Hey there Frontier
I try to write a usefull post but we'll see if i succeed. I have around 10-15k hours in many diffrent Build and RTS games and might my opinions on your game will help you develop a great successor or even a dlc.
I will try to Organize the post somewhat but please don't bite me apart if i fail as i tend to rubberduck heavly things can get pretty messy
The Gameplay:
In overall the gameplay itself is "kinda" statisfing i won't say it really is, since the game limits you in way to many ways. I don't quite get why you would limit us in such ways aside from making the game mainly console or to make your engine be able to handle your content. The thing is even in how limited we are its still so easy to achive literally anything you would like to achive. Money, challanges and even the heaviest part, the storms got really nerved (wich i really like tbh difficulty shouldn't be added by a tornado wich just rampages trough everything and you have togo trough and repeat certain action a hundred of times again <- boring, if the storms would be more diffrent and actually add something aside from a few dinos going crazy alright but like this its a pure wast of literally everything but more to this later).
The quests are honestly just really nothing i would call interesting or the reputation?Jesus christ i don't even know why its in there not even once i got a issue with one of those factions. All of the quest seem to me as a "patch" to cover for all of the time wich went into the dinos and the animation, wich isn't a bad thing but it leaves a crazy amount of improvementspace for a JWE2.
-> Buildings; The buildings are fine but use in overall to much space in a way of them getting to repettetive. When i have a island it looks absurd to have 15 times the same hotel over it just to not have to many people visiting ( i haven't even pushed things i would get completly out of controll). I pray you guys please take a diffrent approach. give buildings upgrades and show on the streets on how far they reach. I kinda like the idea with how many people are working in them to add capacity but still its not enough. I need more buildings or ones wich better scale with higher visitor counts. so i don't have to waste at least 50% of my space for them to have a 5 star Rating ( if the star rating is even needed is another thing but more to that later). We need a way to display how far each building reaches etc. ( may look at anno 1800 for a good example). If you want to make the building part more complex why not orientate yourself on the real world? After all we are working for the Hammond comp. so why not let us be able to import stuff from the coorporation at start you need to put things together yourself and you need more space for the same stuff but then later when you have more income you could outsurce it and just import it. After all we are on a island there are literally infinite ways of how you could set all these things up. Like maybe by putting all the Islands on one map and we can even make traderoutes (imagine if we get Aquatic Reptiles then and they murder our ships :S) that'd be just amazing. I understand where you guys come from you want us to build a park and not just make a sandboxgame you want to give us a campaing and somewhat something we can achive but tbh the campaing has been nothing more than an annoyoance in overall (aside from Voiceactors (not the ones from the Factions they're repetitive af and incredibel annoying)).
I don't know if i'm asking to much but imagine if we actually had to run the park, the administratios, the trading, the breeding etc. instead of just klicking, klicking and so on. If any dev likes this idea i would even paint it out on a sheet to visualize what i mean.
-> Dinos; ngl i love the Dinos they're perfect i don't need feathers or scientifics this is after the films after all. Maybe tho allow us to play more with Genes if you don't know what i mean i can only reffer on how star citizen generates their faces ( they use smth they even call DNA) if you guys would let us actually let us manipulate us numbers in such a system jesus fkn christ that would be insane.
-> Feeding etc.; the Feeding is just like the pseudo difficulty with storms its absolutly cabbage (in my opinion). Its super unstatisfying to just klick always the same stuff over again why not let us grow, trade and then automate the feeding process etc. (watch the buildings part above for more)
-> Escaping; Dinos escaping from a cage.. you know i get it, its jurrasic park and yeah people have to die and you have to keep them save and fullfill your dinos needs but with how your systems run never even once a crysis can happen wich actually endangers your park. Its just another thing to give you smth to do and try to add difficulty but actually you just making it a little bit annyoing. Imagine if the systems above would be done and one thing breaks and many other things would go wild and maybe you wouldn't even be able to get back from it and you would have to reload and/or restart.. This would be a challange this would be fun and even give the game a the so much needed replayability so i can spend hundreds of hours and you can sell each Dinos as a DLC hahaha
-> Visitor Transport; i don't even have a word in how ridicilous this is solved tbh. just connects perfectly in how the buildings are done generally. I myself was and am still dissapointed. Why not let us connect cages and let the Gyrospheres and other likewise attractions mouve trough gates and let them add to it aswell so that we don't have to use that "thing" or at least make it something i dunnow i don't even know why am saying it maybe bc it just kinda add smth to the park but actually doesn't add anything wich just adds up to how dissapointed i am with the buildings? Maybe the game is just much more Casual than i would like it to be.
