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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6438278" data-attributes="member: 57383">One chance in thirty may not seem like very much, but for a predator hunting prey it's too risky in the long run.If a wolf had that chance of being killed every time it attacked a sheep, then if it attacked ten sheep in ten different hunts it'd have a 28% chance of being killed. That might be too high a risk for the wolves to sustain a population since a wolf needs roughly thirty times its body weight of meat over its lifespan (so if that means it has to kill thirty sheep it has a 63% of being killed hunting them, plus it'll have all the other risks of living in the wild - disease, fights with rival predators, et cetera).However, most of the meat a wolf has to eat is because it's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeothermy" target="_blank">homothermic</a> and is burning calories to keep its body temperature up. Gammaroids are probably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poikilotherm" target="_blank">Poikilothermic</a> so only need to eat about a tenth that much, so it's plausible that enough survive Noble Gossamers hunts to reproduce and sustain their numbers.Of course, Gammaroids nutritional requirements might be wildly different from real-world creatures - their diet of &quot;omnivore&quot; could be literally true and they get most of their food from eating asteroids. That said, MC9 does say Noble Gossamers are their favourite prey, so I feel the have to be able to hunt them regularly without almost certainly dying, which means we should make the Gossamers substantially weaker than the Gammaroid rather than &quot;strengthening them up&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6438278, member: 57383"] One chance in thirty may not seem like very much, but for a predator hunting prey it's too risky in the long run. If a wolf had that chance of being killed every time it attacked a sheep, then if it attacked ten sheep in ten different hunts it'd have a 28% chance of being killed. That might be too high a risk for the wolves to sustain a population since a wolf needs roughly thirty times its body weight of meat over its lifespan (so if that means it has to kill thirty sheep it has a 63% of being killed hunting them, plus it'll have all the other risks of living in the wild - disease, fights with rival predators, et cetera). However, most of the meat a wolf has to eat is because it's [B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeothermy"][B]homothermic[/B][/URL][/B] and is burning calories to keep its body temperature up. Gammaroids are probably [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poikilotherm"][B]Poikilothermic[/B][/URL] so only need to eat about a tenth that much, so it's plausible that enough survive Noble Gossamers hunts to reproduce and sustain their numbers. Of course, Gammaroids nutritional requirements might be wildly different from real-world creatures - their diet of "omnivore" could be literally true and they get most of their food from eating asteroids. That said, MC9 does say Noble Gossamers are their favourite prey, so I feel the [B]have[/B] to be able to hunt them regularly without almost certainly dying, which means we should make the Gossamers substantially weaker than the Gammaroid rather than "strengthening them up". [/QUOTE]

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