[FEEDBACK] Too Many Spiders!

[Darena]

I'm not afraid of them or anything, but man... there seems to be at least ten spiders near me at any given moment in the game right now. If not full adults, then the younger and baby ones, all over the place, all the time. Only ants seem to outnumber them, emphasis on 'seems to'. And it doesn't make sense.

If you think about it, the number of spiders would need enough other creatures to feed them all in the park, which there doesn't seem to be enough of. Mites, Aphids and Weevils are in short supply, though there are some around. Everything else is as likely to kill the spiders as the spiders are to kill them, with some being highly likely to do so. Even the ants, which could be killed, tend to work together enough to make fights too risky; spiders wouldn't willingly crawl into an ants nest in RL by a long shot.

There needs to be a larger range of non predator insects added to the mix for this number of spiders to make sense. And though I know it's meant to be part of the flow of the game, I don't think the spiders would be reproducing like that with the lack of food insects for them to feed off of. It would just cause starvation, or for them to have to eat their own young to survive. Granted Ominent could have been influencing things to have more predators in the park to experiment on, but I don't know about that. ^^;

[NukeGoose]

if we are chasing the realism of a game why not complain about the sheer number of scorpions, which is by far the largest population of insects. if a park had this many scorpions it would be deemed unsafe for kids/public use and an exterminator would be called.

that said if you are currently having an issue with the ammount of spiders arround then i feel it safe to say you need to explore more. mites are all over the place in groups of 2-6, larva and grubs are plentiful, and like i said, scorpions. plus in a couple areas you have the roach numbers. i also offer up the problem of culling the herd. if you dont kill the spiders more still come when they chase you and leave their spawn zone. im built right above a spider den and i still run into more scorpions than spiders because those buggers also have a random spawn chance it seems.