City ideas

[Chaosy]

Hello, I am looking for ideas/suggestions on how to make a city living.

Currently I basically made a few guards patroll and the civilians just walk around randomly. However I feel like it isn't enough.

 

[Heinvers]

Ahem, why hello there dude You would also need some carts "driving" through the city. Some merchants bringing in some food and stuff like that for their stores. Maybe some military march from time to time. Some occasional thievery in alley or on the streets. Some men fighting over women (yes, there was something like that in medieval ages).

Edit: more to come!

 

[noob]

Maybe make that randomly (from time to time) people shout and rage about an new law or an new tax also make preceptors who every X time goes into all the houses and ask for taxes and make rarely that someone make an crime and that law come to get him and put it in a jail.
Some time there is festivities because some people are getting married or things of this kind.
Maybe (if it does not lag too much) make that when someone or a cart can not walk toward his destination (because there is too much people who block the way) then he becomes angry and shout at others.
Just make enough events and it will look lively.

 

[Chaosy]

@heinvers
The fighting part is something I was considering a while ago, but I never added it somehow. I added a few fighting parties now
For the cart, it's fairly good really I will do something reminding of the idea.

@noob
The random shout thing will do the trick, for the events I will see how many I got time for.

thanks both of you.

 

[Kino]

If you want to take the time, you can do a few things to enhance said city's identity.

1- An emblem of the city. A recurring doodad/colour/shape/theme in the architecture, or perhaps in the citizen's attire/mannerisms/the way the speak etc.

2 - Have areas that loosely correspond to the what a real settlement would need. Administrative area, where the leadership resides. Living quarters, markets, etc.

 

[GywGod133]

@Chaosy
I have suggestion, you said all villagers walk a random point, ( :/ its not good if all villagers walk and walk until villagers died lol )

in @heinvers's suggestion, all cars just set it in 100 speed ( When the car move, the speed will be increase into 1 )

Edit: Hmmmm Maybe I will add soon

 

[Ragnoras]

How about some gangs such as Miafia.... having gang wars rarely and the police arriving at the scene, shooting at both gangs....

 

[Chaosy]

that would work in a modern map for sure, but this is a medieval map.

@the others who replied
I am too lazy to answer all of you personally atm, but I take every suggestion into consideration. (+4) rep for those who gave ideas so far.

 

[Ragnoras]

Have you ever think about Churches... Cathedrals yet? Because many medival Towns have churches and cathedrals

 

[Binsu]

You could also add villagers lumbering, villagers mining at nearby mines or rocks for minerals and etc, barracks where guards or soldiers dwells (make them either do partol at that specific area and two warriors spar each other), a bard playing his/her music at a point where crowds of people are listening, some travelling merchants and etc.

 

[Solu9]

a bard playing his/her music at a point where crowds of people are listening, some travelling merchants and etc.

To add to this. Theatre groups often came to town to give a show.
People trying to scam other people with card games or "magic". You could even make a minigame out of that.

A harbour could also be implemented. A good place for fish merchants or perhaps some fish auction?
Crates, carts, tollbooth, registrate and so on would be needed at a harbour alongside a lot of busy workmen.

 

[Tickles]

To add to Solu9's idea of fish, there could be fishermen actually fishing around the harbor. You could have farmers harvesting crops, and it would be more interactive if people turned their heads toward the player or things happening nearby using the Animation - Lock Body-Part Facing trigger. Maybe you could include one of those people that stand at street intersections and shout out news when events occur around the town.