Fantasy NPC Open World 
Radiator Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. (A A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) And as the Vestal, she administers the local election, and in this ancient Roman city only the male NPC citizens are allowed to vote.
Raph Koster
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
It was like resetting a little stage-play; the NPC actors hit their marks and reappeared at their start location. If you follow that link, you’ll see open world events occurring as the quest proceeds, done without zone or quest locking, etc. Earlier in MUD design, these zones even “repopped” all at once. So is FFXIV.
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