Any Tipp&Tricks?: Southeast USA Challange in Hard Difficulty

KingPhantom

KingPhantom
I managed to to all the other challanges in "hard". Ones better than others. But I am stuck on the last one now. I am not able to get over 4 stars. It doesn't matter how I play it (I made a save and went from there in different directions). I loose to the 8h limitation all the time.

Are there any Tipps & Tricks? I tried to find some playtrought but all start with other conditions. All of them have 5-6 scientists and fire 2-3 of them. I start with 2 and they never got 4 logistics together. So for the first researches I have to hire another scientist.

Later in the game the income tax kills me. Combindet with a storm (everything shuts down even with the storm-upgrade) is it a clean kill of the park.

So what do I have to focus on and where should be my main goals through this challange? I haven't even tried it on "Jurassic".
 

Aramus418

Aramus418
I got to 4 1/2 stars the responsible way and had to fudge it. By that I mean do something flagrantly unsustainable that makes 5-stars pop in the short term. ex. set up another pen and house a new species or 2 (nobody special, just little guys that can help make that diversity penalty take a hike) that puts you over the top even though you'll be hemorrhaging money non-stop until you sell them off and delete the whole thing.
 

KingPhantom

KingPhantom
i tought about that but i never haven't got the money for stuff like this. I need all the scientists (can't fire them as i need them to hold together the park) and I have alot of money-eaters with storms that shut down everything and make everything sick... I just dont understand it. I had to restart oder hard-challanges ofc but then i figured out how to play it and where to focus. Somehow I completly miss that in this challenge... I have no chance which is a bit frustrating.
 

Aramus418

Aramus418
I don't think I ended up firing everyone, but you technically only need 1 good geneticist and 1 good veterinarian to maintain the park, replace dying population and treat major injuries (unless you have Megalosaurus or something else high-tier). There was a point where I couldn't afford the million dollar tech/digs anyway so I let my best logistics guys go.
 

KingPhantom

KingPhantom
interessting. did you get all 22 species? or just below it and took the hit. how can i compensate this hit?

because of the tight money I never went for flying reptiles or the lagoon... maybe the lagoon is possible?
 

Aramus418

Aramus418
No, I didn't. I don't recall exactly how many I had (13-16), but adding pachys shrank the penalty enough to put me over between storms. If I had to do it again I would go herbivores only (except compies), cause carnivores are effectively single species per pen and their strong individual star power doesn't add up the way herbies can be happily packed in to the same space 3-4 species at a time.
 

Nioell

Nioell
Agree that herbivores are generally preferable, especially when space might be an issue. Also always make sure to recheck the amenities and their modules for max profit and don't incubate the negative trait dinos. It might also help to double check the scientists in this scenario because last time I played their salaries were still bugged. Meaning the menu gave you the wrong numbers and they were costing you 3x as much money as it said they would, so you can end up loosing way more than you think. Generally with any scientist around 15-20k go to training and add a point. Most likely their wage will skyrocket to around 60k or more and you'll know who to fire unless you truly need them and if you do at least you'll get the correct profit numbers now. I also used some attractions and the innovation center to get some more guests in and kept taking pics for additional money. And of course make sure to use the widest paths and hotels to get the visitor cap up.
 

KingPhantom

KingPhantom
thank you guys for the tipps. i started over and after 2h i am at 10mil and 3stars. i hope i can expand now to push the stars.

i will check scientists ASAP
 

KingPhantom

KingPhantom
i got it with 3 flying dinosaurs (cohabitation problems included) and a deinonychus and dilophosaurus paddock! was a little bit stressfull in the end. i did everything with herbivores until 4,1. then started to do allosaurus and majungasaurus (breeded until i had some without negativ values - so 2 of each in small paddocks).

the main thing was that i placed the backup power generators on very crowdy and important placements. whole park run with 2 small power plants with the output addon (on hard addons are allowed).

thx for the tipps here. helped me alot after i struggled very hard with this challange.

edit: with the last sprint for species i managed to get to 22 species. i think that helped also alot.

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