Inconsequential NPCs
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By all accounts, adding NPCs and dialogue scenes to Skyrim would enhance the game's social atmosphere. Designed to be medium and unobtrusive to maximize compatibility with large load orders.
Do you chat with everyone you see on public transportation? Asking people you meet on the street their names and occupations? Why are almost all of Skyrim's unique NPCs willing to stop whatever they're doing just to waste precious time answering the Dragonborn's stupid questions when they probably have better things to do and more important places to be. For that matter, where is everyone in Skyrim? Why is the entire country less populated than the local pub on a Saturday night?
The purpose of "Inconsequential NPCs" is to add more NPCs to Skyrim in an unobtrusive way, allowing them to blend into the social fabric of the immersive land. Most "irrelevant NPCs" don't care whether your character is a dragon or not. They really don't want to talk to you (but they all do), so most of them don't have much to say to you (and the ones that do, generally don't have anything nice to say). They won't ask you to "give this..." or "get that..." and they won't tell you their life story because they just don't want to know you. You cannot improve your relationship with them because you are as irrelevant as they are. They won't give up everything they did to become your follower (at least, not for free). They are so uninterested in you that the idea of marriage is completely ridiculous to them. All they want is to run their business and cope with their daily lives.
But these aren't just completely "random" NPCs. They are all "unique" and designed to fill "gaps" in Skyrim's various social settings. How many times have you entered a specific location in Skyrim, expecting to find certain "types" of people wandering the area, only to be greeted by a few NPCs or empty rooms? Just like the lighting modes are designed to subtly enhance the "visual atmosphere" of the game, the "anachronistic NPCs" are designed to enhance the 'social atmosphere'. Please allow me to explain with examples....
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