Crazy NPC AI?

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I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else?

I overheard some thugs kill a guy (there was some side plot going on I
think). Ever since then these thugs keep spawning and chasing people
around, the Calista girls keep discovering bodies or blood and running
around screaming for guards, the guards keep chasing the thugs. It seems
like for every dead NPC two respawn.

Of course when any of them find me sulking in the shadows the guards and
thugs attack me.

Is this the much vaunted improved AI? Is there something to tweak in one
of the ini files to tone this respawning down?

I thought I started the whole mess so I restarted and was very careful not
to kill or blackjack anyone but it still happens.

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Michael Cecil
http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

 

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In message <6ve1c0llv6nbhlrk5fmnffqufcgjo331jv@4ax.com>, Michael Cecil
<macecil@comcast.net> writes
>I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else?
>
>I overheard some thugs kill a guy (there was some side plot going on I
>think). Ever since then these thugs keep spawning and chasing people
>around, the Calista girls keep discovering bodies or blood and running
>around screaming for guards, the guards keep chasing the thugs. It seems
>like for every dead NPC two respawn.
>
>Of course when any of them find me sulking in the shadows the guards and
>thugs attack me.
>
I sat it out on a balcony until it all calmed down.

I think it's the fake Garret you heard contracting to steal the gold
dagger. A guy without much finesse, who leave the bodies lying around...

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Terry Pratchett

 

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"Terry Pratchett" <tpratchett@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:gOOdjTF+sL2AFAOi@unseen.demon.co.uk...
> In message <6ve1c0llv6nbhlrk5fmnffqufcgjo331jv@4ax.com>, Michael Cecil
> <macecil@comcast.net> writes
> >I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else?
> >
> >I overheard some thugs kill a guy (there was some side plot going on I
> >think). Ever since then these thugs keep spawning and chasing people
> >around, the Calista girls keep discovering bodies or blood and running
> >around screaming for guards, the guards keep chasing the thugs. It seems
> >like for every dead NPC two respawn.
> >
> >Of course when any of them find me sulking in the shadows the guards and
> >thugs attack me.
> >
> I sat it out on a balcony until it all calmed down.
>
> I think it's the fake Garret you heard contracting to steal the gold
> dagger. A guy without much finesse, who leave the bodies lying around...
>
> --
> Terry Pratchett

I didn't know what was happening at first but once I cottoned on to fake
Garrett I found all this highly amusing. Just sitting in the dark watching.
And found some loot when the coast was clear.

Mary