Tainted Woods

[soulfien]

Jan 22, 2009 10:47:58 GMT -5 Micteu said:

Animals, especially the kind that like to eat adventurers, aren't nearly so thick in the real world.

It would take a lot of small critters to feed a pack of wolves. Or two or three or four packs, as may be found in some woods. Where are all the herbivores that run away on sight? Did the wolves eath them all? Are the wolves starving now? Is that why the wolves attack adventurers?

I guess having the time static in the same year over and over helps with covering plot holes, because maybe that was a bad year for wolves and bears and dire bears and panthers and, well, practically any critter that eats meat and is larger than an adventurer.

It just seems like ecologically, the woods are unbalanced.

I think you're forgetting that when a lvl 1 walks through the area they dont see several large packs, but a couple groups of 1 wolf alone.

When a high level walks through the spawn is increased showing multiple packs of 5 worlves

[Micteu]

On the other hand, there are multiple bear and wolf spawns, meaning the carnivores outnumber the boars by quite a bit.

If I remember right, about 1/10 the energy in food is absorbed after eating it. This means roughly ten times the amount of mass in herbivores would be needed for the carnivores. You could maybe get away with saying the wolves and bears eat each other, too.

I guess I just want the beatiful places to not be full of things that look at my character like this:

[Munroe]

I guess I should stop looking at your character like that too?

[The Supreme Watcher]

Uju is definitely a piece of meat.

Mmm...