Re: Improved NPC AI
Well, there is grinding and there is grinding. At the moment I am grinding towards a jet in war thunder. Except what I am really doing is learning to fly a bunch of planes against real players who are often more experienced/better pilots than me. In the higher tiers, in the realistic battles mode, every kill feels like an achievement. There the "grind" is hard.
Ok, so war thunder it's not an mmo but the mmo market has been stale for years and it's only a matter of time before someone puts two and two together and makes an mmo where the grind is enjoyable and challenging.
Like Cassius said, in perp (like most other mmos) the grind is a means to an end and is just about efficiency.
Weird thing is grinding in firefall makes me want to kill myself. Grinding in defiance is actually quite fun. The way in which you do it is fairly identical in both games and I'm trying to work out why I like one but not the other. Maybe because i like shooting people better than I do monsters or some shizzle.
I never liked ratting in perp before the bug but I dont mind after. Its quite relaxing like mining.