Jurassic difficulty

[Ellorien]

Okay, been playing Canada on Jurassic difficulty for many hours. I think by now I am reasonably proficient with the game and kinda know what I am doing but whatever I do, I just cannot reach 5 stars.
I did all challenges on medium difficulty just fine. Now, I have 180% appeal, 56/56 Dino visibility, $15-20 million to spend, monorail, several large hotels, profitable amenities… and can’t get profit higher than slightly over 1 million per minute. Need 1.2 million. Nothing works. What am I doing wrong? Tried to reload earlier saves, did some things a bit different… Less appeal, more profit… that sort of things?.. Nope. Still stuck on 4 -4.4 stars, depending on the storm impact. The overall appeal is so high that when my mosa died, that did not make a dent on my ratings. Imagine that. I don’t even need another mosasaurus. All I need is about +$180.000 profit. And I. Can’t. Get. It.

Looked up some guides and videos but they all seem to be posted long before the latest update. Maybe the update broke the game???

[Triassic Time Traveler]

this video was helpfull for me =>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hkzC-VOwjc&t=779s

he also got jurassic difficulty tutorials for the other 4 maps

[Ellorien]

Thank you but I already watched this one. Does not help because I already have a 10 times better park than the one he built. With every animal having 100% comfort. Better animals, better everything.
As I previously mentioned, all these guides seem to be outdated.
My problem is I am unable to maximize the number of guests I need in order to reach the target profit. I am getting only about 2/3 of the potential guests despite the insane appeal, good (configured) amenity coverage, 2 gyroscope rides, monorail, tons of attractions, innovation center, etc.

[Raft]

did u upgrade your roads - the widest road?

Before I widened my roads/paths, there was always a gap between 'potential guests' and 'guest count'. After I widened my roads, this gap was minimal/gone. If the roads are too narrow, that's the bottleneck. Regardless of how high your dino appeal is, if your roads are too narrow, u can't maximize guests/profit.

[Ellorien]

Yes I did.

[fourthgenerationgamer]

Maybe you can chip your upkeep down by firing your scientists or reducing exhibit size or exhibit count. If your mosasaurus dying doesn't affect attendance it might be something obnoxious like guest percentages.

[Ellorien]

Yes, tried to fire all my scientists, too — with zero effect. It is really ridiculous that I can’t close the relatively tiny gap.

What is guest percentage?

[martin77]

one important thing for me was to build more attractions!
i also was on a point where all was good - but dont reached the 5th star!
look at the potential visitors - if you dont reach the line this can be the case

[Ellorien]

I built the innovation center, three or four different attractions and two gyroscope rides — more than enough.
Some obscure mechanics I obviously don’t understand prevent me from finishing this stupid scenario.
Seriously, if we care so much about our Dinos, why would we want to build a park in the least suitable biome?? And why would we hire a bunch of inefficient but highly overpriced “scientists” from the third world?? No wonder our research cost is through the roof.

[Raft]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

And why would we hire a bunch of inefficient but highly overpriced “scientists” from the third world?? No wonder our research cost is through the roof.

That's racism.

[Raft]

I finished the Jurassic challenge in Canada a few days ago. The latest updates did not break the game. The first 4 stars took 5+ hours. The last star took 5+ hours. In total it took me 11+ hours to reach 5 stars. For me, this Canada Jurassic Challenge took the longest time among all 5 in JWE2. I probably should have fired several scientists earlier in the challenge.

The 5 stars breakdown:

Income: 1.21m per minute
Guests: 2020/2184
Ticket sales: 660k
Amenities: 460k
Appeal: 15074 (251% target) - Breakdown:
82/68 Dinosaurs visible
22/11 species target
7 entertainment attractions gives 850 appeal

Here is a screenshot of my 5 Star Canada Jurassic challenge:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812031032

Conclusion:
Boosting your park appeal will increase your ticket sales and income if you have enough amenities to go along with them. Remember that the appeal targets are just targets. In easy mode, I didn't even hit the appeal target (68%) and reached 5 stars. In Jurassic mode it was the opposite: I had to exceed it (251%) to reach 5 stars.

