Hunting
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:08 pm
Right now the only two food animals to hunt are deer and rabbits I believe. I admit I have not hunted the big cats yet but from what I gather you get no meat from a kill as you also do not get meat from wolves. Swine and cattle are not hunted. You just follow them around and bash them until they fall.
Hunting deer is basically the same thing but you have the difficulty of threading your way through the trees to keep the animal in sight.(I am referring to hunting with a bow of course.) Rabbits are killed the same as the domesticated animals. You follow the poor rabbit around and whack at it until it dies.
I would love to see the wild animals given a more sporting chance. When you target a wild animal it will react when you cause the first damage by moving away from the hunter rather than the random movement that often brings it right back to the hunter that is trying to kill it. If this happens
then the hunter is forced to follow(track) the prey to some extent. It wouldn't be a bad thing if the prey animals were also able to move a little faster? Hunting would become a bit more of a challenge
and I think a bit more enjoyable. It should be difficult if not impossible to hunt a deer with a sword!
I also have an idea for a new game animal. Woodcocks or Partridge. A wild bird that would be found in the less wooded areas. It would be sitting on the ground until approached. When the hunter gets too close the bird will fly away a short distance. It should be impossible to get any closer than two tiles to the animal until it is killed. No hunting the birds with hand weapons would be possible. The hunter will learn how close they can get before taking a shot. It would give meat and entrails and perhaps every so often an egg.(Since in our world there are no domesticated fowl. And yet we are able to bake cakes without eggs!) They would be found all over the map but not in great numbers.
Hunting deer is basically the same thing but you have the difficulty of threading your way through the trees to keep the animal in sight.(I am referring to hunting with a bow of course.) Rabbits are killed the same as the domesticated animals. You follow the poor rabbit around and whack at it until it dies.
I would love to see the wild animals given a more sporting chance. When you target a wild animal it will react when you cause the first damage by moving away from the hunter rather than the random movement that often brings it right back to the hunter that is trying to kill it. If this happens
then the hunter is forced to follow(track) the prey to some extent. It wouldn't be a bad thing if the prey animals were also able to move a little faster? Hunting would become a bit more of a challenge
and I think a bit more enjoyable. It should be difficult if not impossible to hunt a deer with a sword!
I also have an idea for a new game animal. Woodcocks or Partridge. A wild bird that would be found in the less wooded areas. It would be sitting on the ground until approached. When the hunter gets too close the bird will fly away a short distance. It should be impossible to get any closer than two tiles to the animal until it is killed. No hunting the birds with hand weapons would be possible. The hunter will learn how close they can get before taking a shot. It would give meat and entrails and perhaps every so often an egg.(Since in our world there are no domesticated fowl. And yet we are able to bake cakes without eggs!) They would be found all over the map but not in great numbers.
