Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures

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Why Starfield’s Planets Are Covered In Thousands Of Dead Creatures
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Describes the ai present in every sandbox or open world game ever

STALKER had a very neat AI ecosystem. Everything (including humans) is quite aggressive so they all keep each other in check without overpowering the other. Even the weather was aggressive.

There are random YouTubers who have designed more sophisticated ecologies with functional feedback loops.

The problem is though is that random chance will eventually result in some species going extinct, so either you have to spawn new ones in to replace them, and so have a check for loss of population, or just allow that to happen. The current implementation though is entry level first year student developer sophisticated.

Those random YouTubers make those ecologies with the explicit purpose of simulating an ecology in a totally closed environment, not as an additional side piece to a game.

Not even to mention how a functioning ecology can never properly exist where a player is involved. Players will just kill things without any rhyme or reason to.