Can't recruit new Apes

[Dioskouroi]

I'm down to 4 adult apes, 2 males and 2 females, including me, and 3 babies. I can't seem to find new females to mate with to get back up to 6 babies and 6 adults.

Is it because some of the babies remaining belong to females that are now dead? Do I need to kill her babies/lineage in order to get more females in the clan?

Been running around the jungle biome for over 3 hours using my senses and can't find any apes to recruit.

What do I lose if I skip a generation with only 3 babies?

Edit: At one point I had 3 females and 6 babies but as stated above there was casualties. Are you locked out of replenishing babies if you already had 6. Does the dead female offspring prevent you from getting more females that can breed?

[Cougarific]

You need to do a Generation leap to spawn new outsiders.

The names at the bottom of a female's info panel are her babies. It will tell you if one (or more) is dead.

Sounds like one of your females died before birthing any babies, so yeah... Change Generation now and look around for more outsiders.

When you find a female take her back to the settlement *immediately* and make babies as soon as possible.

Evolution leaps also spawn new outsiders but it doesn't sound like you're ready for one yet.

[Dioskouroi]

She didn't die before having babies, I had 6 at one point. What I'm wondering is if you can only have 6 babies in a generation. And if the babies of the dead female are blocking another female from spawning.

I only have 2 females and 3 babies right now but no new females are spawning on the map.

[Cougarific]

Right - each generation gets a certain number of outsiders (enough to bring the clan to 6 adults). If you add one, then they die, you won't get another until you Change Generation.

And correct, each clan can only have 6 babies max.

[Kiltley]

Hi, suggestion: (small detail for realism)

When clan member gets attacked and you jump in between to abrupt the attack, the animal comes after you. But the attacked clan member just keeps standing there to be attacked again after you're safe.

Would feel great, to get that realism in the game:
Let an attacked clan member go for the trees or run home or so, when the attack gets abrupted.

(it was an endless game of seeing 2 clan members standing still waiting to be attacked over and over, while I was constantly drawing the beast's attention)
(hero feeling is important in evolution!!! ;))

[Kiltley]

@ Maybe:

- when attack is simply a push that clan member is on the ground and he can stand up again, he stays in the fight

- when attack is the animal on top of clan member and the attack is abrupted by you, then the clan member should head for the top of the trees and wait there to be calmed/healed (he's now a panicking outsider)

(you could add this too, whit clan members bitten by a snake orso, that they become outsiders in need heading for the tree tops = new dimension in game)