Killing All Rival Packs?

[Jill]

Hi all!

I was wondering if it was possible to kill all rival packs and claim the whole map? Or do new packs spawn in or what?

[crys]

New packs will spawn in.

[Jill]

Makes sense but aww I wanted to conquer the entire map u_u

[FlickForever]

Well I mean you could... just kill off the new packs too yknow... >:3

[littlepaws]

It's difficult, but you can. i haven't attempted it yet.

[Schwoebz]

I found that once you kill both pack leaders(male and female), the territory slowly starts to dissipate and a new rival pack wont show up until the entire territory has dissipated. Maybe once you've got both pack leaders down, taking the territory will be much easier but if the 2nd or 3rd pack starts a Territory invasion, they'll keep taking your territory until you stop them; so staying close to your border will be important to not lose progress. I'm not sure how long it takes but after a while the subs, yearlings and pups that where a part of the pack you just ended will become dispersals or die but for a time, they may try to stay in the pack territory and will be aggressive if you enter the territory (maybe 2 or 3 in game days? I'm not 100% sure) but hey seem easier to scare off with a few growls, snarls or bites.
The new pack that comes in will take over the open space you made when you took out the rival pack. But if you fill the space before a rival pack can spawn in, I'm not sure how the rival pack will spawn. (Maybe they'll try to take over one of your rivals first or start in your territory as a Territory Invasion? Gonna have to test it out.)

Disclaimer: This is all stuff I found out in the beta so if there's been any changes from the beta to the main game update, I'm not aware of them yet.

Hope this helps :)

[Depressed_Cat]

TBH I don't think it's worth it to conquer the entire map. That's just a LOT of work that's impossible to keep up with for not much benefit. There's plenty of elk in strategically placed small territories that are 1/4th of the map or less.

But for the fun of it, if you don't want to focus on pups or anything like that, it could be a good challenge.

[topp]

It's possible, but just keep in mind that other packs will continue to appear and try to take your land, so you will have to keep fighting to retain it.

[Lone Wolf]

Originally posted by Depressed_Cat:

TBH I don't think it's worth it to conquer the entire map. That's just a LOT of work that's impossible to keep up with for not much benefit. There's plenty of elk in strategically placed small territories that are 1/4th of the map or less.

But for the fun of it, if you don't want to focus on pups or anything like that, it could be a good challenge.

It would be if rival packs eventually stopped spawning. In that way you would only have to worry about natural predators and not so much land control. And lets say to keep new packs from spawning, you would have to keep control of a certain percentage of the map. Just a thought.

[Depressed_Cat]

Originally posted by Lone Wolf:

Originally posted by Depressed_Cat:

TBH I don't think it's worth it to conquer the entire map. That's just a LOT of work that's impossible to keep up with for not much benefit. There's plenty of elk in strategically placed small territories that are 1/4th of the map or less.

But for the fun of it, if you don't want to focus on pups or anything like that, it could be a good challenge.

It would be if rival packs eventually stopped spawning. In that way you would only have to worry about natural predators and not so much land control. And lets say to keep new packs from spawning, you would have to keep control of a certain percentage of the map. Just a thought.

I don't think rival packs will stop spawning, though. And I don't think they would add that as a feature because that's just unrealistic and removes a big part of the challenges that wolves face in real life.

No matter how big a wolf's territory is, they're always fighting for territory with other wolves.

[Lone Wolf]

@Depressed_Cat: Agreed, it would eventually remove a lot of the challenge. Maybe a "Rival Packs Respawn" option or something like that. I'm good either way. Just found it funny I came on the forums to look up this exact question and pow, first topic on the list.

[tianyiguo68]

I tried taking over the whole map in the saga beta, but even then the new wolf pack(s) would still squeeze out at the edges of the map, even if that territory was previously 100% occupied
hope this helps

[AndeTheWolf]

its very hard to do this but still pretty possible, take out the female and male pack leaders and the pack just kinda goes away (killing of subs and yearlings speeds this up) but its annoying to manage all the hexes, sorry if this is a bit hard to understand im awful at words

[Reverend0120]

Is it possible to edit files so rival packs don't spawn/respawn? Like, change an integer so the respawn timer is ridiculously high?
It would be nice to have game options for rival pack respawn rates (or none at all) and territorial degradation.

[bk]

My home territory is in Sough Creek near McBride Lake. I claimed all the hexes to the side and to the top of the map which cut down the number of pack attacks considerably. This with the natural barrier of the lake means that most attacks come only from one side. I also try to take out at least one of the pack leaders of rival packs that attack. That also seems to slow them.

[SuperLaurenSparkles]

It is possible, after both pack leaders are dead and the territory starts to disappear, claim it before another pack spawns.