Territory Questions

Jura Arena

Jura Arena
Dear Mr. Erik,

In some articles about your game I found the following statement:
"Dinosaurs will also roam more and make use of a new territory system and will also seek to expand their territory if they aren't satisfied with what's currently available."

Now my questions: - Does it means, that the dinosaurs have this territory circle around themselves or have the place the dinosaurs claimed as their territory this circle?
- Will the dinosaurs find their way back to their territorys after they were evicted by predators. Means when the danger is over.

Thanks for reading
 

Aramus418

Aramus418
They said that dinos will patrol the perimeter of their territory (among other activities) so to me that sounds like the territory is a set area rather than a circle around the dinosaurs.
 

Aramus418

Aramus418
Dark_Ansem said:
I wonder if dinos can actually migrate.
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It really sounds like they could under the right circumstances. Based on what I've read and heard so far: when they leave the hatchery they'll look for an area that suits their needs and go there. Individuals come together to make herds and herds share the territory for their group (and bigger herds will claim larger areas). Over time, the area will "decay" somehow (I assume less available plant matter of the type the occupying herbivores need), and they will expand their territory to encompass their ongoing needs while their claim on environmentally drained areas fades away (carnivores probably funtion similarly but how exactly i've no idea atm). This sounds like herds will slowly be moving around over time, eventually leaving the original area bit-by-bit unless they sense a much better area further away. However, it seems possible that further migrations could occur if incremental expansions stop supplying what they need and a better area is detected further away (i.e. A paddock dominated by a central plain with two forrests on either end, sauropods migrate between forrests when the biomass from the canopy of one is depleted and they shift territory to the other forrest on the far side).

While writing this I also got my own question about how carnivore territory might work. Aside from allowing them to prey on other dinos, if they still have goat feeders or the like, I wonder if these feeders can be programed to only dispense when a carnivore has claimed territory it was placed in. Then carnivores would tend to hang out near feeders till they run out and migrate to another carnivore feeder, allowing rangers to refill feeders in safety while the chompy bois are living off another feeder. Alternatively, all feeders keep pumping out goats, but the goats themselves get into herds and claim a territory around that feeder so that when carnivores eat all the goats around one feeder they naturally migrate to the next goat herd's area.
 
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Dark_Ansem

Dark_Ansem
Aramus418 said:
It really sounds like they could under the right circumstances. Based on what I've read and heard so far: when they leave the hatchery they'll look for an area that suits their needs and go there. Individuals come together to make herds and herds share the territory for their group (and bigger herds will claim larger areas). Over time, the area will "decay" somehow (I assume less available plant matter of the type the occupying herbivores need), and they will expand their territory to encompass their ongoing needs while their claim on environmentally drained areas fades away (carnivores probably funtion similarly but how exactly i've no idea atm). This sounds like herds will slowly be moving around over time, eventually leaving the original area bit-by-bit unless they sense a much better area further away. However, it seems possible that further migrations could occur if incremental expansions stop supplying what they need and a better area is detected further away (i.e. A paddock dominated by a central plain with two forrests on either end, sauropods migrate between forrests when the biomass from the canopy of one is depleted and they shift territory to the other forrest on the far side).

While writing this I also got my own question about how carnivore territory might work. Aside from allowing them to prey on other dinos, if they still have goat feeders or the like, I wonder if these feeders can be programed to only dispense when a carnivore has claimed territory it was placed in. Then carnivores would tend to hang out near feeders till they run out and migrate to another carnivore feeder, allowing rangers to refill feeders in safety while the chompy bois are living off another feeder. Alternatively, all feeders keep pumping out goats, but the goats themselves get into herds and claim a territory around that feeder so that when carnivores eat all the goats around one feeder they naturally migrate to the next goat herd's area.
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I am just so starved for information! But apparently even being too excited about this game is considered "toxic".
 

Jura Arena

Jura Arena
Aramus418 said:
It really sounds like they could under the right circumstances. Based on what I've read and heard so far: when they leave the hatchery they'll look for an area that suits their needs and go there. Individuals come together to make herds and herds share the territory for their group (and bigger herds will claim larger areas). Over time, the area will "decay" somehow (I assume less available plant matter of the type the occupying herbivores need), and they will expand their territory to encompass their ongoing needs while their claim on environmentally drained areas fades away (carnivores probably funtion similarly but how exactly i've no idea atm). This sounds like herds will slowly be moving around over time, eventually leaving the original area bit-by-bit unless they sense a much better area further away. However, it seems possible that further migrations could occur if incremental expansions stop supplying what they need and a better area is detected further away (i.e. A paddock dominated by a central plain with two forrests on either end, sauropods migrate between forrests when the biomass from the canopy of one is depleted and they shift territory to the other forrest on the far side).

While writing this I also got my own question about how carnivore territory might work. Aside from allowing them to prey on other dinos, if they still have goat feeders or the like, I wonder if these feeders can be programed to only dispense when a carnivore has claimed territory it was placed in. Then carnivores would tend to hang out near feeders till they run out and migrate to another carnivore feeder, allowing rangers to refill feeders in safety while the chompy bois are living off another feeder. Alternatively, all feeders keep pumping out goats, but the goats themselves get into herds and claim a territory around that feeder so that when carnivores eat all the goats around one feeder they naturally migrate to the next goat herd's area.
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The "decay"was revised in the livestream. There they said you have youst to put down the Plants/brushes ones. Nothing about decaying plants.
But then the question arises why the dinos should claim other territories if they have all they need.
At the moment it sounds like they should stay at their territories but by a bug they don't. And once more they sell us a non existable feature as a great feature. (just like the statement: "we want to give you the full grown dinosaur experience." because of which there is no breeding.)
 

Jens Erik

Senior Community Manager
Frontier
Aramus418 said:
They said that dinos will patrol the perimeter of their territory (among other activities) so to me that sounds like the territory is a set area rather than a circle around the dinosaurs.
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Dinosaurs will start to create their territory from the moment they emerge from a Hatchery, and will expand the territory as needed based on their different needs (space, food, etc). If they don't have what they need in their current territory they will continue to seek it and expand the territory.
 

Dark_Ansem

Dark_Ansem
Jens Erik said:
Dinosaurs will start to create their territory from the moment they emerge from a Hatchery, and will expand the territory as needed based on their different needs (space, food, etc). If they don't have what they need in their current territory they will continue to seek it and expand the territory.
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Ohh does this mean that they can come back to the previous territory?
 

Bobjeffbob

Bobjeffbob
Jens Erik said:
Dinosaurs will start to create their territory from the moment they emerge from a Hatchery, and will expand the territory as needed based on their different needs (space, food, etc). If they don't have what they need in their current territory they will continue to seek it and expand the territory.
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and what happens when it doesn't find what it needs in the enclosure?
 
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