Originally posted by VorteX:

Originally posted by Sono:

Good point, but i figured they'd just be warriors like the player, sent here for the same reason.

I feel like they should leave that role to actual players. A “lost boys” kind of faction would generate the usual rpg tropeholes, like 1- how come they haven’t conquered all of valheim already, and therefore: 2- why are you better than all of them combined?

It’d be a “Rickest Rick” kind of deal.

Well if you read those runestones you'll find that Astrid took 7 years to figure out you had to kill the forsaken but it was only till Odin must of thought "what the hell are you doing" and he wrote it out in stones on the gorund for her lol. That might explain why they haven't conquered valheim cause some people are like Astrid. And also you have an abundance of real players that don't go past swamps soooo yeah, does that answer why random npcs wouldn't have conquered valheim?

Originally posted by VorteX:

A few more mysterious oddjobs like Haldor would fit in i think (Swamp Lady? Smart Werewolf? Fuling Outcast?), but adding things like populated neutral villages would kind of diminish the tone of the game imho.
Valheim is a long- abandoned world, forgotten by mortals and most of the gods. You are like the loneliest human in the universe.

Seeing a bunch of civilians would feel as if chevy chase and his family rolled by in their ford wagon…

100% agreed.

Originally posted by Sono:

Good point, but i figured they'd just be warriors like the player, sent here for the same reason.

I feel like they should leave that role to actual players. A “lost boys” kind of faction would generate the usual rpg tropeholes, like 1- how come they haven’t conquered all of valheim already, and therefore: 2- why are you better than all of them combined?

It’d be a “Rickest Rick” kind of deal.

Maybe if they were halfway turned to draugr and could be recovered somehow - but that's just stealing Minecraft mechanics.

A few more mysterious oddjobs like Haldor would fit in i think (Swamp Lady? Smart Werewolf? Fuling Outcast?), but adding things like populated neutral villages would kind of diminish the tone of the game imho.
Valheim is a long- abandoned world, forgotten by mortals and most of the gods. You are like the loneliest human in the universe.

Seeing a bunch of civilians would feel as if chevy chase and his family rolled by in their ford wagon…

Originally posted by VorteX:

A few more mysterious oddjobs like Haldor would fit in i think (Swamp Lady? Smart Werewolf? Fuling Outcast?), but adding things like populated neutral villages would kind of diminish the tone of the game imho.
Valheim is a long- abandoned world, forgotten by mortals and most of the gods. You are like the loneliest human in the universe.

Seeing a bunch of civilians would feel as if chevy chase and his family rolled by in their ford wagon…

Good point, but i figured they'd just be warriors like the player, sent here for the same reason.

Originally posted by Sono:

Good point, but i figured they'd just be warriors like the player, sent here for the same reason.

Wouldn't that be more of an AI option for multiplayer party members? Fellow fallen warriors aren't usually happy to spend their entire existence tending one blast furnace.

News flash... game is full of Non Player Characters.... just not friendly ones.

So basically you want to fill the afterlife with zombies because every game has zombies?

Your character is not the only one, though. So I could definitely see fellow warrior NPCs being part of your team.

Yes, it would require a change of balance, but I think it would be worthwhile.

Just do the same like terraria. Some npcs that don't really do anything but maybe offer some specific aid that's not actually that helpful in general. It would make all those empty villages people build actually serve a purpose

they could add more static ones or maybe neutral barbarian outposts? Whom you could either lose or gain a good status with based on how you respond to them. Perks being a pad to crash at and some npc helpers who can aid you on travels. I guess it would just be like a couple different pre built wood forts with randomly named npcs, perhaps 4-12 of them, generating anywhere in the meadows, forest or mountains (maybe with neolithic, bronze and iron/black tiers, of which can be upgraded by giving supplies). But this sounds like it would happen more as a cool mod than anything.

@Sono:
I like your idea! This is definitely something IronGate could look into, IMHO.

No one knows. Gonna say probably not?

There is an npc trader, but that's it so far.

I hope so

No npc's we are here by the grace of Odin to do a job.

Go into the mountains and have a being hunted event. You’ll get over the lonely feeling

AFAIK plans for NPC's are scarce a this pont. You might want to try the LFG forums here or on the valheim Discord if you want to play with other people. This is of course if you are unable to convince friends or family to play.