NPC wolves

[strangetomato]

Quick question… Are these the only two colours the wolf NPCs come in? These are the ones I can summon in Strangetown, but I seem to recall seeing a grey one with darker markings somewhere, like your typical wolf. Was that a cc wolf, perhaps?

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[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Nope, there are grey ones too, but the game just randomly picks a coat when generating a new one, so you can end up without all three coats represented in your wolf population.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Okay, good, so I wasn't just imagining the other kind. There are three types in all then, I take it. I'll have to check some of my other hoods to see if I can find the grey type.

That's sort of odd, isn't it. You'd think they'd have a consistent look, and maybe different hoods would have different coloured wolf packs. That'd make more sense, though an odd wolf or two doesn't hurt.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Pic of a grey wolf with my Daisy Greenman, here: http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z438/Tarliachan/Riverblossom/Greenman_176.jpg :)

I'm not sure whether the Pets stealth 'hood comes with pre-made wolves or not. There's none in my cleaned one, but I don't remember if I might've removed any or not. :P Either way, they are just randomly generated when the game needs them, like other NPCs. Unlike the stray dogs and cats, wolves are spawned in the Service NPCs family.

Don't Canadian/American wolves come in black and white too? In Europe they are all grey/brownish, I think.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. :) Thanks for sharing that.

I'm not sure if the wolves are set for the premade hoods, or even if they're all the same or not. It seems like they generate random names, at least. I almost always have one named Baron and I know Strangetown has a Noodle. :P Great wolf name.

I don't have much wolf knowledge to share. We don't have any here, so I don't know much about them (and probably everything I do know comes from The Jungle Book, haha). We used to have our very own Newfoundland wolf species, but they are extinct. Now I want to look that up about the coats. Do they change with the seasons, I wonder?

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Nah, there wouldn't be any pre-defined wolves for any of the pre-made 'hoods. They'd have to come with the Pets stealth 'hood (along with Cyd Roseland and the adoptables and strays), and in that case they would be the same in every neighbourhood, names and everything.

Unless you have a replacement file for townie and pet names, there really aren't that many pet names to choose from, so Baron and Noodle are both very common. (There's this elder stray cat named Noodle that I'm quite fond of. :))

Hmm, I think I'm gonna go look up information about Canadian wolves myself, I'm curious now. :) We unfortunately only have like 20 wolves in Norway, and the farmer's party is very insistent on keeping the population to an absolute minimum, preferably they want them extinct (and they will be, soon, due to a really shallow gene pool). :/