The X noticed you and ran away! (Island Sanctuary)

[Skivvy]

I'm pretty sure that it's just RNG with this and the whole ninja stealth thing is just a coincidence. Some people are just that lucky sometimes. Just did this with the gator, as an fyi. 2 misses and then it ran away. So no, not convinced that this is a "thing".

My other theory is that the game somehow knew I was talking smack about my friend the Goobbue and that I also had just crafted a tooon of traps for it. Its smug little AI was like "hahhha, watch this!", and just like that all my extra traps are now useless. Ya know, like when you finally wash your car, it rains.

But yeahhh, I'm really hoping that SE will flesh out IS more down the road. I still feel like it has a lot of potential, it's just missing the finer details that make farming simulators fun and something you dabble with long-term.

[Deole]

Maybe it’s just me over thinking. But I find if I get at a decent range and don’t move like 10 seconds, then my success is better. Like they see me walk up and then forget I’m there lol. Could be in my head but try it and tell me what you think.

[Bunnycake]

Pretty much my reaction when that happens

[Vahlnir]

Pretty much my reaction when that happens

110% relatable.

[Boblawblah]

Maybe it’s just me over thinking. But I find if I get at a decent range and don’t move like 10 seconds, then my success is better. Like they see me walk up and then forget I’m there lol. Could be in my head but try it and tell me what you think.

it's in your head, I've just mounted up and sprinted straight up to them while they're watching me and still caught them. It's all rng. do you really think they designed a special system for animal aggro just for this Island?

[TaleraRistain]

I have tested it.
No food for 3 days.
They are very angry but still drop loot.
No Animal ran away. Not even the rare ones.

I'm sitting here giggling to myself. "I starved my poor animals for Science"

Reminds of me of ye olden days when we all neglected our Tamagotchis to see what would happen. Or the awful things I've done to my Sims.

[Jojoya]

it's in your head, I've just mounted up and sprinted straight up to them while they're watching me and still caught them. It's all rng. do you really think they designed a special system for animal aggro just for this Island?

They don't have to design a special system when there's a system already used in the game. It's strange how many players are unaware of it.

Want to walk from Little Ala Mhigo to Forgotten Springs on a level 15 character through Amalj'aa territory without being attacked and without using the Red Labyrinth bypass? You can do it if you understand how those mobs aggro (line of sight) and take patient advantage of that information (wait for the nearby mob(s) to move so you'll know you have several seconds to go behind them safely).

Moving safely through Eureka until you get to be a high enough level to not worry about them is all about knowing how to avoid aggro for the individual creature types.

Here's an experience I had with Lost Lambs a few days ago on one of my alts. Used my usual walk up behind, stay out of hit box, wait a few seconds then toss the net. I didn't just miss every time, I was detected every time. So I decided to change it up and stayed behind, still waited but this time just inside the hit box. Caught the Lamb every time. Stepped back of the hitbox again and back to being detected every time. Stand on flank instead of behind? Detected. I kept doing this over 30 something attempts even though I had already captured the number of Lambs I wanted for the Pasture. I had plenty of nets to spare since I had made extras expecting frequently failures that didn't end up happening on my earlier captures .

That would be a very wild coincidence if it was truly RNG. With actual RNG, some of the out of hit box attempts should have succeeded and some of the in hit box attempts failed.

Most of the other creatures work the opposite - you want to be outside of the hitbox. Rares still have their RNG for the capture to miss but not be detected.

Call me foolish if you want but it's worked very well for me across 4 characters so I haven't needed to do a lot of gathering to make nets/restraints/soporifics while I've been reading other players talk about their constant failures.

[Deveryn]

They don't have to design a special system when there's a system already used in the game. It's strange how many players are unaware of it.

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Call me foolish if you want but it's worked very well for me across 4 characters so I haven't needed to do a lot of gathering to make nets/restraints/soporifics while I've been reading other players talk about their constant failures.

I agree. I haven't done nearly as much capturing, but I've also had very little failure on taking certain approaches to them, like being in melee range for the small creatures and letting everything "reset" after a miss.

[Vahlnir]

Looks like they truly did fix the spawns of the rares. I tested it with the gator spawn. Before if you went into before a specific time, it would mean your rare would not spawn when its window opened. Went in a little after 12am ET (which was when you were supposed to have exited your island before the spawn time/weather aligned) and left and zoned back in at 6am when the gator was set to spawn. Sure enough, there it was. Thank the Twelve. And SE, I guess. But yeah, just wanted to give a first-hand confirmation on that.

[Jojoya]

Looks like they truly did fix the spawns of the rares. I tested it with the gator spawn. Before if you went into before a specific time, it would mean your rare would not spawn when its window opened. Went in a little after 12am ET (which was when you were supposed to have exited your island before the spawn time/weather aligned) and left and zoned back in at 6am when the gator was set to spawn. Sure enough, there it was. Thank the Twelve. And SE, I guess. But yeah, just wanted to give a first-hand confirmation on that.

Yes, it's fixed. I intentionally stayed in zone prior to when the Alligator was due to spawn just to tempt fate but it spawned as it should have. I missed with my first attempt and was detected on second attempt with this character. It was straddling the rocks so if I'm right about position affecting chance to capture, I might have misjudged the hitbox or simply had the bad RNG that attempt. But I switched to one of my other characters right away and then caught it first attempt with that character - behind and out of hitbox. That time it was standing in the middle of the creek, no rocks under it.

As long as I'm continuing to get fairly consistently results, I don't mind taking that extra caution. I'd rather spend an extra minute or two on a capture than have to spend a half hour gathering more materials for nets/restraints/soporifics thanks to successive misses and failures.

Besides, it's more fun for me my way. It feels more like trying to capture a wild creature instead of like grabbing a runaway pet off the street.