select work stations. One of Barrett’s fav spots was in my workshop fiddling with the research console. I’ve also seen Sarah “interact” with the weapons table or seen any I’ve assigned as crew sit down at crew stations/consoles around my ship
What, you think these are Oblivion NPCs with radiant AI?
It would be nice if they at least closed up shop at night, or swapped out clerks like the general store merchant in Diamond City.
I just want my pixels to have a full belly and a good night’s sleep!
Sorry, best we can do is split the game into DLCs and several editions to extort more money out of people, all while outsourcing the game to nearly every other game company in the world and expect you to whip out $1,000+ for a GPU that may or may not run the game at 60 GPS at 1080p without fake resolutions and frames; also please buy premium and support our small indie studio.
Jokes aside, loving the game, just feeling pissy over the predatory ways the gaming industry has embraced in the last several years.
I suspect it has something to do with the complexity of extraterrestrial time tracking. How long should they sleep? Local time or UT? Do human sleep cycles eventually sync with their planet? Should shops close during the day if people sleep on a UT schedule? Bah. Nobody gets to sleep.
NPCs appear to operate according to the local time of the cell they’re in. So they sleep on UT in your ship in space and Jemison time (local hour == 125 UT minutes) in the Lodge. The game doesn’t appear to have any issue with this whatsoever.
Vendors, and many quest-related NPCs never seem to sleep or eat. It looks like some of this was done to decrease player frustration. Now we never have to wait for shops to open and we never have to worry if we arrived to confront a corporate exec while they’re out or sleeping. It simplifies the work the designers have to do too. They could have designed around this, but might have considered it a low priority to have night-shift workers or different kiosk rules.
Meanwhile the members of Constellation use their bedrooms (except Cora who seems to wander the basement at night), and that guy living on disability in Cydonia keeps going to back to bed without asking me for the next book. Muria from the GalBank lobby in New Atlantis likes to go sit at the outdoor TerraBrew all night and have a non-conversation with the diplomat lady.
It is all that damn Terrabrew.
Keeps em going 24/7.
Now I want to check on everyone who drinks Tranquilitea to see if they are the only NPCs that sleep.
Sorry, that’s 2006 tech. It was too long ago, they just kinda…forgot.
they forgot in skyrim? where people slept and ate?
Because in the future we have transcended the need for food and sleep
They’re secretly all terrormorphs. Who live off coffee.
They’ve gotten lazier and lazier with the schedule system since Oblivion first introduced it. Fallout 4 has the same problems with tons of NPCs not even having the basic “eat food” times.
Starfield also adds tons of dynamically generated NPCs for the crowds. I doubt those would have a schedule, as it seems an entirely separate system from how they would dynamically spawn unnamed guards and things. But it’s also weird how shops run by humans are open 24/7 and the store owner doesn’t eat, sleep or go to the bathroom. 😬
It could be explained away with future science in-game, but it’s not.
