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[Arkose]

Has anyone else noticed that perhaps nine-tenths of all animal legends are cougars, and most of the rest are wolves and alligators?

Any thoughts on how I could go about ensuring that the beasts that prowl my world's nightmares have a bit more varied? I'm thinking of maybe editing the entity files to make civs settle more diverse terrain in the hopes that the world-gen fight simulator will consider some stranger foes.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

I rarely look at legends. It's too unorganized and cluttered to enjoy reading.

[Vester]

Has anyone else noticed that perhaps nine-tenths of all animal legends are cougars, and most of the rest are wolves and alligators?

Any thoughts on how I could go about ensuring that the beasts that prowl my world's nightmares have a bit more varied? I'm thinking of maybe editing the entity files to make civs settle more diverse terrain in the hopes that the world-gen fight simulator will consider some stranger foes.

Cougars and wolves are common, which increases the chance that they'll murder people. Maybe you could change the biomes of creatures you want to legendify.

[HammerHand]

What's more, they're common predators that often share resources with more sentient species.  There are certainly lots of stories and folk tales about wolves in real life, even if those stories don't name said wolves.  Cougars sort of fill the same niche in their own biomes, so it similarly makes sense that legends about them would come up... especially when every now and then there's a particularly crafty, tough, lucky, or viciously territorial one roaming around.

But me?  I'd like to see a legendary elephant.

[Vester]

You can mod elephants to ambush, right? Because that would be terrifying.

[Warlord255]

You can mod elephants to ambush, right? Because that would be terrifying.

The biology update might include some changes to this paradigm, if but unintentionally... megabeasts, at the least, will become drastically stronger, so we'll get to see more of them.

[Vester]

There is, of course, one solution.

Mod horses to become ambush predators. Watch the world burn.

[Hectonkhyres]

But me?  I'd like to see a legendary elephant.

You invite destruction upon us all!
Also, in response to the post abcd_z made: Mmmmmmmm.

[Leafsnail]

Cougars are pretty rubbish, but there are a lot of them.  So they get a lot of kills.

[Duke 2.0]

 Could be the fact they are the size of a man and thirst for blood, often going past boundries other animals either don't want to cross or cannot cross.

[Toady One]

I just removed and edited a bunch of posts.  Despite the title of this thread, please do not use that as an excuse to derail it.  Okenido went into his or her anime-shota-pedo thing again despite previous admonishments and has been banned permanently.  Please refer to the forum guidelines.

[smjjames]

I wasn't making an excuse to derail it, I was just confused.

Anyways.... back on topic, the real one.

As far as legendary named animals, I've seen alot of the common tropical creatures get something like that. Mainly because I use higher temp worlds and so cougars have been somewhat replaced by the tropical ones such as alligators, leopards, jaguars, etc, and the occasional tigerman.

[Vester]

Whoops. I guess that was mostly my fault, since I was the first to bring it up.

Actually one of the possible reasons for this is that worldgen combat is supposed to be a bit random, which means that while a Cougar stands no chance in a stand-up fight in Adventurer mode, during worldgen they'll probably win a lot of fights.

[Rowanas]

THat should get fixed in the upcoming arc. Now elephants and dwarves will win, rather than suffering at the hands of pathetic but more statistically numerous foes.

[Neoskel]

I think it's kinda funny when a cougar or something gets named status by attacking an adventurer then running away and then spends the rest of history eating people's cats.