Question about hill giant population

[Dolalin]

(as mentioned to Telin in a PM before thread unlock: )

Not sure about the duplicate pets sometimes in the excel sheet. It's not a perfectly clean source.

But I do think the pet dupes are an isolated anomaly.

A way to check the sanity of the count numbers for a zone, that I have done, is to look at mobs in a zone for which you know what the exact count should be (eg static spawns), and correlate them with the count on the sheet.

For rathe mountains, I see there are counts of orc warriors and orc priests, etc. Does that line up with expected numbers given the known orc camp spawns? Barbed bone and skeletal monk spawns? Etc.

I found for other zones like old Paw, the sheet said there were exactly 2 skeletons and 2 zombies in zone, and sure enough I found a newsgroup post saying that the Ghanex Drah room had exactly 2 skeletons and 2 zombies. So I know the numbers can be accurate. Whether they always are? Just have to use our best judgment.