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[Lumify]

In the CREATURE_ files, some of the population lines look like this:

[POPULATION_NUMBER:3000:3000]30000:30000]-UBIQUITOUS-250:500]

What do the numbers after the first end bracket (]) mean? And the ones after the second? All I could find on the subject is that the POPULATION_NUMBER is the number of creatures you have to kill before the species is extinct, but I can't tell which number that is. I assume that's the first range; while the second and third ranges are something else. Could someone enlighten me?

[scamtank]

That's how Masterwork handles the different options. They're all there in the file at once, but the brackets and such are kludged around in such a way that only the wanted numbers and tags are picked up by the parser at any given time.

Normal raws wouldn't look anything like this.

[Lumify]

Ah ok I should have mentioned I was using Masterwork. I'm not oldschool enough to appreciate the ASCII art

So what does each number mean then? I'm trying to make it so creatures don't go extinct after over-hunting; which numbers should I raise to do this?

[Meph]

Its when I did mass replacements.. for example [FREQUENCY:100]25] is something you see often. in that case I raised everything to 100, the game ignores the 25] and I can easily look up the original value.

The high pop numbers are just to keep the animals from dying out.

[Lumify]

Ah ok, that's useful to know the original values, especially for mass replacing myself. What does it mean when there are three ranges, like the [POPULATION_NUMBER:3000:3000]30000:30000]-UBIQUITOUS-250:500] example? Was that just changed twice, with the third value being the original value, and the second being your first change?