total anarchy

[Gimfalisette]

Some soldier NPCs patrol. Some stay in place. Some give chase to a criminal, and end up in a place they didn't start in--this is why you're seeing so many soldiers in one location, usually. Other times, a PC templar may place soldiers in a particular location because there is some reason ICly for that to be done.

Allanak is a city of about 500k, but there are at least 10k soldiers in the city, and hundreds of templars. No, all of them are not on duty all the time--for soldiers, their duties would typically keep them engaged for about 6 hours out of 9. However, at any given time, there are FAR more soldiers and templars on duty (VNPC, NPC, and PC) than, for example, the proportion of cops in Chicago.