Need zone reset

[Lonewhulf]

Is it possible to reset the need zones for a single map without affecting the others?

[cbrrrman]

why bother ? they constantly change once established.
On LL's I harvested a rabbit and it altered my bear drink zone to a rabbit drink zone.
Happens a lot. With every animal.
But changing zones when harvesting an animal ? really : |
I usually avoid and ignore rabbits now.

[Lonewhulf]

I have inactive zones after a pop reset on layton after I was having an issue with white tail. They also display the previous times(specifically blacktail)I would delete them by producing pressure...but they don't get used so not really an option

[Geronimo]

Learn the various interactions that cause NZs to change.

For ex.-

Clicking on tracks inside a zone.

Spotting a species inside a zone.

Clicking on animal signature inside a zone.

If you have a NZ setup for hunting your favorite prey, you must avoid doing anything that will delete, or alter that zone's association with your favorite target.

So when using your scope or Vinod you cannot click on other species, or NZ will be reassociated with the species you spot.

Also, be careful clicking on tracks that you think are made by your desired target species, only to find out they were not. Just because you saw deer feeding in your deer zone, doesn't mean other animals won't leave their feeding/drinking sign there as well. Many NZs are altered by hunters clicking on feed sign only to find out it was rabbit sign, and you just inadvertently reassociated the zone to rabbits.

Sometimes when an animal drops, it will fall into of a track/sign that can mistakenly be clicked on when you try to harvest it. And many hunters will reassign their favorite zone to another species by making this mistake.

The game teaches us many bad habits, and the worst of all is clicking on tracks without being sure what they belong to, trying to ID them, or clicking on animals in scope or binocs to ID them.

You need to learn to avoid those habits of you're going to be managing Need Zones and establishing and nurturing favorite hunting grounds for a specific species.

[Yuccasu]

From my experience the need zones of the previous animals are still present and active.

Since one of the last updates you can see it because there is a list of animals when you hover a need zone. Unfortunately there is a bug so that only one or two of the previous animals are in the list.

[Poltergeist]

Originally posted by Geronimo:

So when using your scope or Vinod you cannot click on other species, or NZ will be reassociated with the species you spot.

Won't comment on the entire post, but this part isn't accurate for me at least. Nowadays, the game displays multiple animal species that use the same zone by hovering over it on the map. Happy to provide a screenshot.

[ASGJaxy]

Originally posted by high-in-the-sky:

From my experience the need zones of the previous animals are still present and active.

Since one of the last updates you can see it because there is a list of animals when you hover a need zone. Unfortunately there is a bug so that only one or two of the previous animals are in the list.

This is correct. The animals do not overwrite zones. It will however show the last interacted animal at that zone as stated further up in the comments. Each species will be active at the zone unless that zone is deleted.

[Pinger]

Since they made need zones stack, only time you delete a need zone is if either you shoot 4 animals from it without using a hide/stand/tripod creating dark pink pressure or said need zone only has one animal using it.

e.g. bears / male moose regularly have zones with only 1 animal using it, shoot it and it's gone until a new animal is spotted using it again.

But its not recommended but you can reset the population file for each reserve removing all need zones for all animals and you have to discover them all again.

Find the corresponding file for each reserve and delete the file then the game on next startup creates a new one with no found need zones. NB backup the file before you attempt this, at your own risk

\myDocuments\Avalanche Studios\COTW\Saves\longnumbers folder name - in there find the coresponding animal_population_0 too animal_population_9 file for the reserve.

easy way is to visit the reserve ingame / fully close the game and sort the file location location in you pc's myDocs location by date and its the most recent animal_population

[Soltyk]

Originally posted by Pinger:

[...]But its not recommended but you can reset the population file for each reserve [...]

Why isn't it recommended? Apart from the fact that it's cheating.

[Pinger]

delete the wrong file with no backups and you reset your profile and have to start again, so factoring in the Human element