COTW Hunt Generator: Ranger Version

[Mr Generik]

About a year ago, Jonathan J. O'Neill created The COTW Tag Generator. It was, and is, a great little piece of software to generate semi-random hunting tasks within the game. I loved it, but I realized it wasn't getting updated for Te Awaroa. So, after some googling and learning how the code functioned, I got good enough at copy and paste to add the new reserve, and make some changes to suit my personal taste while I was at it. Posting it here so that anyone can use it, if they like my changes.

I would again like to stress that Jonathan J. O'Neill created the original version of this, and my version could not possibly exist without his work. Thank you, Jonathan, and I hope you don't mind some heinous piggybacking!



So, the changes:

I shifted the focus from "Acquiring a tag to legally hunt" to having the parks or representatives request your assistance as a professional hunter. It gives it, I think, a more conservationist feel, and makes the hunts feel more like ad hoc missions instead of pure trophy hunting. This is pure fluff and impacts absolutely nothing.

I added more specific tasks than just having a species and a limit. Now, there are a few randomly assigned options such as "Acquire Exceptional (diamond) Specimen For Display," "Acquire Atypical Specimen," and "Population Management (Harvest 5 of any sex, 10 for waterfowl)" Just a bit of flavor to make your new hunts just that more tedious!

Similarly, I added some "Special Requirements" for that 'field research' or 'naturalist' vibe. Sometimes you'll need to preserve specific organs, or (my favorite) use the smallest legal ammunition to preserve the pelt. This is new since my last post, if you saw that one.

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ around with the weapon classes, and put break-action rifles and shotguns into their own category. Just cause. I tried to minimize the possibility of getting an invalid/unrealistic weapon type for an animal, so I put them both together so you can hunt anything class 1-9 with every category of weapon. With bows... it's still a crapshoot. Bowhunting ducks is fun, though, right?

I made some random verbiage changes just to make it sound cleaner to me, but that's subjective.



The end result, I hope, is a task/mission generator that feels like you have been assigned a specific task for a reason, instead of just getting a trophy hunting tag. I know that's not what everyone wants out of the game, but I like that sense of purpose. It keeps me from just shooting whatever's in front of me in pointless and increasingly unsatisfying slaughter. This is obviously intended for endgame content, as there are a lot of options that you can roll and not have adequate equipment yet.



Here you go: https://perchance.org/cotw-hunt-generator

So, I hope you like it! And thanks again, Jonathan O'Neill!

[Huntermist]

oh this is clever

[Bolkie]

99% awesome :)

I you add scoring to the missions (bronze, silver, gold requirements) it will be 100%.

[MaxDestro]

This is great, thank you. I hope you plan to update it to include Mississippi

[plugger]

Well done!

[dbump]

This is awesome! I'd also be thrilled if you added Mississippi Acres.

[Mr Generik]

Updated for Mississippi. Thanks for reminding me to do it, guys. Haven't been playing much.

[JanfriWein]

Little late for the comment, but dude you are the man!. Thank you very much!!