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Those cattail stalks are going to be your best friends

14 hours ago, Stone said:

never step foot in a man-made loading area.

So is mountaineers hut allowed? Anyways good luck!

1 hour ago, EricTheGreat12 said:

Already asked and answered in Milton Mailbag #1

Oh my bad, apparently I didn't read it carefully enough.

I hate to be the one that asks this but do you have any news on episode 3? Anyways keep up the good work!

29 minutes ago, Mroz4k said:

Fair warning - I am not going to be nice in what I wrote here. But you really should expect that, considering you came here to rant about a week old update that hasnt been yet properly tested by the community, and you made bogus claims, acting like you knew exactly what you were talking about even though you were writing complete nonsense.

 

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So, you make an angry comment about an update that wasn't out for a whole week. You rant about some things not working, yet there is nobody in here but you, doing that. You claim certain settings don't work but nobody else reported this, in fact, several other people claim to see the differences.

What does THAT even mean?

if two auroras happened in 4 days - that would mean there is a 50% chance of Aurora happening per 1 day, not 1 aurora happening twice in 1 day, that would be 200% chance. If it happened twice in a row, it would mean there is 100% chance of aurora happening every day - meaning each night would be an aurora night. 

BUT

All of that is bullshit. You cannot make a statement of aurora frequency based on observing 2 auroras happening - you will need to see and record 50 auroras AT BARE minimum. If you knew how statistics work - observing a phenomenon 100 times gives you roughly 70% chance to precisely guess its percentage chance. If you saw it 1000 times, the percentage would be about 91%. So, if you saw 1000 auroras, you could say with 91% certainty that you know how big the percentage is. For example, if it took 4000 days to see 1000 auroras, it means you are 91% sure that the Aurora frequency setting is 4000/1000 = 1/4 = 25%. By the way, observing 2 phenomenons gives you about 3% chance of guessing it correctly.

BUT

None of that matters anyway because of something called "gamblers fallacy" - which in a nutshell means that just because something has a 10% chance of happening, it means you are guaranteed to see it happen once in 10 tries. You cannot "count together" percentages. The chance of it happening with always be 10%, no matter how many tries you try. Which means you can keep trying till the end of days and if you are extremely unlucky, you will never see it happen.

Do not rely on statistics.

@Carbon is right, you clearly think that you know what the values mean, but it seems to me that you really don't have a clue. 

This is clearly impossible to do considering how the game works, and if you really were such an expert on TLD like you appear to be, you would know that. The world is not being constantly refreshed. It was once generated and stays permanently unchanged since then. Only very rarely, when a new update comes out, the world can be slightly reloaded, and things like rose hips will grow up again. The world once generated cannot be altered. Besides, being able to alter your difficulty would make permadeath irrelevant.

If you have SUCH a huge problem with the way custom works, don't play it. But if you are going to set your settings to lowest levels which is too much for you to handle, don't come here and accuse devs of having bugs in it just because you couldn't handle it. 

Or, you could be smart about learning the custom game modes, and start by setting up games that are similar to the preset games, at first, and gradually making it more difficult.

People have posted lists that document the difficulties of the preset modes already. Should be easy to figure out how things changed compared to modes we are all familiar with.

 

Usually i'm not really into these kinda posts, but now i couldn't agree more. 

I really hope moose live in Milton. That would make exploring Milton so much better!

2 minutes ago, Thrasador said:

now they are appearing for me gradually as I follow them...

Same here

42 minutes ago, Thrasador said:

Has anyone noticed blood spots appearing as you follow them, or is there something wrong with my graphics?

What I mean is prior to Wintermute, the blood trail for animals were static, like if they left one the entire trail was visible from the get go. Now....for me at least, the blood trail is appearing a little bit at a time...as I follow it. 

Basically I'm asking if that's how it is now for everyone, or am I experiencing some kind of bug....?

Yeah they drop those little red dots. They are kinda hard to track but not impossible

2 hours ago, kurja said:

A bleeding animal (wounded by arrow or knife) eventually bleeds out and dies; but is this guaranteed to happen so that the carcass can be found?

I shot a deer with an arrow, it did not die on the spot but ran away bleeding. As it galloped away I lost sight of it. That's when the weather changed for the worse and the other deer in the area disappeared as well as I was looking for the wounded one. Luckily my arrow broke and it had fallen where it hit the deer.
The next day I returned to the area to look for it, instead found a wolf and put an arrow on him as he was approaching me - and the bugger bolted off (with my precious arrow) behind a hill and I couldn't maintain line of sight. It got foggy and I did not find a wolf there, living or dead.

So can I actually find the carcasses? Or is it possible that they went to whatever nowhere-land to die where they seem to reside when the weather is poor?

They ran like crazy until they die. If you see blood, follow it. It leads to the dead animal. Also listen for crows. They ususally hang around a dead animal

47 minutes ago, jrivett said:

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I found a workaround. I was able to climb down without the rope, just being very careful, moving slowly and trying to slide along surfaces trending generally downward. At the bottom, Mackenzie says something about the rope being old, so presumably if I still had the rope, it would have broken on the way down.

Woah, you can cheese the whole Milton part... and yes, the rope will broke on the way down

Try jumping down. Yolo.