Storm defense

[Hauw2x]

After my earlier post got locked because of a troll harassment, I decided to make another one

I honestly think storm defense shouldn't occupy a single upgrade slot

How come when every single storm came, in my 90 hours of the game, something always break there's not a single case of storm where it doesn't break anything

Furthermore, doing the Jurassic difficulty challenge amplifies the damage of the storm
In Canada it has reduced vision so the park drops from 5 stars to 1 star
In Germany it has the biggest chance of breaking anything
England was mild, quite a surprise
West USA has the potential to be the most catastrophic. If one of that single crappy fence break, it's mostly carnivores and a lot of guests eaten

Even civilian housing in Japan was build to withstand earth quake

The idea that someone is building a billion dollar park to contain twelve meter reptile with teeth as long as swords, and not provide necessary protection to core buildings that is vital to the operation like the command center is just plain, outright ridiculous, and is just a flair to add a difficulty level

[Five]

maybe

[Meewec]

i only ever build one storm defense in a park, if i build it at all, just for the earlier storm warnings. when you get a warning, pause the game, open all your shelters and ride out the storm sending your rangers out to close fences first as a priority.

if you don't open your shelters you'll take a hit to your park safety rating from the storm and if any dino's get out they'll likely kill guests which hits your safety rating even harder and cost you legal fees.

always keep a fund of cash on hand so you can ride out major storms without going bankrupt and to replace dinosaurs that die because sometimes the loss of a big dino can sink the park too.

[Hauw2x]

Originally posted by Meewec:

i only ever build one storm defense in a park, if i build it at all, just for the earlier storm warnings. when you get a warning, pause the game, open all your shelters and ride out the storm sending your rangers out to close fences first as a priority.

I also do this, all the time. Always open every single shelter during storm
Yet every single storm, there's always something that breaks. It could be minor like some pylon or restroom. It could be major like power plant or operation center

The storm in German breaks the most, in particular. There's one occasion that it literally break half of the operation center buildings that I have

Which begs the question. If you're going to build a dinosaur park, why use chicken fence? With all these shelters, those operation center building are surprisingly easy to break

[Meewec]

Originally posted by Hauw2x:

Which begs the question. If you're going to build a dinosaur park, why use chicken fence? With all these shelters, those operation center building are surprisingly easy to break

gameplay answer - challenge

lore friendly answer - nobody learned the lesson of jurassic park

[Hauw2x]

Originally posted by Meewec:

gameplay answer - challenge

lore friendly answer - nobody learned the lesson of jurassic park

Technically, it would be better if things break because :

1. Management tried to cut corner, which establishes what brought indominus rex in the first place - profits are dwindling

2. Sabotage of rival companies to cause accident, lower stock price, and acquire InGen, which still goes inline with the movies

3. Unhappy guests/protesters/animal rights activist, causing minor, trickle damage. I bought 3 Frontier games and this is the only one without security guards

4. Unhappy and smart dinosaur like Indoraptor which I am glad that it is already in the game

5. Accidents in the lab/hatchery/power plant if proper caution is not met, staff/scientists skill too low, etc

6. Genome not complete and has to be filled with alternatives, dinosaur displayed mental issues like animals in captivity (Sea World Orcas came to mind)

Making the storm cause damage to add difficulty, when it shouldn't have, is just a poor implementation, creatively bankrupt, cutting corners, etc

[Meewec]

i'm sure they spared no expense

[Moe Howard]

I found it an odd design choice to not include storm defense stations like in the first game since you mention it.

[Hauw2x]

Originally posted by Meewec:

i'm sure they spared no expense

Quite the contrary, since some of the dinos you could get at very early phase needs level 3-5 fences. Like the medium carnivores

But the fence was locked until 2.5 stars

Originally posted by Feisty Nermal:

I found it an odd design choice to not include storm defense stations like in the first game since you mention it.

I didn't play the first game but I heard the 2nd is way better let's hope 3rd is even better. Is it true though that the 1st is boring and you mostly just become a ranger?

[Meewec]

Originally posted by Hauw2x:

Originally posted by Meewec:

i'm sure they spared no expense

Quite the contrary, since some of the dinos you could get at very early phase needs level 3-5 fences. Like the medium carnivores

But the fence was locked until 2.5 stars

it was a jurassic park joke. fence level doesn't matter though. sure higher fences resist storm damage better but i usually have more issues with gates than fences. you can use the lowest level fencing for any dinosaur as long as their needs are met because they won't try to escape. this really threw me off when i started playing planet zoo because the animals will escape if they can even if their needs are met.

Originally posted by Hauw2x:

Originally posted by Feisty Nermal:

I found it an odd design choice to not include storm defense stations like in the first game since you mention it.

I didn't play the first game but I heard the 2nd is way better let's hope 3rd is even better. Is it true though that the 1st is boring and you mostly just become a ranger?

the first game was fun enough, i liked the persistent campaign across the islands but some things were very annoying. there were actually food dispensers for plants that you had to refill instead of just planting plants like this one. all dinosaurs could break any fence, it just took longer. there was a weird faction system in your company where if they got too far out of balance it would cause them to start sabotaging the park.

[Hauw2x]

Originally posted by Meewec:

it was a jurassic park joke. fence level doesn't matter though. sure higher fences resist storm damage better but i usually have more issues with gates than fences. you can use the lowest level fencing for any dinosaur as long as their needs are met because they won't try to escape. this really threw me off when i started playing planet zoo because the animals will escape if they can even if their needs are met.

I also play planet zoo. IMHO, way better than Jurassic World
Because you can make really awesome gorgerous zoo. I almost upgraded my PC just because of planet zoo

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3249923007

I'm pretty sure that what you said about fencing level does not matter, is true. Unless it's for intelligent species

I don't know why, but all my 5 initial velociraptors in Jurassic Park always try to break out. Each and every single one of them has level 5 infamy and have killed guests

Maybe it was scripted, true, but it just proves my point that the in game mechanism is lacking, blaming every damage on the storm, where in most of the movies, it's the dinosaurs that cause actual damage, the storm is just a catalyst

Originally posted by Meewec:

the first game was fun enough, i liked the persistent campaign across the islands but some things were very annoying. there were actually food dispensers for plants that you had to refill instead of just planting plants like this one. all dinosaurs could break any fence, it just took longer. there was a weird faction system in your company where if they got too far out of balance it would cause them to start sabotaging the park.

What, food dispenser for plants? Never mind, probably won't buy lol
The idea that I go around the park as cleaning service park ranger is already discouraging enough for me

I already have over 300+ plants in my garden. No need to garden artificial plants, thanks for the input regardless