Huge islands / tiny maps ! (again)

[Otus Scops]

I just saw the trailer of the new dlc (Claire's Sanctuary), and it's still the same problem : Huge islands / tiny maps !
This is something I do not understand and that is really frustrating! They could have made maps
much bigger! And do not come talk to me about "challenge"! A Challenge is supposed to be fun. Having small maps to build on is not a challenge, it's boring and frustrating! And in addition it reduces the creative potential and the life of the game!

I wish I could discover the islands that I saw in the movies! and I want them all, from north to south and from east to west!

[_ALuX_]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Basil (Julie is best girl):

Diposting pertama kali oleh Icepick UK:

You need multiple power stations on the map
You need multiple hotels on the map
You need a Ranger and transport hub
You need Research, excavation and fossil centre
Oh and for some reason all these buildings also need paths....

Now you can (and also need to because the maps are UNACCEPTABLY too small) draw some blueprint plan to try and limit the impact these massive buildings have on your tiny build area but even if you enjoy doing meticulous ♥♥♥♥ just to cover bottom-tier design choices then you are still left with a large space of your tiny map taken up and thats before we have even started building enclosures and guest attractions.
For the record im not against any of the above being included in the game if the devs were competent enough during development to realise the game they made just isnt fun, and sadly it isnt fun for a sole reason that I would have assumed anybody with a brain cell wouldn't have taken too long to work out

I'm aware of all the requirements; I've been redesigning my non-sandpox parks to make them aesthetically pleasing yet also functional. I can achieve this easily. It's really not the game's fault. Even when putting down every utility I still have space left over after making enclosures.
Power stations you can upgrade 5 times, if you use one outage protection 2.0 and one 3.0 alongside three 3.0's you'll have a power supply usable for about 75% of a park the size of Muerta East.

In the screenshots in this imgur link you can see how I allocated my park space. The game isn't bad, the maps aren't too small, you're just bad at allocation. As you can see I have plenty space left. The only island I have trouble with is Pena, and that's part of its challenge.
https://imgur.com/a/8mSKV1h
I'd show you Sorna and the two Tacaño areas, but I haven't done those yet, and Nublar isn't included in here cos sandbox.

Wait you managed to cram 4 enclosures on Pena? I only got 3 lol

[LadyDragonfury]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Basil (Julie is best girl):

Diposting pertama kali oleh _ALuX_:

Don't forget that Bestinslot has made numerous video uploads dedicated to him trying to cram every dinosaur in the game into one park and succeeding.

not only does he succeed, but in his most recent series he had nearly half of Nublar remain unused.

Oh yeah I was watching that. He actually got worried it was going to look too empty at one point XD

[_ALuX_]

Diposting pertama kali oleh _ALuX_:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Basil (Julie is best girl):

I'm aware of all the requirements; I've been redesigning my non-sandpox parks to make them aesthetically pleasing yet also functional. I can achieve this easily. It's really not the game's fault. Even when putting down every utility I still have space left over after making enclosures.
Power stations you can upgrade 5 times, if you use one outage protection 2.0 and one 3.0 alongside three 3.0's you'll have a power supply usable for about 75% of a park the size of Muerta East.

In the screenshots in this imgur link you can see how I allocated my park space. The game isn't bad, the maps aren't too small, you're just bad at allocation. As you can see I have plenty space left. The only island I have trouble with is Pena, and that's part of its challenge.
https://imgur.com/a/8mSKV1h
I'd show you Sorna and the two Tacaño areas, but I haven't done those yet, and Nublar isn't included in here cos sandbox.

Wait you managed to cram 4 enclosures on Pena? I only got 3 lol

Wait NVM that was just one part of Muerta

[BasiliskArt]

Diposting pertama kali oleh _ALuX_:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Basil (Julie is best girl):

I'm aware of all the requirements; I've been redesigning my non-sandpox parks to make them aesthetically pleasing yet also functional. I can achieve this easily. It's really not the game's fault. Even when putting down every utility I still have space left over after making enclosures.
Power stations you can upgrade 5 times, if you use one outage protection 2.0 and one 3.0 alongside three 3.0's you'll have a power supply usable for about 75% of a park the size of Muerta East.

