just put a limit on the number of Npcs/type of Npcs:
say limit of 4.
now you can inhabit the entry room, medibay, controlroom and one other room.
or..
make one of those 4 into a patrolling guard/pet animal/ghost.
wouldn't tie up too many resources and the limit would make people think hard over placement.
.......
then all the devs need to do is port over the type options, and allow us to tie the Npcs to a location:
type Medical-random spawn male/female nurse or doctor
entry room- butler/receptionist/hologram greeter
control/power rooms- scientists or overalled technicians or either gender-randomly changes or set gender/type.
workshop- same as control/power rooms
patrolling Npc's- night watch person, police officer, pet dog(or wolf)/pet cat (house or lion/tiger/panther).... The main problem with a patrol would be getting stuck on geometry of not being able to find a path. Perhaps, instead of the "tie to map point" of the other Npc's a Patroling Npc could randomly shift from doorway to doorway every 15 minutes, and have a random path... thus allowing it to appear in allparts of a base with out the hassles of getting lost inside geometry.
Needless to say each Npc Model should be bought either as 1600+points for the pack or individually for 300-400 points, from the Paragon Market - the price reflecting the Dev time that would be needed in such content.
Also whether or not these would be personal base items or reuseable generic base items.. I amnot sure :/
I know a lot of people out there use the bases for storage, especially of they're build specific enhancements and other specialty items. I also know that most of us have MAXED the storage capacity of at least one base.
So I propose a new idea, with the complete lack of focus on reinstating the Base Raid feature, why not re-purpose the Vault pieces in bases to be storage specific, increasing our storage capacity? It would move the Salvage and Enhancement storage out of the workshops and into the Vault where it makes more sense. I know this is simply a stopgap solution as this storage will be filled by our packrat tendencies however it will give us some feeling of SOMETHING being done for our bases...
While your at it can we get NPCs in our bases, with pre-recorded lines... I am thinking a butler, or robot who greets everyone for example. Guards, our bases are VERY empty especially for those of us with a public service, or public building theme... ((for example, my base is for a PPD themed supergroup, I would love to have cops walking the halls... ))
"when i can savagely beat sheep while issuing ultimatums and torturing people, then i may go back into it" -vara nocturne
Not enough Evil...
I take it back NC SOFT is enough evil for anyone...