Fog Islands are empty

[droCHILLo]

So, during one of my adventures, I went to the Fog Islands to recruit Beep and found the location is empty. The entire time I was there I only saw 2 prince and soldier patrols and 0 normal fogmen patrols. After a while, I visited the Fog Islands again, but nothing had changed.
I started a new game to test if they would spawn and the result was a little different - several princes' patrols and one patrol of regular fogmen, but after some time everything return to usual - few prince patrols and 0 regular patrols. Dead yards are present and inhabited by ordinary fogmen. I play with Reactive world, Hives Expanded, Mist ghouls and Fog Hunt (also I have General Balance Fixes and Shidan's Tweaks and Fixes if they somehow affect Fog Islands). Actually, I have a lot of other mods but they mostly add armor, weapon, patches, interior stuff. In short, things that do not affect the Fog Islands and fogmen.

Thanks for any help

[Bomb Bloke]

Originally posted by дід на аві:

So, during one of my adventures, I went to the Fog Islands to recruit Beep and found the location is empty.

By this do you mean Mongrel was empty?

I don't find it unusual to make it to the middle of the zone without any fogmen encounters, if that's all that you're asking about.

[The Mighty Mulletman]

It's more to do with happenstance I think. In my first game the first house I bought was in Mongrel. I passed through a lot and had permant residents in town. Sometimes passing through the foglands is like walking through a semi permanent cloud of fogmen with a new patrol or two appearing as soon as one is down. Other times you pass through and the fog seems eerily empty, the fogmen are off patrolling elsewhere or were intercepted and killed off somewhere you didn't see, their patrol routes seem quite wide so a trip of peace and quiet happens sometimes.

If you want to test population density, try baiting in prince patrols by filling a death yard with a few living bodies, using Fogmen seems to work and the more deathyards you can find in close proximity to fill, the better.

After the death yard is 'dead' it still attracts princes but it can take a while for them to arrive or notice.

[Synopse]

Originally posted by дід на аві:

The entire time I was there I only saw 2 prince and soldier patrols and 0 normal fogmen patrols. After a while, I visited the Fog Islands again, but nothing had changed.
I started a new game to test if they would spawn and the result was a little different - several princes' patrols and one patrol of regular fogmen, but after some time everything return to usual - few prince patrols and 0 regular patrols. Dead yards are present and inhabited by ordinary fogmen.

That is because respawn in Kenshi only happens when LOADING a game. (There are a few exceptions but not relevant in this case.) Make a save and load it and you will notice that all dead yards are gone and replaced by respawns somewhere else.

Plus, it is possible to run through a zone and not even meet a single squard, because all other squads are moving too and missing each other will happen more often. That is a reason why lost persons should stay where they are, because of that.