Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Thoughts on the further development of Haven & Hearth? Feel free to opine!
User avatar
Sevenless
Posts: 7704
Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:55 am
Location: Canada

Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by Sevenless »

When you're dealing with a somewhat dense pen of animals, opening the gate to auto shoo causes the animals to get out of the way which is really useful. What is a pain though is when one of the auto-shooed animals hits another animal fairly close by and stops. For some reason this tends to trigger them to engage in wandering behaviour. And due to how that's coded (I'm hunching that it picks any pathable spot within X radius?) there's a solid 50/50 chance they path straight past you out the gate you just opened.

If the auto shoo disabled wandering behaviour for a short time (5s?) this wouldn't happen in the majority of cases.
Lucky: haven is so quirky
Lucky: can be so ugly, can be so heartwarming
Sevenless: it is life

The Art of Herding
W16 Farmer's Almanac
W16 Casting Rod Cheatsheet
Explanation of the logic behind the cooking system
User avatar
Asgaroth22
Posts: 625
Joined: Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:08 pm

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by Asgaroth22 »

So you're keeping animals in pens so small they can barely move and are angry when they try to escape these tormenting conditions?
PETA wants to know your location
In all seriousness though, seems like a nice QoL change
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
User avatar
Sevenless
Posts: 7704
Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:55 am
Location: Canada

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by Sevenless »

Image
Lucky: haven is so quirky
Lucky: can be so ugly, can be so heartwarming
Sevenless: it is life

The Art of Herding
W16 Farmer's Almanac
W16 Casting Rod Cheatsheet
Explanation of the logic behind the cooking system
eliminoid
Posts: 155
Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:04 pm

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by eliminoid »

Asgaroth22 wrote:So you're keeping animals in pens so small they can barely move and are angry when they try to escape these tormenting conditions?
They like to congregate near gate for some reason, no matter how much space they have. very annoying.
Hi
User avatar
shubla
Posts: 13041
Joined: Sun Nov 03, 2013 11:26 am
Location: Finland

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by shubla »

Too many animals.
Too small pen.
Animals should die if you keep them in too tight spaces.
Or quality could just lower.
Image
I'm not sure that I have a strong argument against sketch colors - Jorb, November 2019
http://i.imgur.com/CRrirds.png?1
Join the moderated unofficial discord for the game! https://discord.gg/2TAbGj2
Purus Pasta, The Best Client
digzol
Posts: 36
Joined: Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:08 am

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by digzol »

shubla wrote:Animals should die if you keep them in too tight spaces.
Or get diseases, as mentioned in last stream.

Also, I personally just spam open/close the gates to remedy this issue, but would be nice if I didn't have to.
User avatar
DPblH
Posts: 432
Joined: Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:57 pm

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by DPblH »

HALP PLZ
Image
Give a man a game engine and he delivers a game. Teach a man how to make a game engine and he never delivers anything.
User avatar
Sevenless
Posts: 7704
Joined: Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:55 am
Location: Canada

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by Sevenless »

Plz Halp

My cow is prangent?
Lucky: haven is so quirky
Lucky: can be so ugly, can be so heartwarming
Sevenless: it is life

The Art of Herding
W16 Farmer's Almanac
W16 Casting Rod Cheatsheet
Explanation of the logic behind the cooking system
eliminoid
Posts: 155
Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:04 pm

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by eliminoid »

digzol wrote: Or get diseases, as mentioned in last stream.
There is such disease, its called LOWFPSIUM
Hi
MadNomad
Posts: 2158
Joined: Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:13 pm

Re: Auto shoo on gate open minor change

Post by MadNomad »

You can build a bench into the fence to be able to jump inside and outside of the fence without a gate, but the thing described in this thread would be a lot better if it would allow to just walk through it rather than allow us to move inside like the bench does
eliminoid wrote:
Asgaroth22 wrote:So you're keeping animals in pens so small they can barely move and are angry when they try to escape these tormenting conditions?
They like to congregate near gate for some reason, no matter how much space they have. very annoying.
for sure this is not a coincidence ¦]

Return to “Critique & Ideas”