damage done by wolves

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42 minutes ago, Whyherro123 said:

They should be all-but irrelevant to the game. Do you know how much space a wolf pack needs?

Basically, the whole of South Zagoria would be enough space to maybe support a single wolf pack.

http://westernwildlife.org/gray-wolf-outreach-project/biology-behavior-4/

And probably even less, with the level of human activity in South Zagoria. With the level of agriculture and animal husbandry in-game, any wolves would have been shot and killed by humans real quick. 

Same thing with bears, only even more so.

Wolves and bears were only put in to give the game a more "survival" feeling, while all the people actually trained/experienced in wilderness survival are shaking their heads and facepalming.

They are doing it because they can't make the environment enough of a threat, which is disappointing.

 

Yep, i think the developers vision of predators is more gamey than realistic.

I live on a large Island that could in it's early days and still to a good extent produces it's own supplies for it's population, agriculture, forestry, etc. Even after 200 years of civilisation it's still 80% forested and largely habitat to all types of prey and predatory animals. We have bears, they're small like 300lbs tops and they run from any sign of man provided you don't get between a mother and her cubs. We have cougars (mountain lions) and they unless sick or old do not even show themselves let alone get into a fight they don't feel they have a 90% or more chance of winning. We also have a wolf population, I have heard them off in the distance as long as I can remember at night but in 38 years I've never seen one. I've seen tracks a few miles from the house I've lived in most of the last 30 years, but never seen them, why? Because when the island was settled the shortsighted wolves saw sheep, cows, and chickens and were like "awwww,yeah! easy food" until they figured out the smell of man and metallic clicking sounds he made were followed by death bringing booms and bangs, Darwin and generational wisdom being passed down took it from there.

TL;DR

The wolves of Chenarus would have been "trained" for generations that man=death, the only threat they would be is if you were clearly to them already on deaths door or unconscious. Predators don't make opportunities they observe and take them when the odds are good.