User blog comment:BillStef/Was anyone disappointed by Infinite?/@comment-75.36.140.111-20130820162329

"Also, once a fight starts, have you noticed how the inhabitants of Columbia just suddenly disappear into thin air?"

More NPCs in battles, same old platforms as target hardware. Need to get rid of ionr  things that slow the rendering. Also having non-opponent NPCs react in the battle (in any logical versatile way)  is alot of extra scripting they would have to develop,