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Questions on [POPULATION_NUMBER]
« on: November 06, 2010, 10:01:04 pm »
The POPULATION_NUMBER tag seems to control the number of wild creatures of each type will occur in an area.  Is this number generated per biome, or per region tile?  If it's per biome then you should be able to kill more creatures before rendering them extinct by picking an embark site that spans multiple biomes, but if it's per region tile it's always going to be the same since as far as I can tell an embark site can't span multiple region tiles.

Also, it seems to me that once these initially created creatures are killed off no more are ever generated, and they don't migrate from other parts of the world.  Does anyone know if this is correct?
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