Cottage Living: Wild Fox Protection

"sunman502;c-17915160" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-17913092" wrote:

"sunman502;d-990844" wrote:
Now it shows a llama running the wild fox off in the trailer for Cottage Living. Now if the llamas from Cottage Living can chase the wild foxes away. Will the large dog that are pets from Cats & Dogs do the same? Will they be able to chase the wild foxes away?

This is a good question and one I hope gurus will answer. If this pack will be interactive with other packs like it should be.

It is a good question. In the trailer, you see a llama chasing off a wild fox. So I thought that if a llama can do that. Then what about the herding dogs? People have been using herding dogs to guard the live stock against wild predators for centuries. So I thought it can be the same for in the game as well. It only makes sense because we have herding dogs in the game. Might as well put them to work.

Well, perhaps llamas will work as guarding dogs? Another reason to keep a llama if you keep chickens?

I seriously hope dogs and cats will react to wild animals, especially those not being befriended. Technically it should be possible to have the appearance of a wild animal trig a reaction from a dog, even if dogs are not reprogrammed to chase foxes. I'd be happy as long as a dog barks at the fox and the fox then leaves, but in RL the dog would most likely chase the fox off the lot.

Perhaps in TS4 wildlife is not tamed by chasing, but by befriending. So if the fox becomes a problem, you can solve it by befriending it? I'm not a big fan of this game turning into a "nice enough for toddlers to play", but anyway I like that the fox represents a danger, at some stage.