They should have those groups spawn and then have a short period (1min max) where they will not aggress unless fired upon. Deaths by failure/pvp, sweet. Death by random algorithms/NPC lottery, not so sweet.

remember, someone asked for dropship or random entry point when teleporting to beta island.
imagine a group of player would spawn ontop of you...

The current form of roaming 'Grand Observers' works exactly like this, appearing at a random place, random time and thus can cross an Agent's way.

Nothing to say against that, but the game mechanic behind it should have some kind of timer for movement, attacking and can be attacked after they spawned.

The way i experienced it, gives me the impression of an semiprofessional / not finished / not well-reasoned implementation.

Because of....?

- to have an own opinion / feeling about 0.01% of game content not beeing well implemented?

-  unworthy touching and heretically writing about the holy golden sheep of Perpetuum ( or at least 0.01% of it)?

Its so dreary and senseless....i can hardly believe that i made a post  (and even wrote replies).

NPC's spawning on your face should happen at the end of the fight, not the beginning... all the porn says so.

It is unfortunate they can randomly spawn on top of players.  That doesn't make a lot of sense unless it's mean to mimic a teleporter.  I always thought that the roaming mobs spawned at random locations (preferrably out of sight of players) and then wandered about in search of trouble. 

It seems that randomly spawning the roamers somewhere away from players (1 km) wouldn't take a lot of effort (in general anyway--obviously the entire path of the roam could be blanketed with players in which case somebody's going to die when they spawn.)   Is the roaming spawn meant to mimic a teleport?

At the very least, the time delay after spawning and before aggressing seems like a reasonable idea.