Cantr II Discussion Forum

Greetings! I'm the new Resource Department Shepherd, charged with keeping watch over the animals in Cantr. I'm starting this thread so I can get feedback from all the language groups about the animal situations on their islands. Your feedback is appreciated, even if (especially if) everything is perfect (if it's not broke, don't fix it).

We are almost totally out of animals in Ĉiela Savo, and neither of the two tiny animal groups that remain (5 vultures and 2 coyotes) drop hide.

Alright, thanks for keeping me informed. I'll see what I can do.

I remember that there were titan beetles when my character spawned there. Do they still exist (I could not find a wiki-article)?

Are "titan beetles" different from "scarabs"? Cantr's scarabs are basically big beetles I think, but I haven't seen any of them with any of my Esperanto characters, so I don't know how "scarab" has been translated into Eo (I'm assuming "skarabo" or perhaps "skarabego", but I don't know for sure), and so I don't know if titan beetle is something altogether different. Whatever kind of beetle once existed in Ĉiela Savo is gone now though, with only a few second-hand chitin shields passed down from generation to generation to remind us of this now-extinct noble creature.

Also, some positive feedback: the animal mix on the main Esperanto island (Irdrosto, Jerifo, Malzovaro, etc) seems to have a pretty good balance of types and healthy population levels from what I've seen.

a few days ago one of my Esperanto characters hunted a "titana skarabo". But this is a traveller and I think he is far away from any Esperanto-locations

from the wiki entry about shell

Gathered by killing scarabs and titan beetles.

They are two different kinds of beetles. Unfortunately, I can't look at this until some login issues get fixed, but I'll let you know when I do.

I don't know exactly where your town is, but it appears that the majority of the character populations on the island are in areas that are geographically separated by deserts or mountains from the main animal populations. The animal populations themselves are healthy, it's just that they are hunted out in areas with characters with no chance of being replenished from the outside. I'm going to let this be. If you need animal products, you'll actually have to go on hunting trips.

Yeah that describes where we are at. Two grassland locs on the coast with only one overland exit between the two of them, directly into the mountains. One of the locs is among the top ten Spanish spawn-points and the other is a major (relatively speaking) Esperanto spawn-point. The ecological impact of overcrowding, I guess.