Hey guys,
I hope this is the right place (search function wasn't really helpful I guess it takes skill to use it) for my feedback to the game, as a self- proclaimed " extremely casual player". I tend to play games like this (Planet zoo, planet coaster, sims...) very slowly, and very casually. Approximately i play jwe an hour or two per week. At some times i draw comparisons to planet zoo, please don't get angry about this - i know it's a seperate franchise, but i play them the same way. For me, this is just " zoo with giant naked chickens".
I know that I am probably not the main target audience. But hey, I paid, so I get to write feedback.
Here are some improvements I would like to see (or maybe they are in the game and i didn't find them. In this case, visibility needs to be improved).
1. I like your "sandbox", really. But i would love to have a "real" sandbox mode as well. In the hour i play this game in a week, i enjoy building one nice habitiat and watch the animals I put in. This is also how I play planet zoo, mostly. The "sandbox" you have currently is great for people who want to collect, and i will probably unlock some things over the christmas holidays- but really, I do not care for challenges. I just want to look at my park and think :"yep, thats a nice habitat. Gonna place some restaurants next week."
2. more control over plant placement. I really enjoy micromanaging the view my visitors get on the dinosaurs, so the current placement is a bit frustrating. And yes, i will rotate and place 600 trees by hand and have a great time while doing it, thanks. (Next game suggestion "Planet plant placing")
3. Too much forest. Forest here, forest there. Everything wants a forest. it's terrible, because you cant see these animals in their habitats. Maybe there could be an "very easy" mode in challenges, where the dinosaurs are not treehuggers? Or at least, a bit less?
4. Customizable viewing galleries + enclosure themes+more scenery. This ties into "I enjoy looking at my dinosaurs in their habitat". This game is all muddy and greyish. But jurassic park is about being extreme- allow me to desing my viewing gallery with gulpee slush advertisements, and allow me to make my aviary slushee purple. I want to be able to invite family guests to visit the "brontosaurus kindergarden" thats in bright colors and full of giant stuffend animals and wooden blocks. My adventure guests would love my dark, foggy "Terror the T-Rex" habitat complete with giant Skeletons.
This could be completely optional!
5. Mascots+ franchises. Where is gulpee slush? ANd come on, let me choose a mascot that wanders through the zoo!
6. Something positive for a change: I like the scientists mechanic. very fun.
7. Make trees see through when i am following a dinosaur. Maybe this is just me, but whenever i am following a dinosaur and they pass a tree, the camera turns and i am on top of the tree. Please make that different or explain to me where i can change that in the menu.
8.make dinosaurs selectable when i can't see them. Maybe this is a feature intended to give the player the authentic jurassic park feeling. But i find myself sarching for dinosaurs in their enclosure way to often.
9. The nerds will laugh at me now ( and rightfully so) but when I check which dinosaurs a dinosaur likes and dislikes, I don't understand all the categories. Is there a list somewhere? Could you integrate that in the game, if not? I can guess what a sauropod is, but with others I am just not sure. It would be great to get that information without tabbing out of the game.
10. Tying into "more scenery": can we have playgrounds for the family guests? and maybe other stuff for the other ones? just some fancy dinosaur themed thingys, that would be expected in a park? It would be so cute.
best wishes,
sleepysloth
I hope this is the right place (search function wasn't really helpful I guess it takes skill to use it) for my feedback to the game, as a self- proclaimed " extremely casual player". I tend to play games like this (Planet zoo, planet coaster, sims...) very slowly, and very casually. Approximately i play jwe an hour or two per week. At some times i draw comparisons to planet zoo, please don't get angry about this - i know it's a seperate franchise, but i play them the same way. For me, this is just " zoo with giant naked chickens".
I know that I am probably not the main target audience. But hey, I paid, so I get to write feedback.
Here are some improvements I would like to see (or maybe they are in the game and i didn't find them. In this case, visibility needs to be improved).
1. I like your "sandbox", really. But i would love to have a "real" sandbox mode as well. In the hour i play this game in a week, i enjoy building one nice habitiat and watch the animals I put in. This is also how I play planet zoo, mostly. The "sandbox" you have currently is great for people who want to collect, and i will probably unlock some things over the christmas holidays- but really, I do not care for challenges. I just want to look at my park and think :"yep, thats a nice habitat. Gonna place some restaurants next week."
2. more control over plant placement. I really enjoy micromanaging the view my visitors get on the dinosaurs, so the current placement is a bit frustrating. And yes, i will rotate and place 600 trees by hand and have a great time while doing it, thanks. (Next game suggestion "Planet plant placing")
3. Too much forest. Forest here, forest there. Everything wants a forest. it's terrible, because you cant see these animals in their habitats. Maybe there could be an "very easy" mode in challenges, where the dinosaurs are not treehuggers? Or at least, a bit less?
4. Customizable viewing galleries + enclosure themes+more scenery. This ties into "I enjoy looking at my dinosaurs in their habitat". This game is all muddy and greyish. But jurassic park is about being extreme- allow me to desing my viewing gallery with gulpee slush advertisements, and allow me to make my aviary slushee purple. I want to be able to invite family guests to visit the "brontosaurus kindergarden" thats in bright colors and full of giant stuffend animals and wooden blocks. My adventure guests would love my dark, foggy "Terror the T-Rex" habitat complete with giant Skeletons.
This could be completely optional!
5. Mascots+ franchises. Where is gulpee slush? ANd come on, let me choose a mascot that wanders through the zoo!
6. Something positive for a change: I like the scientists mechanic. very fun.
7. Make trees see through when i am following a dinosaur. Maybe this is just me, but whenever i am following a dinosaur and they pass a tree, the camera turns and i am on top of the tree. Please make that different or explain to me where i can change that in the menu.
8.make dinosaurs selectable when i can't see them. Maybe this is a feature intended to give the player the authentic jurassic park feeling. But i find myself sarching for dinosaurs in their enclosure way to often.
9. The nerds will laugh at me now ( and rightfully so) but when I check which dinosaurs a dinosaur likes and dislikes, I don't understand all the categories. Is there a list somewhere? Could you integrate that in the game, if not? I can guess what a sauropod is, but with others I am just not sure. It would be great to get that information without tabbing out of the game.
10. Tying into "more scenery": can we have playgrounds for the family guests? and maybe other stuff for the other ones? just some fancy dinosaur themed thingys, that would be expected in a park? It would be so cute.
best wishes,
sleepysloth
I'll comment on some of the questions you had as well: