gateway feels empty

[BUCK]

so, i took a brake before the map came out, like half a year or so. then i started playing again, it was all cool and fun but;

there are literally no people. no Ai. the map feels so empty even on a 100/100 server.
maybe i am missing something here? or how exactly are we suppossed to play the game when we can't find other players or AI to hunt down?

[Lisa]

AI seems to be spawning in low population servers, and they are spawning plentiful!
As for players, they will either be at the migration zone, or at South Plains!

[Maloudre]

Originally posted by BUCK:

so, i took a brake before the map came out, like half a year or so. then i started playing again, it was all cool and fun but;

there are literally no people. no Ai. the map feels so empty even on a 100/100 server.
maybe i am missing something here? or how exactly are we suppossed to play the game when we can't find other players or AI to hunt down?

They drasticly reduced ai from bad game design choices, just check other threads about it. You can find a few stuck here and there. Turtles seems to spawn more often. Go to south plains the rest of the map is deserted most of the time because of it. You will hardly find annything in migration zones.

[wel]

Despite the devs "best efforts" hot spotting is still terrible. East plains & South plains, by the main water sources are where everyone hangs out.

AI is currently majorly busted. They don't move/interact, they just scream and sit in place & only spawn in highly populated areas (making the hot spot issue worse). If you want any semblance of survival or just general player interaction go to east or southern plains.

[Evil Minіоn]

AI now spawns around players, so carnivores have much less reason to move around (get punished for it even).

This was apparently done for performance reasons, but it really messes up the distribution.

[Vibe.]

Originally posted by BUCK:

so, i took a brake before the map came out, like half a year or so. then i started playing again, it was all cool and fun but;

there are literally no people. no Ai. the map feels so empty even on a 100/100 server.
maybe i am missing something here? or how exactly are we suppossed to play the game when we can't find other players or AI to hunt down?

I am much more worried about how people behave, there are still hackers , and they aren't controlled and if you noticed they ARE never alone , but if you make video the proof is given (mainly if you are not banned from the islecord)

[Crimedog]

Originally posted by Evil Minіоn:

AI now spawns around players, so carnivores have much less reason to move around (get punished for it even).

This was apparently done for performance reasons, but it really messes up the distribution.

Is this true/still the case?

Can anyone confirm?
It would explain why my dinos are not seeing AI, I don't do much stopping as a baby until I find my first meal...

[Lisa]

Originally posted by Crimedog:

Originally posted by Evil Minіоn:

AI now spawns around players, so carnivores have much less reason to move around (get punished for it even).

This was apparently done for performance reasons, but it really messes up the distribution.

Is this true/still the case?

Can anyone confirm?
It would explain why my dinos are not seeing AI, I don't do much stopping as a baby until I find my first meal...

It is true, on low population servers at least.
Idk about crowded ones.
I’m a server owner and i see from a dozen to 30 AI around me even as a Herbivore on my low pop server.

But they don’t spawn as close as you might think.
For a scale example: if you are at the small Dam at Highlands, there can be up to 30 AI around you, but they will be across all Highlands.
So you still need to search for them.

[Crimedog]

So I need to find a low pop but not empty server in order to play.

Why is the beach south of the rail empty every time?

If you are right, it's because I didn't stop moving.

I'll go give it 10 tries and see what happens.

[Sir Harlz]

Because the gameplay at the moment is god awful. It encourages avoiding doing anything. Eat, drink, sit in a bush till you are fully grown because every player on the maps wants you dead and moving is punished harshly by more starvation and stamina loss. The map design is also pretty bad in gateway, the constant cliffs that block your path and force you run around the edges in the dark are annoying af.

The game in it's current state encourages doing nothing.