Diurnal and Nocturnal dinosaurs.

[Ripper123]

As the title says, the idea of diurnal and nocturnal dinosaurs look pretty simple, but, it would have an very cool mechanic.
Per ex: An pack of Troodon (nocturnal dinos), after being well hydrated and full, would go to an forestry area to sleep, that simulates the "hide to sleep" part of nocturnal animals.
Now, All small dinosaurs would search forestry to sleep, BUT, large dinosaurs, specifically herbivores, are different...
They would sleep in grassland, but per ex, an Olorotitan herd, the whole herd would go to sleep, and at least 2 Olorotitans would stay awake to survey for predators, if an predator is sptted, they would emit an call, to alert the whole herd of the danger, waking up all the herd, and proceed to run from the prdator.
Ex of Nocturnal dinos:
Indoraptor
Troodon
Dilophosaurus

Ex of diurnal dinos:
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Indominus Rex
Olorotitan

 

[Nicole]

Sleep is an aspect of animal behaviour not fully addressed in the game's current state. Dinosaurs sleep for a couple of minutes at a time at most, meaning it is very rare to see them sleeping, especially in herds. I would love to be able to watch my hadrosaurs napping together - a much-needed moment of respite from the chaos resulting from my own incompetence in management simulation games. Unfortunately, it seems that sleep is a very random and minor feature, so this is not possible. I like your idea of herds sleeping under the watch of one or two wakeful sentinels, and waking together at the sign of danger to run as a herd. I am a big fan of these suggestions!

 

[BJD1988]

Cool suggestions idd. For me it would at to the realism and bolster the feeling that the JWE dinosaurs act like living creatures. I'd love to see an option where some dinosaur species would sleep during most of the night in the day/night cycle. And then idd maybe some would sleep a part of the day and be more awake at night.