Breed dinos as food for another dinos?

[Avi]

Would be worth to make dinos just to feed carnivorous dinos? I mean would be a thing if you can modificate a dino DNA to make it more simplistic and cheap to make, so the carno dinos dont have to eat goats tied with a rope.

[Dies Fourth]

1st were not sure thats the only way to feed anything.

Herbivores yes it seems likely. But in the movies thay used a few different techniques that have become famous so its to early to know if any alternative means will be included in the game.

[K-O-S-M-O-S]

It might be very expensive at first to just pump out Gallimimus constantly just to feed a carnivore, because they are valuable assets.

[OnlyFengs]

My god this is a stupid thread.

The game isn't even out yet, so how can you discuss logistics?

But hey... let's think logically.

What is more expensive? To create a gallimimus or a goat... I'll let your own brain come to its own conclusion.

[Sovereigndrake]

A struthiomimus costs $30,000.

I'm certain that you can easily have more than enough income to pump out those guys as food. If not, you can sell fossils for more than $30,000. The real question here is what happens when the fossil digsites are all empty?

Edit: Sure maybe prices will change outside of dev build, but i don't think so. Also a base Ceratosaurus costs $870,000

Edit 2:
It appears income ticks in ever 10 seconds or so even when you are going thru menus. However, in the dev build even if your "profit per min" is in the negatives, it still ticks upwards.

[Inardesco]

Well, it depends really. In JPOG for instance I never build the herbivore feeders since they took their food from the environment.

Depending on the size of the paddock I would have cows/goats as food or have them be hunting for a more authentic approach.

It honestly depends on what you want to accomplish for that particular paddock.

[Erroll]

The Old Foods Market will only sell a Tyrannosaurus steak from a Rex that ate genuine free range grass fed Gallimimus. We won't look at the GMO issue though..

[Avi]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

Well, it depends really. In JPOG for instance I never build the herbivore feeders since they took their food from the environment.

Depending on the size of the paddock I would have cows/goats as food or have them be hunting for a more authentic approach.

It honestly depends on what you want to accomplish for that particular paddock.

I think I would make a big paddock with a mix of herv/carno dinos just to force confrontation between them. Like you said, herv dinos can eat from environment and carno could make real hunting, I saw in a dev video that dinos can get borred so that could be helpful. I dont know if by adding a observation tower to the paddock, visitors can get amusement by watching those hunting scenes.
Enyway, devs said that dinos breaking through the fences would be a main factor in the game, will happen a lot even if you want to prevent it. So I think that not matter if the dinos get borred or not :/

[Avi]

Oh I remember, dinos in this game have lifespan. So I dont have to worry about economic issues if bring the dinos in their final stage of life to the mix paddock.

[Rowan16]

Think of it this way; do you want to build feeding stations that will not only save you money but also keep your animals healthy, or do you want to waste two to three times as much money and be stuck with the inconvinience of cleaning the dead and risk outbreaks?

As Monty Python would put it, "Bring out your dead!".

[Avi]

Originally posted by Rowan16:

Think of it this way; do you want to build feeding stations that will not only save you money but also keep your animals healthy, or do you want to waste two to three times as much money and be stuck with the inconvinience of cleaning the dead and risk outbreaks?

As Monty Python would put it, "Bring out your dead!".

If you need to clear the dead carcass that change everything indeed. But its not the same danger in "carno only" paddocks? I mean when they pass away.

[Sovereigndrake]

Also, it appears that Herbivores do not feed off the environment in the dev build. I'm not sure if it's an oversight or a silly design decision. I remember a video where the herbivore's "Food" dropped to 0%, however i cannot find it. There are plenty where the dinosaurs will run to the feeder when its placed as though starved.

I would imagine that the dinosaurs SHOULD eat the carcass, but none of the streamers got to play long enough to see that.

[Method4DMad]

Originally posted by Erroll:

The Old Foods Market will only sell a Tyrannosaurus steak from a Rex that ate genuine free range grass fed Gallimimus. We won't look at the GMO issue though..

Mmmm gluten free Gallimimus

Sounds expensive

[SotF]

You know, I wonder if you can adjust the dinosaurs so that they do have genders for eventual stock breeding. Perhaps adding some goldfish DNA to some gally's for feeders...

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by SotF:

Perhaps adding some goldfish DNA to some gally's for feeders...

So they forget where the feeder is? Or they forget to have legs and start doing Magikarp splash?

[Maalzibub]

Ultimately, having dinosaurs that breed works best practically. Eventually they die and need to be replaced, especially the ones you took a lot of work to create and are pricey.

I mentioned before maybe you can unlock a genome that has a 50% chance to let the dinosaur change their sex. Like in Jurassic Park where they used a specific frog DNA that allowed this to happen. Dispute it if you want but it is part of the JP lore and it isn't far-fetched. Eventually I want to build a self-sustaining eco-system where my guests can have tours through the nature reserve I created and get a real, thrilling experience of dinosaur behaviour and interactions.