Guild Wars 2

They must be non-combatant of course. No karma or gold reward.

Rewards could go as far as:
Alcohol, Costume Pieces, Tonics, any type of consumable etc. Non-tradable of course so people don’t grind them.

Its just every time I go in one of the cities such as the Grove or Divinity, there is nothing going on. NPCs are just walking around doing nothing and talking in loops.

Put some life into the cities. The Halloween event , and the Lost Shores event were a great example of inner city DEs.

I’d like to see some occasional combative events in major cities that’s related to surrounding events. Say that centaurs claim all the land surrounding a city, it would then build up an offensive to raid the main city. Of course it should never be really possible for the city to be fully captured. Just something fun to participate in that makes it feel alive and temporarily kills off a few unimportant npcs.

A fun scenario of a city event could be:

Find the pickpocket-
City spawns multiple NPCs with the name hooligan or shady resident and the players have to track down the ones that have stolen goods and return them to the owner.

Shortage of alcohol in pubs-
Players must scrounge around the city that are rarely visited for kegs or yeast and barley.

Call to arms-
The city is under attack and some of the guards are not willing to defend the city. Players must persuade or duel them to get them to fight.

The cities really need more life in them.