A few creature questions (yes it's another one of those threads)

[2mg]

Sup,

so I want this and that when creature does that and this... I'm pretty sure experts here will know  :yourock:


1.) How to get him to eat food in his pen - other than slapping for trying to eat bad food until he has no other choice?
      Would manually forcing him to eat, and then immediately praising him work?
      Will it work for fish or fields since everything converts to grain when I take it in my hand?


2.) Is eating from ripe fields bad? Is fish eating still bad in 1.1 patch?
      If learned to eat from ripe fields, would the game differentiate from growing fields?


4.) How do I know if praising him for eating when he has less than 50% Energy will result in "He will eat more of that food"
      or "He will eat more when low on Energy"?
      And if praised for eating when low on Energy, does that include eating more of that specific food?


5.) I've seen 3 benevolent behaviors that I have hard time repeating with a new creature:
      "He will help more people in need"
      "He will be more benevolent when he sees me being benevolent"
      "He will simply be more generous on his own"
    Usually it simply ends up in "He will be more good towards those people" and I can't replicate it...

 

[2mg]

Well, manually feeding him and then praising does the trick for pen food... Dunno about the fields...

 

[Ades]

Hi.

1) Well you answered yourself, but it won't work on fish fields I think.

2) I never noticed it was bad, it's such a minor thing that it's quite irrelevant in my opinion. As far as if the game would differentiate the type of fields, I don't know, my creature always barfs when eating from any kind of field (except in Creature Isle).

3) It will always be "eat more of that food" except when you tell him to eat fish, that's the only situation that will always be "eat more when low on energy". Yes it includes eating more fish.

4) I've only ever encountered the latter of the three you mentioned, and I triggered it only once, when I rewarded my creature 10% for using the food miracle out of the blue. I have no idea of the real way to trigger it though.

Hope this helps a little

 

[2mg]

Hi.

1) Well you answered yourself, but it won't work on fish fields I think.

2) I never noticed it was bad, it's such a minor thing that it's quite irrelevant in my opinion. As far as if the game would differentiate the type of fields, I don't know, my creature always barfs when eating from any kind of field (except in Creature Isle).

3) It will always be "eat more of that food" except when you tell him to eat fish, that's the only situation that will always be "eat more when low on energy". Yes it includes eating more fish.

4) I've only ever encountered the latter of the three you mentioned, and I triggered it only once, when I rewarded my creature 10% for using the food miracle out of the blue. I have no idea of the real way to trigger it though.

Hope this helps a little

Why does the game torment me so with misleading information for an award winning AI?!

So how am I supposed to know that he will eat out of necessity and not greed unless I catch? How do I generally get greediness out of his system?

PS: Fatness gets stored if he eats above 50% Energy, right? So how do I juggle some healthy fat levels?

 

[Ades]

Creatures eat by greed if they eat anything at little to no hunger percentage. Greediness only makes your creature fatter and thus, prevents him from growing correctly. The correct fatness level for your creature to grow better is between 40% and 60%. The only way to get rid of greediness is by teaching him to eat whatever you want it to eat at a certain percentage. A good way to do this is by waiting until the hunger reaches the percentage you want, then tell it to eat fish (click on a fish farm with the learning leash, it works better when you let go off the leash right after you click, before he eats) and reward it 10%. Then, simply watch him closely. If he eats when he is below the hunger percentage you rewarded him for (about 10 or 15% lower, not precisely otherwise you'll confuse him), punish him 10%, then watch him. If you see him eating at the percentage you rewarded him for again, don't do anything, it means he understood. If he doesn't eat after 5% - 10% more than you rewarded him for the first time, tell it to eat and reward again 10%. You might have to re-punish and re-reward some more times, but after a while he'll get the hint, it depends on the creature you have and the habits he already has.

P.S.: He gets fatter when low on hunger actually, and he loses fat when he doesn't eat after the 50% threshold. That's how you juggle with his fat level