Red Ants want you gone...

[BenchWarmer]

I received this message without ever seeing "Aware" or "Annoyed". I have only killed 3 of them.

Is this normal?

They haven't attacked yet, but I guess they're primed.

Thanks.

[Plake]

How often did you enter their hill in the west? Also stealing their eggs and hanging out in their lair (even with Red Ant Armor) pi$$es them off eventually...

[steventirey]

Yeah, you don't have to kill them to make them angry. There are several territories throughout the yard - just being in one will make that specific insect angry over time.

[BenchWarmer]

So, what you're telling me is there is no progression. You could jump immediately to "want you gone", if conditions are right.

I've never entered their hill. I don't have their armor. I discovered the abandoned ant hill near oak lab, but i didn't go inside.

So, I have no idea why they hate me. lol

[ulzgoroth]

Originally posted by BenchWarmer:

So, what you're telling me is there is no progression. You could jump immediately to "want you gone", if conditions are right.

Nobody told you that, in fact.

Originally posted by BenchWarmer:

I've never entered their hill. I don't have their armor. I discovered the abandoned ant hill near oak lab, but i didn't go inside.

So, I have no idea why they hate me. lol

Their territories aren't only the nests. AIUI much of the back yard is 'territory' of one type or another.

Though it does seem weird for you to have managed to provoke them to that extent suddenly if you literally only killed three. Of course, if you simply failed to notice the lower threat level messages, then this wouldn't be sudden at all...

[Draziray]

We also got "Want you gone" from Red Ants without seeing any of the other messages. I'm new to the game, and until I found this thread I didn't know there was progression on the faction relations.

But, we also killed like... a lot of them. Enough to fully kit two of us in red ant armor, make a red ant club, make a repair tool, and have some leftovers. And we did it in the first couple of hours of the game. Plus our base is pretty close to the starting field station which is very near the red ant hill.

So I'm just kind of assuming we did the murder so rapidly, by the time it checked for updated relation status, we'd already progressed.

[FoamySlobbers]

I think, but not certain, that if you steal food that the ants take. as in Hot dogs, cookies, apple bits. even weevils. they will give you that message. I just got it after stealing food from them.