Here's why it will cost money to do NPC schedules right:

Originally Posted by "Larian"

@Robcat: Somebody send a personal message telling us that we're trying to exploit people by putting the schedules at the 1M tier, and I guess there might be others thinking that so I just wanted to clarify that we're looking to add in an entire system where e.g. NPCs clean up their stuff on the market before they go home to sleep, where certain creatures only come out at night and guards close the fences because they're afraid of what lurks out there etc... It requires a lot of animation, programming, scripting & testing to get this right.