animal tracking

[ninja_yodeler]

did search this, and read over them, but i think my idea is a bit different

for anyone who has played deer hunter 2005 season, you will have a good idea of what im talking about in terms of appearance.

so i think that animals (that will fight back) should leave tracks, seen with hunting and ranging; they would appear as 4 small silver dots taking 2 tiles. they can be seen even without tracking turned on, and can be right clicked to give information by way of pressing "Examine" (or something similar) in a flower menu.

at the lowest per*exp you need to see these, the only info you will get is: the type of animal
at the next increment perc*exp you get: type of animal, and direction
then: type, direction, how long ago
finally :type, direction, time elapsed, level of animal (if thats possible to predict, if not, then im not sure what the last would be)

how would something like this fit in?? in your eyes?

[SacreDoom]

I can imagine a shitload of footprints all over the place spamming up the forests and grasslands looking ugly.

The general idea is good, but it needs to be done right.

[ninja_yodeler]

hmm, i thought of that to, but i cant think of any way around it, save one set of tgracks per animal for each grid, orone set for every X amount of tiles..


or a different thing, would be have to turn tracking on..

[BruThoL]

That's a good idea imo.
Maybe something like animals leaving "scents" each time they've walked 200 tiles.
With a limit of 2 "scents" by animal (the oldest would disappear).

This afternoon, I was thinking about adding wolves which could bd tamed into dogs which can be used (with a rope in hand) for ranging animals/criminals after smelling scents.
Dogs could also be used for defending settlements, attacking anyone who trespass...

We need the hearling's best friend!

[ninja_yodeler]

dogs have been suggested sooo many times before...

but if they were around it would be good for this sorta thing
and the limit of scents would be good.
1 track per animal per grid, as soon as it changes grid, it gets a new track

[Elden]

Wolves posess some big trouble, as they live in herds and are both argessive and mass-aggro...
But i'd like to see dogs too.

As for animal scents: +1. one scent per grid is okay. i'd like to see some bear scents when it runs away.(if it doesnt despawn)

[Grable]

Add ability to filter tracks and ability to turn on/off animal tracking and it should work.