7: Balance

I started to work on game balance. My goal is to make each of the species valuable. In the early stages of the development, I noticed that a player could ignore bugs and rats and invest only in antelopes, hyenas, and lions.

I have counted the number of points earned by the player for each type of animal. Based on this information, I have changed several things.

• I have increased the number of points earned by rats and hyenas. A rat can earn 2 points for eating a single bug and a hyena can earn 3 points for eating a rat. This makes rats the most useful animal in terms of scoring points. 
• To balance rats, I have also increased the influence area for the hyena and the lion. I have used the chess concept. The area of the lion is similar to the area of the rook, and the hyena's area is similar to the bishop's.

You can see the average points for each animal type after the rebalancing in the attached picture.