Weird spawn behaviour

Therrus · 2013-10-08T09:59:16.000Z

Greetings fellow survivors!

I’ve started playing Cataclysm at version 0.6 I think(well to be exact at 0.1 until I knew there was DDA with version 0.6). I had issues with the whole ASCII graphics up until I watched a Let’s Play to get into it but I totally forgot about the game up until recently and well…tiles! =)

Now my issue is that I get weird spawns of enemies. For example I only saw swimmer zombies or child zombies…was that changed and are cities not that full anymore? Except for the occasional Eye Bot of wasp I didn’t see anything. I made a new folder without changing any options( I usually don’t like dynamic spawn as I’d like to have some progression thus I prefer static spawn) but then all I get to see are fungaloids…nowhere near a fungal bloom?!

Is something broken or did I accidently change something again? The way it is without that many zombies it was far too easy to take a whole city…anyone knows why that spawning is behaving that way?

Thank you for taking your time.
Greetings

Petethegoat · 2013-10-08T13:23:45.000Z

You’ve probably encountered this issue. What’s the decimal symbol set to? (presuming you’re on Windows)

When game reads saved options from data/options.txt, spawn rate is rounded down. At least on Windows with version 0.8-308-ge683a00... if the decimal symbol for Windows is set for something else than dot. Like when some of us eurotrash like to use comma.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-10-08T13:26:10.000Z

Petethegoat:

decimal symbol

Decimal symbol. The decimal symbol.

Therrus · 2013-10-08T14:05:06.000Z

[quote=“Petethegoat, post:2, topic:3409”]You’ve probably encountered this issue. What’s the decimal symbol set to? (presuming you’re on Windows)

When game reads saved options from data/options.txt, spawn rate is rounded down. At least on Windows with version 0.8-308-ge683a00... if the decimal symbol for Windows is set for something else than dot. Like when some of us eurotrash like to use comma.

[/quote] That is partially it. But on my unchanged version I had noone except fungal spawns(without fungal bloom nearby). I've tried it out and now it works again...weird spawning indeed although I kind of liked not encountering those pesky brutes..oh well =)

kevin.granade · 2013-10-08T15:36:15.000Z

The reason it was inconsistent is that some of the zombies use the “old static” system, while most of them use the “new static” system.