Counter Herbi/Carni Mixpacking

200 votes

Herbivores and carnivores often group up with each other using comms due to their inability to use the group system. While this is clearly not intended, it’s an incredibly prevalent behavior in the game. Mega groups of herbi and carni players ruthlessly harassing people contributes to an unengaging experience and really takes you out of the immersion. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when your herbi gets merked by a gang of other herbis so that they can feed their carni friend, does it?

A potential way to passively counter this is by implementing some sort of stress system which would progressively punish either herbis or carnis (or both) the longer they remain within proximity of any player of the opposite diet. The punishment could debuff the player, so that it wouldn’t necessarily impact their HP, but it would heavily discourage them from hanging around players of the opposite diet for extended periods of time.

Under consideration Suggested by: ruckzuck (10 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 15 Apr • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

09 Aug, '22
Jochewi
Some of this would be appreciated, but I would prefer reward to punishment, or a combination of both.. In any case it would be good if each species had certain coexistence needs, to make the experience more realistic. So you could see groups of dinosaurs as you would have found them 66 million years ago, instead of all the mixed groups we have today.
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12 Aug, '22
Otoha0309
I second this. For a game that really delves deep into the realm of realism and immersion, this problem is the #1 problem for those looking for something like that experience on official servers. It feels unnatural and toxic, and more steps should be taken to prevent and discourage it. Unless the developers are ACTUALLY trying to build a dinosaur game that is only about bringing the most powerful dino group you can to the center of the map, and proceeding to be an epic douchebag about it. Because that's the game we have at the moment
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15 Aug, '22
Samantha
NO. I've never ever done this but I have carni friends and I want to group with them to quest punishing friends because if a few bad people doesn't make sense
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15 Oct, '22
Utah
It doesn’t matter if a friend is on team carnivore and another friend plays herbivore there should be a punishment for mix packing to balance the game. If a friend wants to play with another friend then they can change their dinosaur to either carnivore or herbivore with them. Mix packing is over powering the game and it’s becoming toxic so this needs to come to a stop. I’ve tried questing and it’s almost impossible growing my dinosaur when a trike is guarding the quest while their carnivore friends grow it’s unrealistic and unfair play.
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