Don't get me wrong i still like the game i have around 200 hrs in it i think? but at this point i have absolutly Zero Reason to play it ever again nor to even buy a JWE 2 if i see its made the same way tbh.
For me it feel like you guys spent 95% time on the dinos then realized oh people might don't just wanna watch them and "patched" "gameplay" on top. This may sound harsh but it is how it feels for me. I'm not saying its bad overall i would still consider this a alright game not great or smth but its alright. It just hurts to see how much of an amazing game this could be. but then again the details from this game, in a game like i would have in my mind i don't know if it even could run on anthing like a console... but maybe thats a small error you guys made? I remember when this game launched xD god i couldn't even thinking of playing it with mouse and keyboard ( wich now i could, props for improoving this so much i wasn't expecting this ngl).
About the campaing again... you know the way how you guys done it i dunnow i could imagine it like this much more in a First person game like how it is like this. I dunnow feels just not right.
All this aside i love some of the details, like when i drive in the route i set up and they explain the dinos and i can join in the ride is smth really amazing.
And please.. what are these small islands? i'm sory but honestly and the terrain sculting options just made it worse xD god u know ngl it wasn't all to bad but bigger circles or some options of whiping an island would've saved me a lot of nerves (even ground in the middle to automatically gain the most space :S smth i would've killed for)? what are these xD? i'm loosing myself here a bit theres so much things wich could've been done but i think i'm dreaming of another game... well maybe one day we'll see smth like this who knows my hope will never die.
With this i conclude this may a bit confusing statement or feedback? hm.. Well if anyone has any Questions i will do my best to explain everything as good as i can in this foreing language called english.
Greetings Ice
I try to write a usefull post but we'll see if i succeed. I have around 10-15k hours in many diffrent Build and RTS games and might my opinions on your game will help you develop a great successor or even a dlc.
I will try to Organize the post somewhat but please don't bite me apart if i fail as i tend to rubberduck heavly things can get pretty messy
The Gameplay:
In overall the gameplay itself is "kinda" statisfing i won't say it really is, since the game limits you in way to many ways. I don't quite get why you would limit us in such ways aside from making the game mainly console or to make your engine be able to handle your content. The thing is even in how limited we are its still so easy to achive literally anything you would like to achive. Money, challanges and even the heaviest part, the storms got really nerved (wich i really like tbh difficulty shouldn't be added by a tornado wich just rampages trough everything and you have togo trough and repeat certain action a hundred of times again <- boring, if the storms would be more diffrent and actually add something aside from a few dinos going crazy alright but like this its a pure wast of literally everything but more to this later).
The quests are honestly just really nothing i would call interesting or the reputation?Jesus christ i don't even know why its in there not even once i got a issue with one of those factions. All of the quest seem to me as a "patch" to cover for all of the time wich went into the dinos and the animation, wich isn't a bad thing but it leaves a crazy amount of improvementspace for a JWE2.
-> Buildings; The buildings are fine but use in overall to much space in a way of them getting to repettetive. When i have a island it looks absurd to have 15 times the same hotel over it just to not have to many people visiting ( i haven't even pushed things i would get completly out of controll). I pray you guys please take a diffrent approach. give buildings upgrades and show on the streets on how far they reach. I kinda like the idea with how many people are working in them to add capacity but still its not enough. I need more buildings or ones wich better scale with higher visitor counts. so i don't have to waste at least 50% of my space for them to have a 5 star Rating ( if the star rating is even needed is another thing but more to that later). We need a way to display how far each building reaches etc. ( may look at anno 1800 for a good example). If you want to make the building part more complex why not orientate yourself on the real world? After all we are working for the Hammond comp. so why not let us be able to import stuff from the coorporation at start you need to put things together yourself and you need more space for the same stuff but then later when you have more income you could outsurce it and just import it. After all we are on a island there are literally infinite ways of how you could set all these things up. Like maybe by putting all the Islands on one map and we can even make traderoutes (imagine if we get Aquatic Reptiles then and they murder our ships :S) that'd be just amazing. I understand where you guys come from you want us to build a park and not just make a sandboxgame you want to give us a campaing and somewhat something we can achive but tbh the campaing has been nothing more than an annoyoance in overall (aside from Voiceactors (not the ones from the Factions they're repetitive af and incredibel annoying)).
