The rest of my post was me saying that it is NOT already possible to do. But from the sounds of it, it sounds like we have very different ideas about what exactly we each mean by the AI competing with players to solve quests.
You completely, totally misunderstand what I am talking about. I don't want AI companions at all! I never advocated for an AI system. Of
course that would be a horrendous burden on the devs. No one is asking for that.
I WANT CONTROL OVER MULTIPLE PCS. Even when those PCs sometimes choose to be at odds with one another.
Exactly like exists now in multiplayer, except with only one player. Just like they have in dev mode but don't want to let us access.
I want to press
1) Elf PC: enslave the dwarves.
then switch characters and press
1) Dwarf PC: free the dwarves.
and then see what happens.