Guild Wars 2

No doubt you have seen it – two NPC’s locked in a fight to the death between each other, regardless of player interaction as you walk by, and I got to wonderig if this is constant even if no player ever sees them. Will the AI/game/NPC’s fight constantly or is it only triggered when a player is in view?

I wonder because some of the things I have seen…
A Risen Brute, attacking a rabbit. Will the rabbit die everytime it spawns?
Two children in a snowball fight, both children threw the snowballs at the same time, knocked each other down, stood up, threw again, repeat. Off peak when there are very few players (2am), are these children locked in a perpetual snowball fight?

Discuss

if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

Greencactaur.4396:

if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

Lmao I hope you’re trolling

It’s the same kind of question. How are we supposed to tell how it is either way? However, I’m going to go with “yes” (to both the NPCs and the trees). But with the NPCs it’s usually setup by some players (intentional or not) or some other event. The poor rabbit will die every time that Risen sees it, but it may not always see it. It could be torn off that path and the bunny gets away.

From what I’ve seen yes the NPCs do just carry on without players there.

The only exception being I would guess if no players on a particular server are in a map that map isn’t running so nothing is happening there. I have no idea how we could find out for sure, but it seems like a waste of processing power to be running maps no one is using. (Although on the other hand I doubt most servers have had 100% empty maps since launch weekend.)