In the screenshots in this imgur link you can see how I allocated my park space. The game isn't bad, the maps aren't too small, you're just bad at allocation. As you can see I have plenty space left. The only island I have trouble with is Pena, and that's part of its challenge.
https://imgur.com/a/8mSKV1h
I'd show you Sorna and the two Tacaño areas, but I haven't done those yet, and Nublar isn't included in here cos sandbox.

Wait you managed to cram 4 enclosures on Pena? I only got 3 lol

I didn't include Pena, I can show you if you want to see.
https://imgur.com/a/89OAlLS
this is my Pena.

[LadyDragonfury]

6 enclosures on Pena ^^

[Whiteshark01]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Icepick UK:

Diposting pertama kali oleh masteradstriker:

Guys please, just be thankful. It's three times better than it was when released, and you still have the guts to 'complain'

Because all they really add are dinosaur reskins... Which you can't put in the park anyway... Because theres only space for 10% of them

yet you can fit all 59 species on Nublar... with like a quarter/nearly half of the map free entirely with no planning. Come the ♥♥♥♥ on man, if you're gonna lie at least make it believable. The arguments that Herrersaurus and Proceratosaurus are reskins are blatantly false; Dreadnoughtus, acro and Carchar I can understand. But really?

[_ALuX_]

Too add onto what Whiteshark01 has said:

To make individual animations to each and every dinosaur would be far too painstaking, thus the reason why so many dinosaurs share animations with other dinosaurs that happen to have similar body shapes. If you were to group every dinosaur animations via body shape you would find that a lot of these categories would have about one or two dinosaurs (I.E. Apatosaurus and Diplodocus). Very few dinosaurs are entirely unique, like Troodon and Herraresaurus, but please keep in mind that this was done due to technical and scientific reasons and not out of laziness.

Moreover, to add to this, I have even found that just because two dinosaurs share an animation set does not mean they all have the same animations. Take the Acro mentioned in Whiteshark01's post, the Acro has a unique headbutt animation that isn't seen on any other previously released dinosaur. So if you take out every dinosaur that has a single unique animation and classify them as a "unique" then you have an even bigger list of unique animals. This doesn't just apply to the DLC dinos and hybrids either. Dilophosaurus belongs in this category too, and I'm pretty sure there are a few more, but I don't exactly have the time to go looking.

[Lord Trilobite]

As others have said, some people are just terrible at allocating space.

The maps really are not small at all.
Some are, yes. But as has been pointed out, Pena can easily fit 6 enclosures and probably more if you squeeze a bit.
I don't think I've filled a single map completely except Pena. All the other maps I always have room to spare. The maps really are plenty big.
The new Nublar North map is also quite huge.

And some people forget that having restrictions makes for interesting gameplay. This is just how it works. Having no restrictions at all will get boring pretty quick. Smaller maps will force people to be creative and make more unique parks at the same time because they have to work with the terrain instead of ignoring it completely.

That being said. It could still be interesting to have an even bigger sandbox map for those that want it. So people can make their dream parks. But for the standard campaign the maps really are completely fine as they are.

[ThruuLottleDats]

Diposting pertama kali oleh _ALuX_:

To make individual animations to each and every dinosaur would be far too painstaking,

I would be pleased enough if they could make unique animations for Stegosaurs, Ceratopsians, Hadrosaurs, Ankylosaurs and then have them all 2-3 animations for the same action.

That in and of itself should create enough variety in the animation department which would liven the animals up a lot more instead of them being animatronics that can only do a single thing. Nothing irks me more than seeing an Anykosaur lumber around slower than a snail and then jump into action like it's a puppy on too much cuddles.

[TyranntX]

It's still very possible to fit every species of dinosaur on one island, and still have room for more. Just look at Best In Slot, he did it three times already