Radiant AI, R2D2 in progress? Options

[Hukai The Wandering]

Here's an example of the radiant AI in action. I'm following this guy through the city after he gets done working. He walks into his house. I'm 50 feet behind him so I don't get noticed and by the time I reach te door he's locked it. So, remembering that someone mention that he has a backyard I walk around the block trying to find it. I see a small gate that leads to a fenced-in grassy area and some guy tilling the land. Behind him is a door. I open the gate, walk past the guy working, and behold: the door leads into the back of the very house I needed to get in to. I crouch down, attemping to sneak inside. For a few seconds I wait, to make sure that no one sees me; and right before I enter the building some *honoured user*(cus word) inside locks it! Now, I'm screwed; I can't get inside and I have to wait another day before I can get anything done! All this pain thanks to the revolutionary AI created by the gods at Bethesda.

Any more stories, events, or just weird happenings having to do with RAI? Put 'em here!

This post has been edited by Hukai The Wandering: Mar 25 2006, 01:09 AM

[Foster]

I was doing a quest in Skingrad, and so, without spoiling anything, I was watching what a particular person was doing for about 12 hours. Not only was she doing her thang, as it were (going to the temple, working etc.) but about halfway through the day, her best friend starts walking around like he's skat his pants, following her. I sit and watch as he continues to walk around as though he's messed himself, before he gropes her behind and starts to make off. She immediatly screams: Dirty Pickpocket!

So what's happening is one dude (who so kindly gave me a marksmanship lesson earlier) stealing from his vinyard coworker. Immediatly he does it again, this time to a passing mook, and suddenly guards are chasing him. The guards hit him around the head with a sword, and he runs off, the guards and his victims in tow, until they corner him and beat him to death with a little assistance from my bow.

So, moral of the story... character decided he wanted to steal (contrary to rumours they do try it), and that interupted the cycle of all the other characters.

Strangely the victims didn't take their belongings back, and I nabbed the guys house key and spent a night sampling his wine collection.