Question to all my fellow RPers.. Do you all consider CD to be "alive" in the sense of that we assume there are invisible NPC's 'City/Town populations worth' walking around with their daily lives that ignore us until we want them involved. Or do you consider CD to be only populated by players. Example  if the city has no active players on, the streets are actually empty with no NPC's to be considered which would only make the city as 'alive' as it's player count.

Genuine question no trolling, I am curious on how individuals view RP cities / towns.