Dozens of female red deer

[Wrioh]

I am a newish player, and I need help. I currently have two zones next to each other, and there are about 3 dozen female red deer and only about 4 males. Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong? There was a diamond and a mythical red deer in one of the zones. When I killed both of them that's when all the females started spawning. I don't know how to get rid of the female deer. PLEASE HELP ME!

[Nite69]

It does sometimes Yes animals will travel in herds

[MAGE]

kill them all or find another spot. red deer travel in groups

[ZAP]

If you shoot a bunch of them in one encounter the need zones will go away.

[Geronimo]

And yet some people continue to deny the possibility that unlocking zones on your map coincides with increased population in those areas.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by THEM4R10:

I am a newish player, and I need help. I currently have two zones next to each other, and there are about 3 dozen female red deer and only about 4 males. Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong? There was a diamond and a mythical red deer in one of the zones. When I killed both of them that's when all the females started spawning. I don't know how to get rid of the female deer. PLEASE HELP ME!

Why do you have a problem with the large herds? Does it affect your system performance?

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Geronimo:

And yet some people continue to deny the possibility that unlocking zones on your map coincides with increased population in those areas.

I recently posted about a herd of does becoming confused about what they should do after killing the stag in their herd. Usually in these herds there is one animal that is programmed to follow a daily pathway consisting of waypoints/need zones, and the rest of the herd is programmed to follow that lead animal. This assigned leader can be a male or female, and once it's killed another is usually programmed with its same pathway, possibly altered somewhat depending on particular dynamics of the hunting event, for example, hunting pressure applied.

My assumption is that there was a lapse in the reprogramming of a new lead animal for the herd to follow.

Is there some recent bug causing this? I haven't played enough recently to jump to any conclusion.

Another thing to watch for is when a spawn point gets piled up on after a lead animal spawns there and gets stuck in a terrain glitch and can't move any further. Every animal that spawns there afterward can also be stuck there, or all animals programmed to follow the stuck lead animal will just hang there confused about where to go.

This can put entire herds out of play on a map until that stuck animal is killed, and another is assigned.

However, this glitch was supposedly resolved long ago.

[yogisgoat]

Different animals follow different herding rules. Groups of Roosevelt elk are usually (but not always) all the same sex. For deer of all kinds large groups are usually mostly female. Think harems with a large male watching over them. My point is that you are pretty much always going to see far more females than males no matter what you do.