10.1
The Penguin Waypoint Theory
This theory was first conceived way back in the Penguin 101 days, at the very beginning of the Penguin Hide N' Seek. Powotae was a skeptic of it at the time, but even he admitted in the last thread that there may be something to it.
The basic question is 'Why do penguins end up where they do?'. The theory was that penguins are attracted to specific points on the map. These points were called 'waypoints', and were scattered around the map. It was postulated that impling spawn points acted as the waypoints, but there is no research to back that up.
Anyways, the theory went that penguins would travel to the waypoint and then roam around for a while. After a while, the penguin would be attracted to a new waypoint, and then take a very long movement in the direction of the new waypoint. After it reaches that new area, the penguin would roam around again. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
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It also seems that there is a most attractive waypoint somewhere in the northern portion of the map. It used to be that I could find off world penguins in the Oo'glog boulder trap very frequently. Now, unless it is a Feldip penguin, this happens very rarely.
It is postulated that this most attractive waypoint causes penguins to migrate to the northern most part of their roam range more frequently, unless it gets stuck in a special trap along the way. Unlike the waypoint theory, it is very easy to test where penguins end up!
It involves allowing the penguins maximum time to find a special trap in their roaming area. At the end of the week (Sunday night is the best to avoid system updates), take a tally of where each penguin wound up.
In fact, I will be doing this every Sunday night for a while. I have chosen
This theory was first conceived way back in the Penguin 101 days, at the very beginning of the Penguin Hide N' Seek. Powotae was a skeptic of it at the time, but even he admitted in the last thread that there may be something to it.
The basic question is 'Why do penguins end up where they do?'. The theory was that penguins are attracted to specific points on the map. These points were called 'waypoints', and were scattered around the map. It was postulated that impling spawn points acted as the waypoints, but there is no research to back that up.
Anyways, the theory went that penguins would travel to the waypoint and then roam around for a while. After a while, the penguin would be attracted to a new waypoint, and then take a very long movement in the direction of the new waypoint. After it reaches that new area, the penguin would roam around again. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
.•´¯`•._.•´¯`•.
It also seems that there is a most attractive waypoint somewhere in the northern portion of the map. It used to be that I could find off world penguins in the Oo'glog boulder trap very frequently. Now, unless it is a Feldip penguin, this happens very rarely.
It is postulated that this most attractive waypoint causes penguins to migrate to the northern most part of their roam range more frequently, unless it gets stuck in a special trap along the way. Unlike the waypoint theory, it is very easy to test where penguins end up!
It involves allowing the penguins maximum time to find a special trap in their roaming area. At the end of the week (Sunday night is the best to avoid system updates), take a tally of where each penguin wound up.
In fact, I will be doing this every Sunday night for a while. I have chosen
WORLD 62
to conduct this test. I will ask that you do not influence or trap a main area penguin on this world!
~ Bill
18-Feb-2014 03:24:44 - Last edited on 07-Dec-2015 01:16:11 by Shady Guy