Why arnt there alotta people on the strip?

In every video ive seen so far theres hardly nobody on the strip; other then some NCR troopers/robcops and strippers dancing in a foutain.

I thought the strip was supposed to be the main attraction of new vegas? if so.. where the hell is everybody!?

At home playing New Vegas on the Xbox?

Same goes with inside the casinos. They seem practically deserted.
Although, that doesn't mean I want a billion 'New Vegas Residents' wandering the streets and filling up casinos. I just want plenty of NPCs that have unique dialogue, names and personalities.

Thats why im not too enthused about new vegas the city.

I mean if the devs are gonna commit themselves to creating a big city then theyre gonna need alotta people to get the party going otherwise im siding with legion and where gonna [censored] and pillage the town romanian style.

There's a limit for how many NPCs the computer can take appearing... Not to mentiont he work it'd take to palce tons and tons of unique NPCs on the street everywhere.

That said, this IS a post-apocalyptic world - people are few in numbers no matter where you go...

Blame the engine.

Remember, it is a post-apocalyptic wasteland where nerally every person or animal you see will try an kill you.... Not the safest place to be wandering around...

I dont care if its only 10 people

so long as they respawn and i can kill em again ill be happy

same goes for the factions

Yeah it's really lame lol. I don't want it like tourist full, but a freakin decent number since nothing devastatingly bad has happened to the city....plus people would be moving there due to the fact it has power and stuff.

yeah i agree, i mean its not like now were theres thousands of people, as like in new vagas theres probably less than 3/4 of that in the us, so there not gonna be many people living in NV.

This.

Fallout 3 didn't exactly have a whole lot of people in one place, either. Canterbury Commons (think that's the name) was supposed to be some sort of trading hub and it's population 5 or so.

The PC can probably handle a lot more NPCs but the console versions would choke up and die. Can't really have that since the console sells more than PC.

No idea if its only because of the engine but I presume if your computer can handle it then I'm sure someone can mod more peds in.

Which is disappointing. Literally 75% of the reason I'm excited about the city itself is the fact that it could (and in my view should) have many, many, many NPCs to talk to.

*pats, pats*. Give it 5-10 more years and it might just be possible .

:(
In that time (10 or so years) we might actually get word that Bethesda have started to actually make progress on the fifth Elder Scrolls! Might.
Thanks for the sympathy.

Yep

megaton had a decent amount of peeps. so did the pitt

We've already gone through this, and in short, to put it in the words of Mr. Burke 'Sacrifices for a nobler future'

In 5-10 years we might be going fallout in virtual reality :fallout:

Oblivion had a lot of instances where dozens of people were in the same cell at once, usually in the cities. Even Megaton had a reasonable amount of people outside at once. I can't think of a reason why New Vegas couldn't do it. It could possibly be due to all the glitz and glamor of the city, it may be hogging up too many resources. :shrug:

I do agree though that, from what we've seen in the videos, it looks absolutely deserted. It's almost as if the city was built for a populace triple the size of what it is. Obviously being a pre-war city that makes sense, but it still doesn't feel right having such empty streets. Who knows, when we actually play the game it may feel much less deserted than the videos led us to believe. I sure hope that's the case, anyway.

i hope they fixed the bug where you can't get your weapons back, that was embarrassing.

A. That was Alpha Phase, so it was a diamond in the rough

B. He probably forgot to get the weapons back.

Erm. If someone needs a certain passport or to have a lot of caps (2,000 minimum, I believe) just to enter the strip, then shouldn't The Strip be somewhat deserted?

I mean, I figure not many folks in this post-apocalyptic world have a lot of money or can obtain a passport because either they aren't special enough or they've got a bad reputation for stealing, murdering, etc. which you wouldn't want in a fancy place with fancy, high roller consumers. Would you?

So.. the somewhat deserted feel makes sense to me.

I'm tired of the engine crap. Oblivion handled many npcs just fine. I do not ever remember going "where is everybody?" while walking around the towns in Oblivion. If the strip really needs to be optimized that much, then simply split it into several different chambers.

:thumbsdown: