https://www.vg247.com/2018/12/07/atlas-pirate-mmo-massive-scale-by-ark-survival-evolved-devs/ Everyday more compaines focusing on MMO which will deliver huge amount of players around you to make feel game more believeable. Star citizen evolved over years with the vision they have , plans and other stuff. I thınk adding much NPC into the game can only extend the game life a little bit. NPC's nothing more than eye candy stuff when it comes to interacting with real people. I thınk cig should take some path where they focus on adding more players into the verse more than trying to make AI capable of doing some stuff. No matter what they do AI's wont feel like real players when it comes to doing limitless stuff in this sandbox word. For example having fights always will feel same. Unpredictable behaviors of players what will keep the game alive, since there is no players to interact and then mmo side of the game dies , then there will be no hope for Star Citizen's future. I'm not saying they aint doing anything releated to social life, this is the best RP MMO releated game i have ever seen, I just want CIG to break records in terms of player count as well. I'd rather suffer low framerates than just seeing universe empty. They can make fps improve like hell but its empty no one will play it , look how fallout 76 suffers.