Board Thread:Suggestions Forum/@comment-25859803-20150205193401

A while back, the almighty Mevans posted a blog asking for people to say what they thought would add more depth to the game and achieve more of the feel Tolkien's Middle Earth had. What I, Sinth and many others suggested was better npc interaction. It is the characters that make a story great and the interactions with everyday living people. As a grey wizard who must not be named said "Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay... small acts of kindness and love." This mod is missing the ordinary folk. Mevans has accomplished many things, he can do this, and when he makes a way to have realistic conversations with npcs, all of middle earth will benefit.

I reccomend looking at the custom npcs mod and drawing inspiration from it. Having menus which come up and choosing things to say to the npc and it reply back in a fairly logical conversation. An option for asking "Is there anything I can do for you?" and the npc might say "No" or might give you a mini-quest. A dwarf could say "How fair you swordoflight2" and you could reply "I'm having a great day myself, you master dwarf?" You could have the option for insulting them, decreasing alignment, or praising them, increasing alignment. That might seem op but you would have to be nice to them (or evil) a while till you gain alignment. An evil conversation would be something like, "How many men have you killed today swordoflight2?"

An option provided, "Enough to feast on the journey here."

He replies, "Enough for me to take some"

Option given along with run away (which would decrease alignment) "Enough to give myself strength to tear you limb from limb"

"Hmpf, I like your style" *+1 alignment* sometimes the orc would take the reply as a challenge and attack.

There would be options of other things to say that would not give someone alignment, so it would be like a maze of dialog, right and wrong choices that would lead to desirable or undesireable things. Just picture it, that orc would go to a camp and tell other orcs about the evil swordoflight2 who threatened as mighty an orc as himself, word would spread and you would be respected more in that faction.

Just picture Sims interactions and that's what it would be like. It is in fact possible in minecraft because: #1 Noppes did it with custom npcs and #2 Mevans is better than noppes (sorry Noppes). I hope Mevans will see this as a sort of challenge for himself, as the new generation and roads were, and this sort of thing will be added in a future update (even far future, I can wait). Besides, if a certain grey wizard belives in the common folk, every lotr fan should to. Thanks for reading and tell me below conversations that could occur, constructive criticism, and ideas relating to this. 