Aging/Growth Balances

[hearty vault]

Some animals (cough Carchar* cough) have unbalanced growth and death ages that should probably be revised.

The Carchar is obvious, growing almost 50% faster and living over 50% longer than the T. rex
The Brown Camara matures at 12 years, I think 14 years would suit better, that way the Camara skins mature at 13, 14, and 15 years
The Charanosaurus too lives a little too long, maybe it could do with being bumped down to early forties like the Iguanodon

The others are all good/decent though, especially in death age, this post is mostly a gripe on the Carchar though anyway

In addition, the newst patch notes say the growth rates have been slowed down across the board, when the Paleopedia says that all animals now grow 30% faster

[elder island]

The times listed are now sexual maturity

[hearty vault]

I see that, but does that also count to growth size? Or do they reach maturity when they reach the 'adult stage'

Okay, just checked, it does

So I guess the animals still grow as fast as they did before

[elder island]

The ages listed before were for 100% growth iirc

[hearty vault]

I see

I still stand by the Carcha being unbalanced in the aging department though

[lethal gale]

What's unbalanced about Carcharadontosaurus living longer than T.rex? They're both megatheropods and to give them distinct identity in-game their statistics are made different. Or are you saying that because T.rex is the ¨king of dinosaurs¨ it should outlive any other living creature?

[timber juniper]

It is realistic. Studies on Meraxes showed that it was around or over 50 years old when it died, making it the longest living theropod dinosaur. PK is just extending that knowledge to apply to large carchsrodontosaurs in general.

No Rex specimen died well past 30, by contrast.

[carmine wolf]

We don't know that

[timber juniper]

Don't we? It was in the Meraxes paper.

If you're referring to the efficacy of the method, it's the best we have for determining age. Naturally there is the "grain of salt" to take it with, but it is all we have.

It's less dubious than other things that people like to obsess over, like single bone size estimates, for one.

[carmine wolf]

I was referring to the rex age

Only a small handful of rex specimens have ever been tested for that

The minimum oldest, assuming nothing like bone remodeling happens, was 28 years at time of death for Sue

But she didn't die of old age

It was the parasites in her jaw

[timber juniper]

Aah gotcha. I know about sue's parasites, but afaik she isn't the minimum oldest, Trix was at least 30.

[carmine wolf]

Trix has been claimed as such

But I've never seen an actual paper say such

I could have missed it, if you have a first hand source that says it tho please do share