Manhunter balance / realism

Started by 2wit, February 06, 2017, 10:50:56 PM

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2wit

A couple suggestions for improving manhunter turned animals. Although not bugs, per se, the behavior is certainly unexpected.

1) Distance limit for manhunter aggro response. I once tried to get rid of a colonist by attacking a cougar across the map. The cougar turned manhunter, sprinted across the map to my colony, and navigated an open door maze. It was ridiculous; why would the cougar care about other colonists? More realistic would be an intermediate state like 'enraged' where cougar attacks any human who wanders too close.

2) When hunted pack animals like deer trigger manhunter, how about rolling for how many in the pack turn? i.e. more frequent manhunter response, but usually 1-2 animals instead of 100.  Could lean toward ignore as distance from hunted animal increases.