Town guards/NPCs not respawning due owning buildings in towns/cities
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 4:55 am
Hi, relatively new player here. I brought this up in the Steam bugs forum, so I already vetted with more experienced users that my bug can be replicated (I shared my save file with someone).
Town guards and whatever NPCs might be set to respawn are not respawning in my game. I know they don't respawn if you're in a town constantly, although making all your characters leave for a few days is really not a big deal. There's two issues this brings up:
1) Towns like Mongrel and Shark are dogmeat to their relentless invaders. My Mongrel east gate has long been gone, and shopkeepers are getting killed because they run out and fight. I am full-time at Squin, and my east gate is down to 2 guards as well. In the case of Mongrel, I left for over 30 game days and the guards had not replenished their numbers. I've left Squin for a good 10 days (went to fetch Agnu, which required my whole army, since I wanted a straight up fistfight with Screamer the False and their minions), and the guards didn't respawn. The Hub, where I always find myself due to its geographic location, has the same issue.
2) Of more concern is that, according to one user, having a building keeps a town loaded (I don't know if this is true, but at least owning the building is preventing respawning). Does this mean that if you own a building in a town, you're essentially dragging down your game's performance? I don't really know the implications. I own a single shack in multiple cities, although thankfully not more than 5 total, if I remember correctly.
At any rate, I'm glad to share my save file if anyone wants to see what I'm talking about, as other users have confirmed what's going on in my game. And in case anyone asks, since it'll be the first question: I do not have any mods. Zero mods. Not even a small one. I am subscribed to a few, and none are loaded because I am on my maiden "vanilla" playthrough.
Town guards and whatever NPCs might be set to respawn are not respawning in my game. I know they don't respawn if you're in a town constantly, although making all your characters leave for a few days is really not a big deal. There's two issues this brings up:
1) Towns like Mongrel and Shark are dogmeat to their relentless invaders. My Mongrel east gate has long been gone, and shopkeepers are getting killed because they run out and fight. I am full-time at Squin, and my east gate is down to 2 guards as well. In the case of Mongrel, I left for over 30 game days and the guards had not replenished their numbers. I've left Squin for a good 10 days (went to fetch Agnu, which required my whole army, since I wanted a straight up fistfight with Screamer the False and their minions), and the guards didn't respawn. The Hub, where I always find myself due to its geographic location, has the same issue.
2) Of more concern is that, according to one user, having a building keeps a town loaded (I don't know if this is true, but at least owning the building is preventing respawning). Does this mean that if you own a building in a town, you're essentially dragging down your game's performance? I don't really know the implications. I own a single shack in multiple cities, although thankfully not more than 5 total, if I remember correctly.
At any rate, I'm glad to share my save file if anyone wants to see what I'm talking about, as other users have confirmed what's going on in my game. And in case anyone asks, since it'll be the first question: I do not have any mods. Zero mods. Not even a small one. I am subscribed to a few, and none are loaded because I am on my maiden "vanilla" playthrough.