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My norns are acting strange!!!!   
Ghost_Norn

Ghost_Norn
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  8/29/2013

Hi, I hope someone can help me. Yesterday I was playing C3 and DS, I was on the Biodome, had prepared a room for my two norns with the garden box, and apparently everything was alright, when all of a sudden my male norn just said "eat norn" out of thin air. My only reaction was to say "no" to him, but it really scared me. Is it possible that they can be cannibals? He happened to be one norn I've adopted, but he seemed pretty normal while he was young, but then his activities reduced a lot (not sure if that happens because he has some Hardman genome, since his head is from a Hardman, and I don't keep Grendels around them) but he still does them. I am concerned he has some sort of mutation :/.

Also the female acts weird, while the male still does some of his activities, she does even less, to the point she approaches food and just stands there, and then she says she's sleepy, but doesn't do anything, and unless she says she is really tired, she won't sleep. About the food thing, at first I though it was because of garden box, but then I took her to the Norn Terrarium, and still she couldn't eat it. Oh, and this happens more frequently to carrots, although it also happens with other food. He is a mix of Hardman, Zebra and Siamese, 7th generation, and she a full Bengal, 1st generation.


Previously known as Norn_XXL
 
RisenAngel
Sanely Insane

RisenAngel

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  8/29/2013  1

The default DS creatures are really prone to becoming senile a lifestage or two too early (though oddly, this seems to be solely a DS problem - I've never seen it happen in C3 standalone).

The reason for this has something to do with the combination lobe, as Vampess explains:

Vampess wrote:
The combination lobe, and more specifically the drive tracts leading to it, store the learned knowledge of how to reduce drives. When creatures learned something, the previous value was overwritten, which caused the creatures to seem very forgetful. Because the learning is slightly random, some creatures would even refuse to perform a certain action, as it was perceived as a bad action.



I don't think there's much you can do to help your current creatures, but in the future you could give the Creatures Full of Edits a try. While this could still happen with them, it's much less frequent. Assuming you're not already using the CFE, which in that case you've probably just run afoul of some bad luck.

To answer the cannibalism question: no, creatures cannot eat each other by default. Sometimes they just randomly spit out what's on their minds even if that's not really what they intended on doing.


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Ghost_Norn

Ghost_Norn


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  8/29/2013

Sorry, my mistake, I meant to say DS Docked. Thank you, that makes me breath more easely, although I'm still worried about them. No, I'm not using CFEs, although now I'm considering install them. I will try my best to take care of them, but this is a little strange, because I've played DS Docked before and this didn't happen. But thank you so much for your help Grendel_Man!

Previously known as Norn_XXL
 
lisha777

lisha777



  8/29/2013  1

Haha, don't worry about the "Eat Norn" thing. ;)
Like Grendle_Man said, norns can say many strange things! xD


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