NPCs Won't Engage Player or Hostile NPCs!

[Matricaria]

Select the npcs themselves, the number in the top right corner is their level.

These are 16-18, right? 19 should start to actually shoot you.

Looking into the video I edited in, it looks like they are indeed under 19. But those are nomads in the outer rim, when was this change made? I would like to get a version before this if it is at all possible, we used to have endless fun going deep into nomad space and roleplaying Order members, and I can't do this with this current state of the game. No offense to the devs intended at all.

I have an old 4.88.1 installer, but the moddb links don't seem to work. It may be hard to get the version, if it is even possible to get an answer when this change was made, but I don't mind a challenge if I can play with my friends like the good old days.

Thank you for clarifying anyway though!

This change made because of strong NPCs ruin PvP/RP by attacking and messing balance for both sides

There are zones/systems that have strong NPCs tho such as Omicron Major and Pennsylvania

Thank you so much, I understand now. I just couldn't fathom that pirate groups spawning along gunboats, and nomads in the outer reaches would be deactivated. So now it's the hunt for the patch that made this change, I will try to find the last working version so that I can PvE in a co-op server.

I certainly understand the change from a main server standpoint, but I just figured there would be some way to fix this for all the smaller servers out there, where there is pretty much nothing to do at the moment.

If anyone has any information on when the majority of the AI was deactivated I would be incredibly grateful, I played last a few years ago and never ran into outer reaches (especially nomad) NPCs that were disabled, so this will be a good place to start for my hunt.

Again, thank you both very much!