Just got the game and I LOVE it 
stayed up waaaay too late playing it lol. I do have two questions however. One is hardware related so if it needs to be moved I can do that.
On the gameplay question. Starting out robbing people who venture out onto rural roads seems a good way to make some cash in the beginning. Leaving them alive seems to lower your rep but killing them doesn’t. My question is, is there a finite number of NPC’s like in Skyrim so if I keep killing people will the towns become empty leaving me with nothing to do or do the randomly generate so I’ll never run out?
Second question. My set up (GTX 1060 3gig and i5 7400) gets regular frame rate issues. Considering getting a 1080 but don’t know if the i5 will bottleneck in this game. Anyone suggest which I should upgrade? GPU our Processor?
Gpu, if you’re going for one or the other the gpu
might as well got for a 1070 and a processor though, dont always have to balls to the wall
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NPC spawn, so feel free to kill them as much as your guilty conscience lets you
However, reputation gets lower even in case there is no witness. Maybe try other ways of earning cash, too. -
Your HW is OK. Just wait for patch 1.4 that should improve the performance. If needed, 16 GB RAM will help, SSD for storage.
On the gameplay question:
Wayfarers simply named “Wayfarer” and guards named Guard are generated (I’m not sure about “Villager” as they seem to have scripted families and homes and such), so no worries killing them. The game responds a little differently to unseen crime: for instance if you steal a lot from one place, even if you don’t get caught doing it the guards will be vastly more likely to conduct random searches because things are being stolen. I don’t know if there’s some similar response to rampant murder. I hope so but don’t know what it would be.
I would be careful killing anyone who is called anything other then Villager…with the exception of random encounter NPCs such as riddler, mercenaries, or that wandering noble who wants to duel, these people seem to respawn.
If you’re in a town and they have a name or are called Vagabond they are probably needed for something at some point
As far as I know, NPCs are finite in towns. But the wayfarers and random encounters on roads are generated each time. So don’t go on a killing spree in a town if you want to finish all those quests. I killed everyone in Rattay and the only people left were essential to the story (like in Skyrim some characters cannot be hurt or killed) and guards seem to respawn indefinitely. I constantly had new guards trying to kill me but the citizens started to get pretty thin.
As far as the hardware issues, I can’t say much about this game. I have heard that this game is pretty CPU dependent but I am not sure that more cores are going to benefit you or not. Probably focus on clock speed in that department which the I5 is not really any different than an i7 when just talking clock speeds. That said, upgrading to a 1080 is going to give you a decent frame rate boost to pretty much any game on your system. Hopefully someone with more technical knowledge can fill you in on the specifics of this topic more than I can.
Ah okay. Well if it’s a matter of just waiting for an update perhaps I’ll just play it as is and keep saving to do all the hardware upgrades I want to do all at once.
Good to know about the non named NPC’s as well, just did that for a little bit so I had enough cash for a entry level sword and a couple pieces of entry level armor. Not in a rush to get the big bad stuff, prefer the slower pace anywho just wanted to get into the bare bones loadout. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t risking gameplay opportunities by choking out some NPC’s on the roads 
Thanks for the input everybody
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If you do get sick of scraping around for scraps, you should shoot one of the faint-hearted knights in the face and take his plate armor. It’s a really easy way to get some plate pieces.
I had read about doing that. Someone had said there was a regular encounter north of Miller past the couple little bridges to the east. Walked around there for a while but couldn’t find them.
I haven’t actually had random encounters happen while just running around. It happens during fast travel actually. Also, keep in mind that pretty quickly on into the game, you will start running into bandits that have a piece of plate here and there. They are relatively easy to beat because they aren’t fully plated. The game is unfortunately not that challenging once you have plate, it gets very difficult to take any damage at all if you are even a little competent at fighting.
They happen its just when you fast travel the game prompts you but when you’re just riding your horse someone might say something as you pass by but it’s easy to miss. I’ve seen villagers and mercenaries for sure just riding around…but I usually fast travel if I have to go far; I feel like that’s where you get the battles and attack random encounters
I can never resist steath killing Wayfarers with no dialog option.
Ah okay. I thought I was gonna get my first random encounter after leaving the horse race, started to fast travel and there was a noise and it stopped. But all that happened is apparently when fast traveling I ran into another horse? Either way both horses were dead and I had to call pebbles to get home lol.