Dinosaurs A More Interesting Jurassic Expansion Pack Suggestion

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Everyone seems to be suggesting Frontier just put more Sauropods or more Stegosaurids in the Jurassic pack. I disagree - let's have something a bit different.

1: Dryosaurus
This one I agree with, and is the obviious go-to for a fast, small dinosaur to add life to Jurassic Exhibits. Of course, you absolutely have to go with the green JPOG pattern, it fits so well!
Special Feature: Can cancel hunts from medium and large carnivores. So when a Ceratosaurus walks up to a Dryosaurus and starts the biting animation, the Dryosaurus could run away instead of being eaten.

2: Scelidosaurus
This is a very unique dinosaur - it's armoured and spiky like a Nodosaurus, but it's bipdal.
Special Feature: First of all, this could be the only small bipedal herbivore that can defend itself against predators, seeing as it's armoured. Second, make it social. I NEVER use Nodosaurids/Ankylosaurids because the absolute most I can make their population limit is 8 - they're completely pointless in any remotely interesting exhibit. Making the Scelidosaurus very social would make it stand out amongst armoured herbivores.

3: Monolophosaurus
Finding a unique-looking Jurassic carnivore was harder than it seemed. We need more small carnivores, but a lot of Jurassic carnivores either look too similar to an Allosaurus, or (like the Proceratosauridae) are too small to realistically be added to JWE. This dinosaur could be heavily built like a small Allosaurus, but be a more social dinosaur. Colourful crests are a must - it would play into the social aspect. I was initially going to go with an Ornitholestes before I realised it's a mere 91 cm tall. Woops.
Special Feature: None really, except for the colourful crest. It could be the Edmontosaurus of carnivores!

As a special request - we don't have any small Jurassic dinosaurs yet. I'd be over the moon if we could get 4 dinosaurs in this pack so we can have both a Dryosaurus and an Othnelia - Same family, two species for slight model variation. Like how we have 3 Ornithomimids!
 
Woops, my bad - the part that says "the absolute most I can make their population limit is 8" was meant to be a temporary thing until I check how high the social gene can push that, then I forgot to replace it. It's 13!
 
Nice suggestions, as teh dryo was in genesis and generally is a very nice little fella to add variety to small herbivores which we only currently have ornithomimids and pachycephalosaurids from, i approve. The rest also sound interesting, particularly the little armoured guy, would love to see that fella in the game. Diverse exhibits are always the best!
 
I think that Cryolophosaurus would make a really good carnivore to add.
It is medium/smalish sized (probably same as Metriacanthosaurus), it has a distinctinve crest, its a Jurssic Period carnivore, It belongs to a completly new digsite (Antarctica) and its unique..
And is also kinda soft cannon dinosaur, personally i would love to see it implemented in the game.
 
A solid list for the Jurassic Pack, but personally I would exchange Monolophosaurus for Proceratosaurus.

I'd love to see it personally, but I mentioned it in the original post - Proceratosaurus is about half the height of your average human, smaller than a JWE Troodon even. It's unlikely they'd add something that small to the game. I looked through a bunch of Proceratosauridae when writing the post (as mentioned) but they're all very small dinosaurs.
 
I think that Cryolophosaurus would make a really good carnivore to add.
It is medium/smalish sized (probably same as Metriacanthosaurus), it has a distinctinve crest, its a Jurssic Period carnivore, It belongs to a completly new digsite (Antarctica) and its unique..
And is also kinda soft cannon dinosaur, personally i would love to see it implemented in the game.

Totally forgot about the Cryolophosaurus! It would be beautiful in the game, and the points about the crest would work with it, too.
 
I'd love to see it personally, but I mentioned it in the original post - Proceratosaurus is about half the height of your average human, smaller than a JWE Troodon even. It's unlikely they'd add something that small to the game. I looked through a bunch of Proceratosauridae when writing the post (as mentioned) but they're all very small dinosaurs.

But still, it probably wouldn’t to have it at least as an honourable mention. And from comparing sizes of both Troodon and Proceratosaurus from Prehistoric Wildlife, the latter appears to be slightly larger than the former and provides a reasonable size for the Jurassic carnivore if it were to be added to JWE:

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But still, it probably wouldn’t to have it at least as an honourable mention. And from comparing sizes of both Troodon and Proceratosaurus from Prehistoric Wildlife, the latter appears to be slightly larger than the former and provides a reasonable size for the Jurassic carnivore if it were to be added to JWE:

It's larger IRL, yes, but it's smaller (or at least appears to be) than the in-game Troodon, which was likely based on Jurassic Park: The Game or a description in the novel. Either way, I'd take a Proceratosaurus if it's added, I'd take a Monolophosaurus if they choose that instead. Or the Cryolophosaurus someone else suggested. All of them would be beautiful, I don't mind which they choose.
 
I'm not sure if that's has been debunked or it's still a thing, but a few years ago I saw a documentary where they talked about how the Troodons found at Alaska seems to be bigger than usual, since they had no competitors.
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Maybe in the game they use that size (which seems perfect for the Proceratosaurus too)
 
All great suggestions, especially Scelidosaurus and its mechanic. Ankylosaurs are some of my favorite dinosaurs and it sucks that there all so picky.
 
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