How to get gold scores?

[ChaosMind42]

i have a quest on Hirschfelden where i need to down 2 fallow deers but they have to be gold score but even when i get 100% on every rating i only get silver score in the end and it seems to get harder to find male fallow deers having class 3 or higher. So what else do i need to improve to get better scores?

[DarkFalz]

You just have to find fallow deer that are big enough to make gold. I think they can make it at level 3 but it's a lot more likely if they're level 4.

[Sokurah]

lvl 4 is safe bet, usually. I had a lvl4 blacktail iirc that only had one good antler, at it was silver.

3 can give gold too, if the trophy rating is good enough. Look for those with real big antlers.

[ChaosMind42]

is it completely random to find such exemplar or can it be influenced somehow?

[Rookie-31st]

It is random but not completely. There are always some Lvl4 fallow deer on the map, just need to find them. Keep in mind that Lvl4 would be more cautious than Lvl3 and will flee sooner so be a bit more patient and careful

[DaddyJokee]

Originally posted by ChaosMind42(GER):

is it completely random to find such exemplar or can it be influenced somehow?

I read on Reddit that when you kill a male, that male will respawn elsewhere on the map a level higher.

If it is true, it basically scales with progression. If you hunt male deer, eventually you'll run into a big'un.

[Rookie-31st]

If it were true, shooting all bucks below max level would eventually lead to a reserve full of max level bucks, but it is not happening.

[ChaosMind42]

Well it would be too good to be true because that is what im actually doing but on the contrary i have the feeling that it makes things worse because now im increasingly witnessing groups of only female deer and if the game is half realistic that cant be good or doesn't it matter at all?

[SouthernMan1972]

Originally posted by DaddyJokee:

I read on Reddit that when you kill a male, that male will respawn elsewhere on the map a level higher.

I think the prevailing theory is that if you kill a male, then another will respawn within one difficulty level of the one you harvested. So it could be one higher or lower, or maybe the same. Otherwise, as Rookie said, the map would eventually be diamonds only. The challenge would change to trying to find that rare non-diamond that's still left on the map.

I don't know if anything has ever been confirmed by a developer, though. It just makes sense that the game would reward you for harvesting the best trophies you can find. The more good ones you harvest, the better chance you'll find even better ones later.

[El Poto]

Search for "COTW Herd Management" on Youtube. it's really not needed for golds, but answers the questions in this topic.

[Le Leon]

Originally posted by El Poto:

Search for "COTW Herd Management" on Youtube. it's really not needed for golds, but answers the questions in this topic.

Originally posted by DaddyJokee:

Originally posted by ChaosMind42(GER):

is it completely random to find such exemplar or can it be influenced somehow?

I read on Reddit that when you kill a male, that male will respawn elsewhere on the map a level higher.

If it is true, it basically scales with progression. If you hunt male deer, eventually you'll run into a big'un.

Use Animal Population Scanner while shooting animals. You see live, what you shot and what spawns for the dead animal. Then you see what happens to the theory and herd management.

Before i would use herd management, i would reroll the animal population file until the DIA will be created in the desired animal type. That way the spawn gambling game, what happens on herd management, will be done within 1 second on 150-800 tries, depending on total amount of the animal on the map. Herd managment is a chore with a very weak outcome while eating a lot of lifetime.