MR. CONSTRUCTION GUY

When I whistled at this guy, instead of smiling he just stood there, looking uncomfortable, and ignored me. I was walking around enjoying the Gritty City, and I thought I finally found someone to talk to. After an extended silence I realized that Mr. Construction Guy is an inanimate collection of prims.

Now don't take this the wrong way ... he has a cute prim butt, but ... why does a fun sim need plastic people to populate itself? Where are all the "real" avatars? Are they all hanging out at the Morris Welcome Area? Maybe in the future the Lab can generate robots to populate all these cute sims. I've noticed that most sims are spooky quiet when there isn't a hunt or something going on to generate interest. There are loads of cute empty nightclubs, cute empty coffee bars, and cute empty malls. Hmm. Wait! Someone tell the Lab that I have an idea for another revenue stream. They can sell bots to populate your sim and make it seem more lifelike. For instance, if you own a nightclub, they can sell you a trio of bots that dance in a group while making automated prescripted snarky comments about each others' clothes. If you build a slummy city, they can provide robot panhandlers that curse at anyone who doesn't make a donation, and a robot guy who wanders the back alleys peeing on the walls. Animated bots that walk and talk would be more expensive than those that merely loiter on park benches. Unlike Mr. Construction Guy, they could be indistinuishable from real avatars. I like it ...