0004505: Smaller than expected underground vermin populations

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(0023215) Quietust (reporter) 2012-07-12 06:30	I did some tests, examining populations in memory both for subregions and feature layers during a paused worldgen, and while surface populations are mostly within the expected ranges (POPULATION_NUMBER range multiplied by the number of region tiles), feature populations were indeed vastly lower - a cavern covering 29 region tiles contained only 390 naked mole dogs and 351 elk birds compared to the 435-870 and 725-1450 I would have expected. As worldgen goes on, those numbers only seem to get smaller.

(0027461) Khym Chanur (reporter) 2014-07-24 17:15 edited on: 2014-07-24 17:41	Still present in 0.40.04. As an example, purring maggots have the same POPULATION_NUMBER stats as large roaches. In a pocket world there were 25 times as many roaches as maggots, and in a medium world 5.3 times as many. EDIT: Also, the pocket world was 250 old, but the medium world was only 5 years old, so as noted in the previous comment, the disparity might grow the further worldgen goes on.

(0027737) Khym Chanur (reporter) 2014-07-27 17:56	Something in 0.40.05 has made the problem go the opposite way, so that there seems to be too many underground vermin. A 250 year old pocket world had 5 times as many purring maggots as large roaches, while a 5 year old medium world had 14 times as many. Anyway, THIS bug has definitely been fixed.

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