Formation following

[vanyelxp5]

Formation following

having the ability to set up formations, or even just offset the follow point a few feet to either side would be immensely helpful to solo players and smaller tribes.

Just imagine it, a pack of Dire wolves or Allos charging in a classic Wedge, or dual column formation as they rush in to take down bigger prey.

A proper baggage train of brontos that doesn't get tangled up with eachother every 2.6 seconds because each one is offset to one side or the other from the one in front of them.

A lone survivor flanked by a pack of Hyaenodon that aren't tripping him or themselves up...

All of these would be good things, A massive quality of life improvement, especially if they would automatically run around to return to their follow point after killing something and harvesting its delicious meat.

[Dinobros2000]

You can change following distance but this would be extremely complex, having to have a number you can set(forward back offset, left right offset) this would also add the complication of having not just to caculate where they are, and where you are the system would have to be totally changed. This new way it would have to decide which way you are currently turned, moving instead of just he’s there go there every tick... Along with this, if you are on a pteranodon with a pteranodon formation for example, insted of each one needing to be within a massive radius of you, they need to be in a fairly precise spot, causing them to fall behind as you are all the same speed, so when he can’t catch up and he’s behind from the circling he’ll follow you again farther away and harder to account for, and don’t even talk about different speeds and sizes of dinos, it ends up just a train wreck of messed up dinos, and one speed difference of that one has too much meat can totally mess up all of them. While it’s a great idea and so many people think so we would need a revolutionary way to do it

[vanyelxp5]

That's a fair point, but, I think it could be done more simply. If the follow point for the dino were offset, then basically, that's where it would calculate your position for following purposes. You'd set it back enough, or to the side enough that staying up your backside wouldn't be the default position.

The other things, like them having to circle around are a non-issue. Because you would wait for them to be in position before running off again.

Different speeds would be a problem, but not as much of one as it is now. Right now, even same speed dinos end up getting tangled up. Especially brontos and other long bodied models. because they follow point is in the center. So even if you set them to Very Long distance, it puts their ideal range somewhere around the middle of the tail. So a functional baggage train where each follows the one in front of it is basically impossible to organize without other players.