Originally Posted by
HorTyS
Montana is a huge state, but only has a population of about a million people, and most of that population is concentrated on the bigger towns (I would know, I live in one of the bigger ones) there is alot of land mass, but I do agree, it will take some cleverness to justify not being able to get in contact with civilization. However none of the past FC games have been set in actual real-world places, they're always a fictionalized version, so I guess maybe the "Hope County" that the game is rumored to be set in could just be a less populated area, I do hope we get a bigger town/ settlement than we've ever had before though, could be cool.
As for being a cop and how they're going to justify you being unfamiliar with the area, I was thinking maybe you're a recent transfer, maybe you are a new cop (inexperienced, "I've never shot anyone before" type) and you just transferred or moved to the area. Also MT does have plenty of wild animals, I don't think there is a zoo in the state actually. When I was a kid we had deer in our backyard and my dad hunted mountain lions. Our dogs tree'd a bear in our back yard and my dad called his friend who had a hunting tag for one and the guy came & shot it out of the tree... no zoos are going to be necessary to justify a wide variety of wild animals... Black & Grizzly bears, mountain lions, bobcat, lynx, badgers, wolverines maybe? then your standard deer, elk, antelope rabbits, foxes skunks all the smaller creatures...Rattlesnakes... plenty of animal fodder for our pouch crafting needs!!
The hardest part is going to be justifying being isolated & cut off from any sort of backup...