Skimpy animals?

[Andar]

Has anyone else noticed that the animals (such as deer and cows) seem rather...lean lately? I killed a herd of 3 cows and each only had one steak in it. I have also killed a few deer earlier, and they each only had one leg!

Five legs may have been overkill, but one is just absurd. I have a savegame if anyone wants to see it.

[drcode]

I'll see if it happens in the latest build tonight.

[TdI]

Maybe a previous hunter ate some of the meat and then cast ressurect on the poor beasts.

[Andar]

Maybe...not? I found another herd of cows on Valoria (I think) that was 5 or so, all with one meat. Not that it affects play much, I just have to be careful of their hunger level, or butcher entire herds of cattle! At least, these cattle magically respawn.

[mikemayday]

Oh how I hate respawning.

[Tobias]

so do I. a limited number of creatures etc. for all games plz.

[TdI]

That sucks. I like the respawning. The world always stays alive. Unlike other RPGs, where everywhere you go twice is a barren nomansland, because you cleaned everything out on the first run.

[Scythifuge]

Controlled respawning would be good, to slowly repopulate an area after a certain period of time elapses. I wonder if that is possible to implement...

[Andar]

That would be better than routing a dungeon, coming back from the depths and finding a horde of dragons to battle while on your way back OUT!

And it seems just silly to walk half a screen away from a slaughtered herd of cows, and find they're all back alive again!

[mikemayday]

Yeah.
Respawning is definitely the worst part of the Ultima games to me.

[drcode]

Is this problem (skimpy animals) still happening? I tried killing a deer in the latest snapshot of BG, and there were 5 roasts, as expected.

[Scythifuge]

I just did a quick test, and I too get 5 roasts from deer, as well as 5 steaks from cows.

[mjohnston]

a somewhat related question... how can you change or set which frame of food an animal has? I tried to do it in exult studio, and can set the shape number, but can not seem to be able to set the frame number... I was thinking BG needs some bears and boars from SI... and that they need meat

[drcode]

I believe the food frames are currently hard-coded, so that's something we need to fix.

[marzo]

how can you change or set which frame of food an animal has?

At present, it is hard-coded; however, when the massive update I am working on is done, you'll be able to set it in ES (it is already done, in case you are curious).

[Andar]

Yep, all fixed up in the latest snapshot, it took me longer than usual to find a beastie to slay.

[HB]

That's a bad complain >.> HOW can anyone hate respawing when the enemies are so easy to defeat, and you still get good loot? Plus removing the respawning would be not so good (in the authors opinion)

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