well, the suggestions forums has 229 pages, i looked through the first 10 and didnt find anything on this.
i think the a.i. should be more involved. as of right now when you hail an a.i. you get 1's and 0's. how about "welcome to Sedina D-14 Sedina V Hold (Corvus Research). Be sure to equip yourself at our local shop for your journey ahead." or whatever. i know there are autoreply plugins now that recognize words, so in theory, you could ask a Station Guard a question, no? even escorts could say something like "Hello Pilot! Fair skies tonight. Please don't attack our trade ships or we will be forced to open fire." or whatever. also, i know if you give a station guard money, he gives it back, which means that an a.i. can respond to the person who interacted with him (i assume) and recognize you and even say your name. "Hello Incarnate" instead of "Hello Pilot". even small talk "i hope i get off soon, i have a hot date tonight." maybe they could have a list of random things to say so they dont say the same thing over and over?

I agree, a fun idea for the future.

"i hope i get off soon, i have a hot date tonight."

hehehe epicly bad worded response :-)

some prefer coming before their date.

:p you guys are silly

Back to the thread's intentions, I totally agree. We need NPCs that say and do all sorts of diverse things, including passing along random updates about stuff they may have seen. For instance, striking up a conversation with a passing transport convoy could yield info about other players they have seen recently, weather problems they encountered, or random "rumors" about.. "stuff".

This is planned. Just taking awhile, like everything.

that would be awesome inc.