animal DPS balance

[Palaxin]

This is the second part of #3778.

Having a closer look at gaia animals' attack, there are many strange things to observe. E.g. a wolf nearly has triple the DPS² of a lioness. Lions are also pwned by boars, the crocodile gets smashed by a wolf and even the big rhino doesn't do more damage than wolves.

	attack
animal	hack	pierce	crush	RT1	DPS2
lioness	15			2	7.5
lion	20			2	10
boar	12			1	12
crocodile	30			2	15
wolf	10	10		1	20
snow wolf	10	10		1	20
bear	20		20	2	20
rhinoceros	20		20	2	20
tiger	30	20		2	25
walrus	15	10		1	25
North African elephant	20	20		1	40
Asian elephant	22	10	18	1	50
African bush elephant	25	10	20	1	55

Below is a first proposal how to adjust the values. If there are no complaints, I will create a patch based on that. I rounded all values to multiples of 5 and assumed that hack attack corresponds to paws and pierce attack to teeth or horns. Crush attack is added for very large animals. I assume the repeat time is roughly adjusted to the animation but I will still check for possible changes there. Note that the average DPS of all animals nearly remains the same (from 24.6 to 24.2).

	attack
animal	hack	pierce	crush	RT1	DPS2
boar	10			1	10
wolf	5	5		1	10
snow wolf	5	5		1	10
bear	20	10		2	15
lioness	20	10		2	15
lion	20	10		2	15
tiger	25	15		2	20
crocodile	20	20		2	20
walrus	10	10		1	20
rhinoceros	30	20	10	2	30
North African elephant	20	10	10	1	40
Asian elephant	25	10	15	1	50
African bush elephant	30	10	20	1	60

¹ repeat time ² damage per second = (hack attack + pierce attack + crush attack) / repeat time

[sanderd17]

What we mainly lack is some cleverness in the animal AI. About every animal would flee for an army of men, and never attack it. But many would attack a single person.

The threshold is different for every animal species though, and some animals also prefer to attack in group.

Some animals also chase (like lions), while others just want to get rid of you (like a rhino won't keep chasing you), or are too lazy to chase (a crocodile only attacks once).

When that gets implemented, animals can be a bit more realistic, and be very annoying for scouting, but not interfere a lot when the game reaches the main combat phase. And making the first part of the game more interesting is still wanted I guess.

[Palaxin]

I agree, but what if we just corrected the values as a first step? I mean even very similar animals like lion and tiger have DPS values separated by factor 3, this is ridiculous. I could try to improve the animal AI in the future but I think it's no easy task for me.

Yes the early game could and should be made MUCH more interesting...

[Palaxin]

I ​discussed with sanderd17 to continue balance after ​animal AI has improved.

[Imarok]

Move tickets to Simulation as UI & Simulation got some sub components.

[wraitii]

This got fixed (with somewhat different values) in ​Phab:rP24689