Originally Posted by Dubious
there is no animals cause they have already been killed
and i rather have the 2k ppl than 1,5k ppl and 500 birds..
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If all the macro life was killed the eco-system would collapse and all the vegetation would die. No Atmosphere and desertification would take over, clearly things are still alive just not put into the game. Further more clearly 500 birds would not replace 500 people, that is just simply not how servers work. There are no NPCs currently in PS-2, WoW has maybe like 100000 per server at anytime with a 15000 population cap. When they add a zone and more NPCs it doesn't magically reduce the population cap.
Originally Posted by Dagron
I'd like to see someone get torn apart by a mountain lion and a grizzly bear fighting for his carcass after he fell down a ravine.
Seriously though, i kind of like this idea. As long as it was only a few beasts here and there, just enough to make the world seem a little more real, we wouldn't want to sacrifice performance.
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Ya or like mountain lions that tear up that sniper sitting on the mountain 1km from the base for too long. LOL pilots who land to repair in the middle of no where would need to look out for wild space tigers or if next to water wild space crocs. If they add swimming you could add like 50 sharks across an entire continent. Enough so people would get eaten but very rarely.
Originally Posted by OutlawDr
Main problem I see is that NPCs are going to lower performance. I don't want a slide show due to there being 300 players on my screen plus another whatever number space buffalo.
Limit it a bit. Limit it to single to small groups of creatures that only pop out in low pop areas. This is for performance reasons, and because when there is nobody around players will appreciate these encounters more (but Im sure many will find them annoying). Players are not going to be too thrilled about space buffalo mucking about in the middle of a base battle. I know I wouldn't..especially if its the reason my framerate is suffering.
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I totally agree I don't think they should be right by the bases but the continents are huge and of course animals would have found ravines, mountains, forests to hide in. Also when a battle started the first thing animals would do would be run away just like in real life. Out there it could definitely have minimal impact on peoples performance and if you limited it to like 600 per continent at a time or such it could be run with minimal computing (if you consider skyrim runs on a ps3 or xbox). You could add biodiversity by having different creatures spawn at night vs day. Imagine sneaking up on a tower at night but knowing that the continent you were on had roaming packs of Raptors that came out at night too.