Nightmare Otters, I'm telling you....
Though in game I made my peace with them after we finally got the Small Clawed Otter. I can now appreciate tha variation.
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Though in game I made my peace with them after we finally got the Small Clawed Otter. I can now appreciate tha variation.
Guys, that's just the consequence of mapping a complex reality to game/software logic and in this case to something as simple as a true-false boolean. Without context of what that actually means in the game logic it obviously looks weird 
Reminds me of the time where we had to integrate with a piece of software in which their original architects forgot to think about the fact that people could go in to the hospital and go back home (for context, the software was for people in elderly care and in those cases a hospital stay did very often not end well); so basically the "Alive" state ended up meaning that they were in the hospital, and "Deceased" meant that they were either deceased or just went back home. There were multiple records of people going from "Alive" back to "Deceased" to "Alive" again, but I can assure you, nobody was performing necromancy on patients at those hospitals
Reminds me of the time where we had to integrate with a piece of software in which their original architects forgot to think about the fact that people could go in to the hospital and go back home (for context, the software was for people in elderly care and in those cases a hospital stay did very often not end well); so basically the "Alive" state ended up meaning that they were in the hospital, and "Deceased" meant that they were either deceased or just went back home. There were multiple records of people going from "Alive" back to "Deceased" to "Alive" again, but I can assure you, nobody was performing necromancy on patients at those hospitals
I really hope the Honey Badger is a predator that kills every single thing in its exhibit... I have an unkillable bear and I need to get rid of it
Super duper, the game's 1st climbing canid. Can't wait for so unique habitats
It should also hunt guests when it manages to escape!
For context: I had a few Rheas that I had to exterminate (I couldn't sell them because they were injured) so I decided to purchase a spectacled bear to deal with them... And it did.
But then I had to kill the bear.
I tried tigers, lions, crocodiles, bigger bears... The immortal bear killed every single one of them.
I need to eliminate him
I am just beyond words. Thank you, Frontier.
At this point the bear earned his life
(You could just sell animals in game though
)This place looks incredible! I will be visiting Japan two separate times hopefully by the end of next year (once for work, once for vacation)... I wish this were closer to Tokyo/Saitama where I'll be staying! I plan to visit multiple zoos around Tokyo that will have each of these species, but this would be incredible to see!@Mjmannella @Cooper_yang
Thank you both for your responses.
I see, so that’s how it’s programmed in the game.
I’m also well aware of the relationship between the two species in the wild.
In fact, I myself believe that the possibility of tanuki and foxes coexisting is quite low.
I apologize if my comment was surprising.
However, there's a reason I still said I was "looking forward to it."
It may sound unbelievable, but at a place called the Kitakitsune Farm in Hokkaido, Japan, foxes and tanuki actually live together!
Given that the game often respects natural behavior, I know the possibility is extremely low.
That said, since the devs have previously made cohabitation between the maned wolf and giant anteater possible, I thought there might be a tiny chance—especially if they happen to be aware of Kitakitsune Farm.
Well, realistically speaking, I imagine it would only ever be something achievable in sandbox mode…
Oh, and here’s a link to the Kitakitsune Farm website.
I'm aware that there's a true/false binary at play, but even with the constraints it still just makes more sense for giant otters to be coded as predators than as prey. Giant otters are well known to be formidable hunters that take a variety of game. We they worried that they'd kill land animals like peafowl?
An equally baffling decision was to make the primarily was to make the primarily herbivorous spectacled bears predators even though both sun bears and panda bears are prey animals without anyone complaining.
Without context I'm just not going to judge the decision making here. I share your assumption that it is to let the animals hunt or not; that seems reasonable, but at the same time that same boolean can also be tied to a bunch of other things that we don't know of. It's not at all uncommon that a single boolean is tied to multiple parts within the software.
I've seen plenty of things that looked like a weird choice to me at first but made perfect sense after I gotten the full context, I'm just not going to fall into that trap again, no matter how much "sense" I think my approach makes.
Oh my god I forgot about that part and the designs peak too
Why are they locking in on small canids, first we got deep diving bush dogs and now climbing tanukis
Same though I’d still like a temperate otter.
On topic though, the raccoon dog is looking great. Maybe this pack is where all the extra effort from the last pack went.
Personally, I'd rather smaller, unique canids than another Canis member or a fox (except the gray fox)
to make me specifically very happy
true these last 2 canids are probably 2 of my favourites ingame, they've both been really good. Honestly I don't even mind the coyote.
Yeah fair, im so glad to see all the canid love recently, this was secretly the year of both the dogs and the monkeys
Which is weird because it's supposed to be the year of the snake.
If you have the chance, please go! (I won't tell anyone that I've never been there myself. I'd like to go someday.)
He is staring into my soul.
Also... I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here. I'm glad a bunch of You got your favorite animal with the tanuki. But imo the mod looks way better.
This is not as bad as the Palla's cat situation but is similar for me.