A wildlife question

[radicalseven]

When I last played this game, it took hours for me or even more to find a animal. I was just wondering if anything actually happend since then, or is it still really hard to find animals? Also if it isn't, does anyone know if they're planning on making it easier to find animals?

[Crokus]

Wildlife? I've seen more rabbits, squirrels and kittens than anything else. Vicous little creatures. Beware.

[MrDDT]

Radical good question for the Q&A.

But so far, Ive seen a major decrease again in wildlife. I can go for an hour or more without seeing anything, and if you are out hunting good luck, you might find some rats or a hamster/cat etc. But finding a bear deer raccoon or coyote (Animals that add bonuses to bones) its very hard.

There needs to be tracking, there needs to be MUCH stronger animals out there to help people get more into the survial aspect of this game. Running into a bear isnt even scary in this game, its like oh look a bear BAM, its dead. If they were very dangerous then I can see trying to get a group together to hunt it down, and then the rewards would be more fun, but right now its like who is lucky enough to randomly find one is going to get the rewards. No combat tactics, skills weapons etc needed.

[NorCalGooey]

I don't see why they can't increase the rate of animal spawn. Perhaps its hard to balance. Even if all animals are killed in an area, there should still be a source where they spawn from. They should just spawn faster the more there are in an area (breeding).

[MrDDT]

This isn't nature. This isn't real life. Animals don't "breed" in online video games, and any attempt to replicate such a delicate cycle simply won't work.

How so? I understand thats your opinion but I dont see how its backed up by anything.

Ive already seen this happen with breeding in Wurm online. Also in Xsyon it was working before then they changed something.

[MrDDT]

They can call it whatever, but it's still just spawning. Do you understand?

I guess, you want to think of it like that. But then you can say that about a lot of things in game. The point of the "spawning" vs "breeding" is that they require other animals to "breed" the point of it is that. Just popping up because its a "spawn" point and not any other reason is what people call spawning normally.

Which is why they normally have what they call a "spawn" point.

While breeding doesnt work like that, the spawn point is based off other animals and it may or may not spawn in a 1 location over another.