I was browsing the web, as you do, when I came across these plugins that add NPC’s to multiplayer. But unlike existing NPC’s, such as villagers, these plugin based NPC’s look like minecraft players, can be named, bought, given gear, armour, follow paths, engage in conversation, etc. Ii was wondering if such a plugin would be possible for PirateCraft. This will enable players to increase a crew size, the longer they play, without the need to recruit other players. So, instead of having two ships with ten crew members, making the 20 player limit, there can be 20 players acting as captains, with crews of sizes thatr they can afford. These NPC’s can be used as guards, or pirates round the world, or travellers that you can kill. They can look like the British, redcoats, or the Spanish, or French, or pirates, dotted in and around forts. This will enable players to build thriving towns, much like the towns of the 17th centaury, with guards patrolling the streets, and gangs of pirates in street corners. By no means the server should be thriving with them, but they could be £500 each, so that they don’t clutter the server, but enable Pirates to have a decent crew that won’t disappear, and will be there when players log on. I’ll include a link, to the site that I found, but there are others, such as a citizens plugin! Hope that I didn’t waste your time, and that you think this may benefit the server! 🙂

http://www.npcwarehouse.net/

And the other one:

http://dev.bukkit.org/bukkit-plugins/citizens/

Btw, we can also create Famous YouTubers, that will look like real players, great for server advertising! 🙂 🙂