Ok under normal circunstances I don't post in the english channel, will make an exeption; don't get used to it
Ok, a lot has been talked about the way to solve things, but I think there is not an exact knowledge of what are the animals problems in each island.
First, as said by the spanish players; the spanish-german island works fine, we don't have predators and are steady amount of animals. However, the problem with largely populated islands is that small animals tend to get extincted more quickly, and that's what's happening. Primarly pigons have virtually dissapeard, but rabbits are starting to decrease their numbers. I think is fair in a future spanish island could suffer a great extinction of animals, since it would help to develop the agriculture (so far there is so much meat than is not really necesary to plant, and comunities who don't have nutritional foods, as forest, don't have to import food). I think a bit of extintion is fair; but I would like to be a steady and controlled extintion, noy just that we get no small animals and newspawn can't make their bone knifes all that. Also, pigeons are the only source of feathers there, so now finding 500 grams is becoming a really challenging task.
About the Dutch-French island: as everybody knows the person who programmed animals there hates the French, so he made everything on his power to makes their lives impossible. Aganist all odds, some communities have managed to live, but thier numbers remain being scarce. Don't know, at this point I think it has become part of the way of living, but some control must be implanted. The bear population exceeds the other animal population in most towns, and the wild boar population is not small neither. I think the average is 70 bears per city and 50 wild boars, while the small animals, as the deers, rabbits and wolves, are reducing thier numbers. I think half of the population of bears and a quarter of wild boars could be erased without making the place much less dangerous, and will allow none agressive species to develop. Still, the island will be unfair for the frenchs (poor access to iron and small numbers) but will be a bit more fair, an could actually allow the french develop as a comunity (the Dutch are better since they live in an area with good access to iron and they are quite developed).
Then Irirki Yin island, the "secret" german island: as far as I know the place is overcrowded with elephants, but the germans are making a good profit with the ivory and they seem to be a love-hate relationship. Maybe some control on the elephants would be nice, but not too much since people will start to complain about the ivory shortage.
Portuguese island; the real problem: well, basically the bloody scarabs have eaten every other animal there; is kind of funny that the scarabs are extiguishing the buffalos. The average amout of scarabs in the portuguese lands are over 125, and is making impossible getting meat, bones or hide. Along with the the lack of big organized cities, iron and safety life there is becoming difficult. Is not much the problem of scarabs killing people, is just is very diffcult to build something there. Massive destruction of scarabs and repopulation of the native life is recommended (urgerently), since the human factor had nothing to do this time.
Odjusön island (one of the swedish islands): well, things here are simple: not a single animal here, not even a skinny pigeon. Since newspawns are starting to appear is unfair that they are unable to make themselves even a bone knife, so at least some animals should be implanted soon.
Finally, Västö island, another Swedish island. Here there are massive amount of animals, but it seems lemmings are starting to be the preponderant species. Some control over them is needed.
Well, thats all I have to say; I think one of the big problems is that small species tend to develop more that what is correct in unhabited lands and tend to get very reduced in pupulated places. The solution of just reducing the animal breeding rate can be good for the moment, but is unefficient at long term, since for example hawks are both in largely habited places and unhabited places. Reducing their breeding will control the oerpopulation but most likely will make them extiguish in populated places. I think the solution, as it has been said before, is individual limits for each species, and having a smaller limit for big predators and animals and a bigger for small species.
Well, that's my 5 cents, back to my cave
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