>>52670643That'd not only require the NPCs to actually move around in town, but they'd all need to have set paths and schedules to follow. Way too much work for a poor little indie company.
That reminds me, I really fucking hate that there are so many of those fake roaming NPCs in SV. You know the ones, with a little text box above their head that you can't actually talk to, they just seem to appear and disappear depending on whether or not you're looking at them, and when you follow them closely they just walk to one of the town's entrances and then turn around and walk the other way.
They're in EVERY SINGLE TOWN, and make them all feel totally soulless. I used to love discovering all the interesting NPCs and memorizing their locations. In this, you walk into town and see some kid walking along with his Bounsweet or Kirlia or whatever ten paces behind them and unable to catch up because their walking speed is too low, then you turn around a corner in the opposite direction and see the exact same kid and Pokemon. It's fucking disgusting.