Ant spawn's

qurvax · 2014-02-28T15:36:16.000Z

It’s not a bug, more like a suggestion. It’s would be good to limit ant’s spawn somehow. Or make them not go far away from theyr hill at least.

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It’s a town several map tiles away from anthill. I think this is just to much. Maybe it’s should be limited by some factors, so they don’t clog up the screen like that?

Zireael · 2014-02-28T15:52:41.000Z

How much is ‘a few’ map tiles? Generally, their range is around 10 map tiles.

John_Candlebury · 2014-02-28T16:03:49.000Z

They are ants. Have you seen a disturbed ant swarm before? they look like that.

qurvax · 2014-02-28T16:21:03.000Z

I didn’t disturb them this time actually And my house were maybe 3-4 tiles away.
In my previous games i did raid some hills tho, and didn’t see so much ants even inside. Probably because the longer player stays in the region, the bigger criter population gets?

Inadequate · 2014-02-28T16:44:12.000Z

Yeah, I think spawn rates could stand to include drop-off rates that take distance from the spawning point into account. I remember when swamps were pretty much game-ending deathtraps because once you walked past one, you’d forevermore be swarmed by a neverending stream of swamp creatures no matter where you went.

Soyweiser · 2014-02-28T17:35:09.000Z

iirc the ants and a lot of other spawns use the dynamic spawn system. The more noise, the more ants. Perhaps they should be despawned indeed.

qurvax · 2014-03-02T19:39:35.000Z

I’m very sorry… but i had to do THIS.

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Poor ants.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-03-02T19:43:08.000Z

You sure your name isn’t The Ant Agonizer?

StopSignal · 2014-03-02T20:07:27.000Z

I think ants should behave the way they do in real life: moving in little groups, in line. Maybe even going to take leaves from the bushes while warrior ants stay in the cave, with the larvae.

Zireael · 2014-03-02T20:20:48.000Z

HunterAlpha1:

You sure your name isn’t The Ant Agonizer?

Nice one!

qurvax · 2014-03-02T21:09:14.000Z

It’s sure feels wrong, when one can walk inside anthill and face almost no resistance on theyr way to queen chambers. Also more wrongs - there was two queens. Well, at least that much i found untill my batteries ran out.
Acid rain came next day morning…

Oragepoilu · 2014-03-02T21:17:50.000Z

It’s a know-stuff from a long time as far as i know.
Maybe someone will deal with this using a despawn-code (also needed for almost every no-zombies spawn), but don’t hope much on this, there is actualy enought to do.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-03-03T01:33:30.000Z

[quote=“qurvax, post:11, topic:5241”]It’s sure feels wrong, when one can walk inside anthill and face almost no resistance on theyr way to queen chambers. Also more wrongs - there was two queens. Well, at least that much i found untill my batteries ran out.
Acid rain came next day morning…[/quote]Yeah there definitely needs to be more soldier ants hanging around the entrance to the anthill, as well as more hanging around the queen’s chamber.

bubbadoo14 · 2014-03-03T09:59:51.000Z

I have had an ant queen spawn right next to my base while I was raiding, when I got back the Queen had laid millions of eggs outside my kitchen window and I was chased out by a bunch of soldier ants, I was so pissed I spawned some NPC’s to help take the ants out. I also one time saw an Ant Queen pass by my house again, I tried following it to see when it would lay some useful eggs, but I got bored (damn thing is SOOOO SLOOOOWWWW) and went to organise my house and when I got back to check on it in a few ingame minutes time it had disappeared and I couldn’t find it! This was also the experimental the day befor 0.A came out so it may have been fixed?

qurvax · 2014-03-03T16:07:34.000Z

I very much doubt it. There was no words of someone messing around non-z spawn code for quite a long time At least on the forums.
Well, since we have stable out, maybe it’s time for ppl who can actually code, to consider looking into the matter.