Is this an idle game?

[LarryWF]

Haven't played it, but watching some streams it looks like it's mostly about waiting for timers to complete and managing status bars. So is this just a nicer looking mobile/facebook idle/incremental or clicker type game?

[MisterFlagg]

Well ...you can try to idle on the later islands ...please upload a video :-DDDD

[FlyingFish]

Currently all I do with this game is turn it on and do something else. So yes, it sometimes is idle. You spend more time watiing then doing in this game. I'm at the point of just waiting for enough money to fully rescape isla Sorna to try and make it a decent looking park. Which means just waiting and sometimes checking in on the game to make sure the dinos have food and haven't excaped from a strom.
The islands are so small, even the sandbox island, that there isn't much you can play around with while you wait. It is impossible to have seperate enclosers for every dino in the game.

Missions are long and repititive. Find this fossil, add this modifaction to this dino, release this dino with this one, build another of this type of building even thought you arealdy have five, watch these 10 millon dollar dinos that take fifteen minutes to make fight each other. Rinse and repeat.

I like a lot of aspects about this game. But some are very annyoing.

[Shane]

by end of the game you will be literally exhausted with fossil collecting and repeating cack objectives just to increase reputation

[Storm]

Originally posted by LarryWF:

Haven't played it, but watching some streams it looks like it's mostly about waiting for timers to complete and managing status bars. So is this just a nicer looking mobile/facebook idle/incremental or clicker type game?

Not an idle game necessarily but it does feel like a mobile game that got switched over to pc halfway through production. If that concerns you wait a year or so for a decent sale and by then there will be more content updates hopefully adding water and flying dinos.

[Moose_knuckle]

I wouldnt say its as bad as a mobile game, it has some pretty boring busy work sometimes (refilling feeders ect) once the park gets over a certain size but hopefully this will be smoothed out. You can still be fairly creative with the parks but it does need more content if people are going to keep playing.

[Storm]

Originally posted by Moose_knuckle:

I wouldnt say its as bad as a mobile game, it has some pretty boring busy work sometimes (refilling feeders ect) once the park gets over a certain size but hopefully this will be smoothed out. You can still be fairly creative with the parks but it does need more content if people are going to keep playing.

It falls like in between mobile and pc.

[Alopekis]

Originally posted by LarryWF:

Haven't played it, but watching some streams it looks like it's mostly about waiting for timers to complete and managing status bars. So is this just a nicer looking mobile/facebook idle/incremental or clicker type game?

To some extent yes, but if you aren't paying attention things can go pretty bad pretty fast.

[Wylie28]

I have done zero waiting. There is always something to be doing. People are waiting because they want to, or are just subborn.

[Moose_knuckle]

Originally posted by JSDF - Thus They Fought There!:

Originally posted by Moose_knuckle:

I wouldnt say its as bad as a mobile game, it has some pretty boring busy work sometimes (refilling feeders ect) once the park gets over a certain size but hopefully this will be smoothed out. You can still be fairly creative with the parks but it does need more content if people are going to keep playing.

It falls like in between mobile and pc.

To be fair i really dont think i've played a mobile game ever but I do know someone who plays those cookie clicker games or whatever. Bit of an unfair comparison i'd say though, the games a bit basic in areas in its current state but it does involve a little stratergy and planning.

[Storm]

Originally posted by Moose_knuckle:

Originally posted by JSDF - Thus They Fought There!:

It falls like in between mobile and pc.

To be fair i really dont think i've played a mobile game ever but I do know someone who plays those cookie clicker games or whatever. Bit of an unfair comparison i'd say though, the games a bit basic in areas in its current state but it does involve a little stratergy and planning.

There is some strategy to mobile games. Not all them are just idle clickers.

Edit: I was thinking more of the types of games where you have an energy pool that refills over time and is basically used like action points. The wait times for stuff which do seem too long to me feels kinda like that. But these wait times would technically work if there was an in game currency like gems/rubies or whatever that you could buy with real money to speed things up or refill the energy pool to do more stuff.

[morph113]

Originally posted by Wylie28:

I have done zero waiting. There is always something to be doing. People are waiting because they want to, or are just subborn.

Same here. I have done no waiting in the game. There is always something to do. Digging for fossils in dig sites is indeed time based but it's not like you don't have anything else to do. I've watched a few people stream the game and they weren't waiting on timers as well.