greatscythe11 wrote: Please feel free to offer your suggestions for improvements, criticisms, any necessary corrections as well as any other observations you want to share.The attached files are both in word and pdf so if someone wants to take it forward thats also fine by me.
Really Nice content! ,I would like to add some points here:
Its easy to detect back herds , How?
Well, you can detect them by the number of shots u fired for herding , take any herding animal (probably vanilla animals) eg , take a herd of Bison , so from the origin you herd it ,
it takes 8 shots to reach the maximum distance , no matter what the animal all have the same mechanics ( 8 shots) remember that one ,you can try this when playing offline pick a animal u want to herd and at the 8th shot you reached the maximum distance that the herd can go , beyond that back herd happens ie at the 9th shot , so now if you keep in mind the no of shots u fired by the vill u can probably predict when will the back herd will occur , even Rikikipu tested the back herd mechanics , check this tested by Rikikipu
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/40655733 . So from seeing the video , you can see that bison can go as far as 80m and after that u shoot , the bisons retreats comes back to 60m , well 10m = 1 shot , if you shoot once the bison will move 10m , so when back herd happens u loose 2 shots and again u have to shoot it 2 times to bring back at the max distance. So this is in case of Bison , in case of other animals this is not the same , it depends on the animal , the fact is
more the Animals & food more distance it can go and vice-versa . So in that video if you check the distance covered by the deer it doesn't go as far as the bison , why? which is explained above . Still not satisfied? you can test them by yourself in scenario or playing vs comp.Well you can anticipate the maximum distance the herd can go only from the origin/epicentre if you herd the animal like at the 15th min , the herd would have probably moved from the origin so you guess the back herd at like 7th or like the 8th shot.Hope u understood the herding mechanics.
When to herd? Which animal should i herd first in the map ,were there are more than 1 type of animal?This doubt will be in your head right? For this lets take a simple example , so if you are playing on great plains map , there are 2 types of animals viz deer, bison.Many will tend to rely on the bison and herd the bison than the deer? but why? so many may simply don't know the reason and just do it since everyone does it , so for those this would help , So imagine a situation where there are 2 animals on the left and right side of the map at a considerable distance ,where you can herd them towards your town centre , which one will you go first? In this situation we are taking that both the herds are the at the same distance from the tc , you must probably hunt the bison one because , it has more food and it can go to far distances since it has more food and the no of animals is more it will go far then the deer,that's why you wanna herd that first after that the deer , herding bison will give you more food and maximize the efficiency of your vills gathering and reduce your vills secs preventing less walking.So this applies for all the animals in the game.
It doesn't work for animals like elephant , tad animals, one of the reasons could be like for elephant there wont be like 10 elephants probably like 2-3 so it wont go far will move just a bit , why? In order to move your herds to max distance and bring near your tc you need 2 see 2 things:
1)Quantity of the animal ie is it large in no or not.
2)The amount of food it contains.
If these conditions satisfy then your herd will move faster and reach the max distance easily , otherwise they do not.
Ok now there are 2 methods to find when the back herd is gonna happen and the max distance a animal can travel ,one as the author of this post mentioned which is nice, 2nd by me i think many good players know this ,for players who don't know this ,this will be helpful , which one to follow? you can follow anything which suits you the best ,if you can remember the no of shots u fired with ur vill great! you can follow the concept i mentioned above else go with the author's concept.
I think i have give you ample of examples here for you guys to understand the concept , if you feel something is wrong or incorrect please tell me in the comment below , share your thoughts , and i by no means a pro , this is the knowledge i have & i wanted to share it here , hope it is clear and helpful , any doubts regarding this is always welcomed ,feel free to ask me.