vandigeth

I rather think NPCs won't arrive until the game is pretty much feature complete. They have to code NPCs such that they interact with all intended features and they can't know that until they're done adding new features.
 
It's incredibly complicated to write an AI in the first place; it's a 5x more complicated to add new features in later and have them work properly with everything else. Much easier to know what features NPCs will need to interact with then code them accordingly; not add NPCs then later add all the features they'll need to use and code for them later.

Should get the garbage bags and make a few rain collector barrels. Once they're out, say 5 of them (overkill unless you're farming), drinking water becomes a non-issue.

I rather think NPCs won't arrive until the game is pretty much feature complete. They have to code NPCs such that they interact with all intended features and they can't know that until they're done adding new features.
 
It's incredibly complicated to write an AI in the first place; it's a 5x more complicated to add new features in later and have them work properly with everything else. Much easier to know what features NPCs will need to interact with then code them accordingly; not add NPCs then later add all the features they'll need to use and code for them later.