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nimbus25

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How to likely is it to get FUN creatures?
« on: June 29, 2014, 03:39:36 pm »

I got bored and decided to check out my world's legends. I noticed that there is at least one living female and one living male roc in the world. How likely would it be for both of them to show up?
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TheSaberTooth

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Re: How to likely is it to get FUN creatures?
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2014, 04:01:26 pm »

It depends on a number of factors, such as:

Are there any other semi/megabeasts that could attack?
Is your fort wealthy enough?
Are the creatures in question close by or on an entirely different continent?

Besides that, getting two genders of the same species is difficult, as you need to have both of them attack your fort. If you wish to breed them, you obviously have to get both of them alive, which is a hassle.
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nimbus25

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Re: How to likely is it to get FUN creatures?
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2014, 04:36:24 pm »

It depends on a number of factors, such as:

Are there any other semi/megabeasts that could attack?
Is your fort wealthy enough?
Are the creatures in question close by or on an entirely different continent?

Besides that, getting two genders of the same species is difficult, as you need to have both of them attack your fort. If you wish to breed them, you obviously have to get both of them alive, which is a hassle.

For capturing them, I have no problem spamming cage traps EVERYWHERE on the map and just waiting.
And yes, there are other semi/megabeasts that could attack, and the wealth question is really just how patient I am in playing the game.
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neblime

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Re: How to likely is it to get FUN creatures?
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2014, 08:33:15 am »

i approve of spamming cage traps  :D all those random animals you catch can be useful too
anyway, 1 of each gender doesn't seem like very good odds to me, surely you can get better than that with a few different tries?
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