I don't know if i'm asking to much but imagine if we actually had to run the park, the administratios, the trading, the breeding etc. instead of just klicking, klicking and so on. If any dev likes this idea i would even paint it out on a sheet to visualize what i mean.
-> Dinos; ngl i love the Dinos they're perfect i don't need feathers or scientifics this is after the films after all. Maybe tho allow us to play more with Genes if you don't know what i mean i can only reffer on how star citizen generates their faces ( they use smth they even call DNA) if you guys would let us actually let us manipulate us numbers in such a system jesus fkn christ that would be insane.
-> Feeding etc.; the Feeding is just like the pseudo difficulty with storms its absolutly cabbage (in my opinion). Its super unstatisfying to just klick always the same stuff over again why not let us grow, trade and then automate the feeding process etc. (watch the buildings part above for more)
-> Escaping; Dinos escaping from a cage.. you know i get it, its jurrasic park and yeah people have to die and you have to keep them save and fullfill your dinos needs but with how your systems run never even once a crysis can happen wich actually endangers your park. Its just another thing to give you smth to do and try to add difficulty but actually you just making it a little bit annyoing. Imagine if the systems above would be done and one thing breaks and many other things would go wild and maybe you wouldn't even be able to get back from it and you would have to reload and/or restart.. This would be a challange this would be fun and even give the game a the so much needed replayability so i can spend hundreds of hours and you can sell each Dinos as a DLC hahaha
-> Visitor Transport; i don't even have a word in how ridicilous this is solved tbh. just connects perfectly in how the buildings are done generally. I myself was and am still dissapointed. Why not let us connect cages and let the Gyrospheres and other likewise attractions mouve trough gates and let them add to it aswell so that we don't have to use that "thing" or at least make it something i dunnow i don't even know why am saying it maybe bc it just kinda add smth to the park but actually doesn't add anything wich just adds up to how dissapointed i am with the buildings? Maybe the game is just much more Casual than i would like it to be.
Don't get me wrong i still like the game i have around 200 hrs in it i think? but at this point i have absolutly Zero Reason to play it ever again nor to even buy a JWE 2 if i see its made the same way tbh.
For me it feel like you guys spent 95% time on the dinos then realized oh people might don't just wanna watch them and "patched" "gameplay" on top. This may sound harsh but it is how it feels for me. I'm not saying its bad overall i would still consider this a alright game not great or smth but its alright. It just hurts to see how much of an amazing game this could be. but then again the details from this game, in a game like i would have in my mind i don't know if it even could run on anthing like a console... but maybe thats a small error you guys made? I remember when this game launched xD god i couldn't even thinking of playing it with mouse and keyboard ( wich now i could, props for improoving this so much i wasn't expecting this ngl).
About the campaing again... you know the way how you guys done it i dunnow i could imagine it like this much more in a First person game like how it is like this. I dunnow feels just not right.
All this aside i love some of the details, like when i drive in the route i set up and they explain the dinos and i can join in the ride is smth really amazing.
And please.. what are these small islands? i'm sory but honestly and the terrain sculting options just made it worse xD god u know ngl it wasn't all to bad but bigger circles or some options of whiping an island would've saved me a lot of nerves (even ground in the middle to automatically gain the most space :S smth i would've killed for)? what are these xD? i'm loosing myself here a bit theres so much things wich could've been done but i think i'm dreaming of another game... well maybe one day we'll see smth like this who knows my hope will never die.
With this i conclude this may a bit confusing statement or feedback? hm.. Well if anyone has any Questions i will do my best to explain everything as good as i can in this foreing language called english.
Greetings Ice
