Social and Population ?

[Oldhip]

If i reach the amount for "social" all is good, but if I increase the herd size towards "population" they start to fight between themselves. So can anyone tell me the true meaning of these two figures ?.

[Anlauf]

Social = Dinos of same species.
Population = Total of dinos in the same pen (including from own species).

Increase social do minimum +1.
Watch the population size and match species that support big populations.

[Woody]

Social is the number of their type they like to be around.

Population is the total number of dinos they can tolerate being around.

IMHO it is a bit silly. Not that they have these tolerance levels it is that enclosure size is not considered. A larger enclosure should allow for more other types of dinos being in there with them.

[Thyriel]

Originally posted by Woody:

Social is the number of their type they like to be around.

Population is the total number of dinos they can tolerate being around.

IMHO it is a bit silly. Not that they have these tolerance levels it is that enclosure size is not considered. A larger enclosure should allow for more other types of dinos being in there with them.

Actually larger enclosures somehow allow more total dinos. All of their stats including population are only calculated in a (pretty large) circle around them and not for the whole enclosure.

[Oldhip]

Thanks for the quick response guys, back to the drawing board :)

[Tane Mahuta]

Originally posted by Thyriel:

Originally posted by Woody:

Social is the number of their type they like to be around.

Population is the total number of dinos they can tolerate being around.

IMHO it is a bit silly. Not that they have these tolerance levels it is that enclosure size is not considered. A larger enclosure should allow for more other types of dinos being in there with them.

Actually larger enclosures somehow allow more total dinos. All of their stats including population are only calculated in a (pretty large) circle around them and not for the whole enclosure.

This is true, although the risk with the very large pen technique is that as dinosaurs move around at times they end up too clumped up and at other times they can get too far from their own species and start to incur comfort stress. Its probably okay with species that have a high comfort tolerance before they start smashing stuff, but I wouln't recommend it with low tolerance species like raptors.

[Thyriel]

Originally posted by Yakko Warner NZ:

Originally posted by Thyriel:

Actually larger enclosures somehow allow more total dinos. All of their stats including population are only calculated in a (pretty large) circle around them and not for the whole enclosure.

This is true, although the risk with the very large pen technique is that as dinosaurs move around at times they end up too clumped up and at other times they can get too far from their own species and start to incur comfort stress. Its probably okay with species that have a high comfort tolerance before they start smashing stuff, but I wouln't recommend it with low tolerance species like raptors.

I was just too lazy to explain my "somehow allow" more detailed ;)

[T-REX-KNIGHT]

My tip for sauropod mix with hadrosaurs is keep one side with the sauropod feeder with a ton of trees and the other side with a regular feeder

[Thyriel]

Originally posted by Meteor Strike:

My tip for sauropod mix with hadrosaurs is keep one side with the sauropod feeder with a ton of trees and the other side with a regular feeder

That somehow works to split them more or less but it may also result in dinos starving because they don't find their food within their current radius