Since you have $15m+ to spend, I suggest that you should try releasing 5 mosasaurus at once. Have a separate save for this attempt. It would be uncomfortable for the dinos, but this should hit the target and complete the challenge. Then, update here about how it goes.

[Delta_BOSS]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

Okay, been playing Canada on Jurassic difficulty for many hours. I think by now I am reasonably proficient with the game and kinda know what I am doing but whatever I do, I just cannot reach 5 stars.
I did all challenges on medium difficulty just fine. Now, I have 180% appeal, 56/56 Dino visibility, $15-20 million to spend, monorail, several large hotels, profitable amenities… and can’t get profit higher than slightly over 1 million per minute. Need 1.2 million. Nothing works. What am I doing wrong? Tried to reload earlier saves, did some things a bit different… Less appeal, more profit… that sort of things?.. Nope. Still stuck on 4 -4.4 stars, depending on the storm impact. The overall appeal is so high that when my mosa died, that did not make a dent on my ratings. Imagine that. I don’t even need another mosasaurus. All I need is about +$180.000 profit. And I. Can’t. Get. It.

Looked up some guides and videos but they all seem to be posted long before the latest update. Maybe the update broke the game???

This is my Canada 5 star park on Jurassic. It's not showing 5 star on the screenshot because it dropped just after for some reasons (sick dino and maybe a dead mosasaurus, can't remember)

EDIT: Oh, I had Baryonyx within Brachiosaurus enclosure - amongst other herbivors. Since Baryonyx prefers fish and had is little spot, he wasn't causing too much trouble. I had 1 or 2 more Ceratosaurus, add to that 1 Mosasaurus. They died I think just after I reached 5 star.

This is actually one thing I must say good and thumbs up as improvement from game 1 to game 2.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2700616799
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369483
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369489
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369494
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369577
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369586
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369583
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369600
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369594
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2812369608

[HippoStoned]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

Okay, been playing Canada on Jurassic difficulty for many hours. I think by now I am reasonably proficient with the game and kinda know what I am doing but whatever I do, I just cannot reach 5 stars.
I did all challenges on medium difficulty just fine. Now, I have 180% appeal, 56/56 Dino visibility, $15-20 million to spend, monorail, several large hotels, profitable amenities… and can’t get profit higher than slightly over 1 million per minute. Need 1.2 million. Nothing works. What am I doing wrong? Tried to reload earlier saves, did some things a bit different… Less appeal, more profit… that sort of things?.. Nope. Still stuck on 4 -4.4 stars, depending on the storm impact. The overall appeal is so high that when my mosa died, that did not make a dent on my ratings. Imagine that. I don’t even need another mosasaurus. All I need is about +$180.000 profit. And I. Can’t. Get. It.

Looked up some guides and videos but they all seem to be posted long before the latest update. Maybe the update broke the game???

The game is absolutely bs, you can see i have done absolutely everything you can do and i still couldn’t get over 3 stars in Northwest USA Jurassic.

By the end of the stream and 13 hour mark, i have 85 million, 11 dinos. 2.8 stars. Guests are happy. Amenity coverage is 100% transportation 100%, dino visibility 100% etc and some how i was stuck below 3 stars makes no sense!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1797402598

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by BravoOne-PC:

makes no sense!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyDpS-GftCk

[Fat Tony]

park rating is rated only against your revenue per minute.

All other things we manage in the park only affect our revenue and profits.

Save room for many medium shops. Near the end of challenges place them where-ever the map view says blue (indicating light need).... Most times the medium shops are full by the time I get them setup to cater to guests. When in doubt it will show you a # of guests expected if you let the shop snap to the path.

Don't worry about turning a good profit at the end; just spam to squeeze out max revenue