Chamois Drink Time

[naive sequoia]

As of right now, chamois do not have a drink time. They used to, but it was removed. I get that having animals with no drink times adds to the diversity of the game, but does that necessarily make it realistic? There is currently no animals drinking from the times 18-3 on Te Awaroa, a 7 hour time period. I feel that a drink time in that time period would be beneficial, like a 3 hour drink time from 18-21.

I’ve included a map where they should drink.

If you have any additional thoughts or suggestions, feel free to add on

[austere minnow]

Yeah, I think if all the rest/feed zones stayed where they are, but they had the drink zone, they could be hunted on the lakes, but could also still be hunted on the mountains for the people who enjoy that type of hunting.

[lofty ridge]

This would be excellent. Also springbok could benefit from this as well.
Also make chamois drink time like 13-17 or something

[acoustic trout]

Personally I like it the way it is now, that they don't come down from the mountains and have a different hunting method, it's really boring and it becomes too easy to hunt all the animals in the same way from the lakes 👌

[hallow zinc]

Well they try to make sure drink times don’t overlap. Which is why the time should be 18-21, since nothing drinks then

[lofty ridge]

I just don't want it in the dark

[hallow zinc]

That’s the price to pay to having a chamois drink time again. Can’t ask for everything

[lofty ridge]

Nevermind

[hallow zinc]

Feral goats

[lofty ridge]

Combine their chamois drink time with red deer.

[swift roost]

Now that I think about it, if they did do a desert map somewhere in either Africa, Asia or the USA (Gould’s Turkey), they could make it so certain species don’t have drink zones as a number of animals can get their water from the food they eat such as the Addax Antelope (a potential species for a Texas reserve).

Just a thought I had regarding the topic of drink times.

[acoustic trout]

It's actually quite realistic, the Chamois do not need to drink liquid water, in winter they do not come down from the mountains since the snow covers the rocks and their hooves have no traction, they can go two weeks without feeding and only eat snow to hydrate, they get hydration by eating the snow.
In high mountains, the energy consumption necessary to go down and up just to drink is not justified, so sometimes they choose to consume the snow

[shell mauve]

Dang that guy's a diamond for sure

[austere minnow]

Looks like a big gold to me

[rustic storm]

Even tho they overlapped for 4 years and it was completely fine

[hallow zinc]

They changed it didn’t they? That’s what they’re pushing for now

[rustic storm]

Yeah well it's stupid. Really stupid. It's not like that rule applies to anything irl it's not realistic. It's not fun to only see one species at a time

[shell mauve]

I think it's fun

[hallow zinc]

If you really wanna get into it, there shouldn’t be such a thing as “need zones.”
Animals will be drinking whenever they want, same with feeding and resting. It’s based on their biological needs. So, by that logic, we should also get rid of need zones completely

Should we also get rid of respawning and actually have growth mechanics so that it takes weeks to see new deer that have to grow to size?
There’s many things that have to be adapted to allow for gameplay that isn’t ridiculously boring. Sure, it might not make sense that only one species is drinking at a time, I don’t know why EW chose to do it like this but that’s the way it is.

[austere minnow]

Ain’t that kinda like woth

[lofty ridge]

Not kind of. That's exactly like way of the hunter.

[rustic storm]

That would be AMAZING but EW would never

[hallow zinc]

I’d rather general zones that animals have a “frequency” of occupying, where they drink, eat and rest at depending on time of day. That way the herds aren’t always in the same spots

But that would require a complete rework of one of the game’s fundamental mechanics, so I’m gonna keep my suggestions within the direction the game’s going rn

[tacit tree]

bump

[shy jewel]

True

[wheat sinew]

Ngl I forgot these existed

Who even hunts for them

[shy jewel]

Me I have all the rares and diamond they're a beloved species

[wheat sinew]

Bet

What do the furs even look like

[shy jewel]

? I can send you pics lol