Some balance issues. My Thoughts.

There seems to be some balance issues in the game, which I feel is taking away a bit from the enjoyment of it, and feeling like you're really running a Jurassic Park. It also leads to hair pulling scenarios in some situations which you can get yourself into even while being careful that makes the game literally unplayable where you have to restart, or reload a past save.

- The ACU helicopter being the ONLY way to take down a dino.

I ran into this problem while playing. I waited until I got the first Island to 5 stars before doing anything else. I then went to the second Island. (not the sandbox main Island where the 2 main movies were, even though I had it unlocked) The second island you unlock, with the heavy storms, etc. you need to get through that slowly and carefully at the start. I put 4 Stetho's into it, and waited, built a few shops, and watched the money slowly ever so slowly trickle in. I decided to help boost my star rating, and such I'd incubate 1 Draco as well. Here's where everythingwent south fast.

That 1 Draco had his social meter 1% under. Which dramatically dropped his happiness. and he instantly started ramming the gate. You don't get enough money to start out to build an ACU, not if you are going to put a few dino's out and build up. Especially since you start with -15k income a minute.

So tell me why a ranger in a jeep can't Tranq 1 herbivore... It makes no sense.. small Herbivores.. or really.. ANY Dino should be able to be tranq'd with a Jeep Ranger. WIth the chances of your jeep/Ranger crew getting killed with larger more aggressive dino's drastically going up in danger levels. Even heavily armored herbivores could put up a challenge for them or take much longer to take down with the jeep, but still doable. The ACU Helicopter being the 100% safest naturally since no dino can touch it, still making it the necessity for large parks.

Now I'm waiting with 20k per min to get 400k to build an ACU just to tranq this 1 slightly annoyed herbivore walking around my park and causing everyone to run in terror.... It's honestly quite ridiculous... especially with how docile it is..

- Replenishing food is same cost no matter what.

Another problem I found, was the fact that every time you go to replace, or replenish the food, its the same cost regardless of how much is actually being replenished.

- Size of the maps...
I mean.. really?.... inb4 "Cuz consoles"....
 
I've noticed a price difference on the feeders. With one or two goats down, it's like 20k, but when it's empty it's 120; or so. I didn't pay much attention (money isn't an issue), but I'm pretty sure the price does change (at least on the live feeder).
 
So to summarise the OP: "I bought too many dinos before getting ACU support and messed up" ;)

I've had that happen too - annoying isn't it? But I learned that having the $$ for an ACU is useful, so I tend to send out explo and hope for $$ fossils early on, and now I tend to have an ACU earlier. Simples.
 
Well Dracorex is a social animal that needs a herd and other dinos of it's kind in order to thrive. And it's very aggressive when not happy. So I don't really understand why you would incubate only ONE in the first place. You can't keep it happy that way?

I see nothing wrong with the game here, just your choices of play. No offense. :D

I don't incubate any dinosaurs I know will escape, before I'm certain I can keep them happy. I haven't progressed to the second island yet though. I'm still on the first one with 4,5 star rating and 40 million in the bank. I have a large paddock with Dracorex and Trikes. They doesn't cause me any problems. :)
 
Well Dracorex is a social animal that needs a herd and other dinos of it's kind in order to thrive. And it's very aggressive when not happy. So I don't really understand why you would incubate only ONE in the first place. You can't keep it happy that way?

I see nothing wrong with the game here, just your choices of play. No offense. :D

I don't incubate any dinosaurs I know will escape, before I'm certain I can keep them happy. I haven't progressed to the second island yet though. I'm still on the first one with 4,5 star rating and 40 million in the bank. I have a large paddock with Dracorex and Trikes. They doesn't cause me any problems. :)

No offense, but its stupid that 1 little mistake of 1 little dino, that should be easily manageable with 1 dude in a truck with a tranq rifle to take care of completely and utterly collapses the entire park. the fact that NOTHING before incubating it suggested that 1 dino couldn't handle the utter complete depression of being alone with 2 other not of its kind for longer than 2 seconds and would instantly rebel and go ape , resulting in him smashing down the gate and me having all NOTHING I can do about it. Has nothing to do with playstyle or bad decisions. Its a balance issue.

So to summarise the OP: "I bought too many dinos before getting ACU support and messed up" ;)

I've had that happen too - annoying isn't it? But I learned that having the $$ for an ACU is useful, so I tend to send out explo and hope for $$ fossils early on, and now I tend to have an ACU earlier. Simples.

I didn't buy too many dino's, read again. IN-fact I bought too little.. I should of bought 3 others in a span of 2 seconds as, read above what I responded to that other dude. Thanks for the worthless reply though. god speed.
 
It's because it's a Jurassic park/world sim. Where one mistake or overlook caused huge problems so it makes sense if that where part of the game too.
 
No, but you do start out with a second HCL ( Hammond Creation Lab ) which you can sell. In fact, sell everything you don't need right away; you'll likely end up with >1 million.
Now remove the middle fence so you have one large paddock, then push out some modified Trics and Stru's as modified dinosaurs have a higher rating, a higher rating brings in more people which brings in more money. Stru's are cheap, and Trics are iconic ( meaning they're a bigger attraction, i,e: more guests ).

You'll be sitting on about 30,000/min very quickly. Then you can slowly rebuild the park.

You don't get enough money to start out to build an ACU, not if you are going to put a few dino's out and build up. Especially since you start with -15k income a minute.
 
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