Purple area on map?

[Bugs for breakfast]

any idea what the dark red/purple spot on the map that shows up where you've been hunting is?

[djinnxy]

hunting pressure. if it gets real bright purple animals won't come there as much.

[Megawolf]

This is hunting pressure. It forms when you hunt in an area and slowly disappears over time. While it is there, animals will avoid the area. Hunting pressure can also destroy need zones if it builds up too much.

Basically, don't hunt in the same place too much.

[Bugs for breakfast]

Originally posted by Gunhaver:

This is hunting pressure. It forms when you hunt in an area and slowly disappears over time. While it is there, animals will avoid the area. Hunting pressure can also destroy need zones if it builds up too much.

Basically, don't hunt in the same place too much.

Thanks!

[Chillum]

Originally posted by Gunhaver:

This is hunting pressure. It forms when you hunt in an area and slowly disappears over time. While it is there, animals will avoid the area. Hunting pressure can also destroy need zones if it builds up too much.

Basically, don't hunt in the same place too much.

Ive yet to see pressure kill off a need zone. If you hunt all the animals using a need zone however it will be gone. That might be what you noticed.

Also creating pressure in other areas will remove it faster from your map. There is a limit it reaches, and you can hit it much faster than merely waiting the pressure out.

[Megawolf]

Originally posted by Chillum:

Originally posted by Gunhaver:

This is hunting pressure. It forms when you hunt in an area and slowly disappears over time. While it is there, animals will avoid the area. Hunting pressure can also destroy need zones if it builds up too much.

Basically, don't hunt in the same place too much.

Ive yet to see pressure kill off a need zone. If you hunt all the animals using a need zone however it will be gone. That might be what you noticed.

Also creating pressure in other areas will remove it faster from your map. There is a limit it reaches, and you can hit it much faster than merely waiting the pressure out.

I didn't know about the limit, but I have definitely seen need zones completely disappear from my map after a huge slaughterfest where I murdered a ton of fallow deer around a lake when the trophy score on the buck I was following turned out to be just a few points too low for the Jager mission.

I stopped when I saw the remaining does trotting to my call to a certain range, then turning around and trotting away when they hit the area where the pressure was greatest. I guess it's possible that those animals weren't using the need zones the others were, but they definitely appeared to be from the same herd.

[Byron (Eastridge) SG]

Ive had need zones go away from hunting other species and not the ones using the need zone.
Hunted other things on purpose to test the pressure vs need zone.

[spede]

did purple areas miss or reset laterly?

[Feedback_]

Originally posted by Worm (Evil):

any idea what the dark red/purple spot on the map that shows up where you've been hunting is?

I think its the wind XD u can see the direction its blowing on the upper right on map. The purple area is towards the direction the wind is blowing . Thats what i think it is anwyays.

[Lazarus Long]

Originally posted by Chillum:

Originally posted by Gunhaver:

This is hunting pressure. It forms when you hunt in an area and slowly disappears over time. While it is there, animals will avoid the area. Hunting pressure can also destroy need zones if it builds up too much.

Basically, don't hunt in the same place too much.

Ive yet to see pressure kill off a need zone. If you hunt all the animals using a need zone however it will be gone. That might be what you noticed.

Also creating pressure in other areas will remove it faster from your map. There is a limit it reaches, and you can hit it much faster than merely waiting the pressure out.

This is real. Try it hunting Geese on Hirschfelden. It might take days before you find a spot that spawns a need zone where you can hunt them but in less than one game day hunting Geese you will destroy any needs zones at that spot.

[yogisgoat]

Originally posted by Byron (Eastridge) SG:

Ive had need zones go away from hunting other species and not the ones using the need zone.
Hunted other things on purpose to test the pressure vs need zone.

I've also seen need zones change species. Several times on Layton I've had a moose need zone transform into a rabbit zone once the hunting pressure got too high. If you keep going the pressure area can almost turn white.

[Rich-UK]

this was a necro from 6 years ago