Fun Challenge: Creating a Novel Nublar

Flint2025

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The game should allow for male and femal genders. Then 2 Rexes or 2 Spinos would make sense. This is a game, we shouldnt have the movies give us limits on a game. And lets be real, they knew in 93 the dinos could change their sex in captivity and breed, so what would be the point in even engineering them all to be female still? Same with lycene, it doesnt work so they wouldnt still be doing that either. If it was a real park, guests would want to see buck male triceratops, alpha male raptors, the scientists themselves would want to see if a male is smaller or larger then a female Rex. There would be both sexes in a real park. No one goes to a zoo only to see a female lion, they want to see a male with it's mane.
 
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RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
Gdain said:
If you turn off dino breakouts in the settings I don’t think there should be a problem.
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I shouldn't have to play God while playing God to have the park of my dreams. It would be nicer if there was a mechanic that increased the tolerance levels of Population and Social if the enclosure was increased in size.

Not having breakouts disabled makes it feel more like a challenge.
The risk is part of the fun.
 

Flint2025

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Would be cool if we could edit dinosaur species stats. We think sucho should require 50% water in his enclosure we can move his requirements bar.. We want to allow for a pack of Rexes we can increase their social tolerance bar. That would be a great touch to the game.

They could have also increased the population tolerance for each dinosaur everytime a new island was unlocked since they started out so small and sort of got bigger with Sorna.
 

RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
Flint2025 said:
Would be cool if we could edit dinosaur species stats. We think sucho should require 50% water in his enclosure we can move his requirements bar.. We want to allow for a pack of Rexes we can increase their social tolerance bar. That would be a great touch to the game.

They could have also increased the population tolerance for each dinosaur everytime a new island was unlocked since they started out so small and sort of got bigger with Sorna.
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Yeah. I argued that point with QA.

Also, here's what I have so far for my Novel Nublar's layout:
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Initially, I followed the order of the movie's park ride (Dilophosaurus, Hadrosaurs, T.Rex, etc) but changed it towards the end to accommodate the dinos that the book had that the movie didn't.
I'm also considering moving the Camarasaur/Apatosaur into a paddock connected to the Edmontosaur paddock in order to make a fake Jungle River Ride area.

The other random landmarks are just references that I felt like including. The Hilton being more of a reference to the hotel in Jurassic World and Les Gigantes being the unfinished 3-star restaurant from the book's park drive transcript.
 

RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
Made an update to the list by making anything in the "-Mimus" family count as placeholders for the Othniella since they're physically similar, both stampede, and both hold a 1-star rating (citing the Dryosaurus stats in Genesis since they were lumped together as being similar).

In the novel, they the Othniella and Dryosaurs were placed in the Hypsilophodont Highlands and the Long Neck enclosure I mentioned in the previous post better fits the description of that particular enclosure.

I made a new enclosure for the Apatosaurs,Camarasaurs, and Maiasaura (Sauropod Swamp) that connects to the Edmontosaur enclosure (where I will put the other half dozen Maisaura).

Here's another screenshot of my progress so far:
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RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
The infrastructure is finished and I've started deploying the dinos.
I started with the Maiasaurs and the Edmontos (the placeholders for the Hadrosaurs) and I managed to put 10 Maias and 6 Edmontos into Sauropod Swamp A. I know I can fit more into that particular enclosure but, I'm going to put the rest into the Sauropod Swamp B with the majority of the long necks.

Speaking of long necks, Sauropod Swamp B has 7 Apatosaurs and 7 Camarasaurs. I'm just 3 of either long necks short of achieving the novels total of 17 Camarasaurs/Apatosaurs (long necks).
I'm going to put the final 3 long necks into Sauropod Swamp A in order to avoid having to turn off Dinosaur Escapes because I want to play it vanilla.

I would share an image of it but, my connection is awful right now so I can't upload anything.
 

Flint2025

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Im super excited for this challenge. I've been waiting hoping a new update was going to come out this weekend before i started but im gonna start building tonight or tomorrow. I spent a few minutes at work today drawing up a map of where i was going to place everything.

They have maps of the movie island and the book island online and im going to base my park on that.

How do you post pics and videos from your phone on here? I cant figure it out. My only option is cliptray and idk how to move pics to my clip tray.
 

RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
Flint2025 said:
Im super excited for this challenge. I've been waiting hoping a new update was going to come out this weekend before i started but im gonna start building tonight or tomorrow. I spent a few minutes at work today drawing up a map of where i was going to place everything.

They have maps of the movie island and the book island online and im going to base my park on that.

How do you post pics and videos from your phone on here? I cant figure it out. My only option is cliptray and idk how to move pics to my clip tray.
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I'm not sure. What platform are you playing on?

Also, use caution with the 21 Maiasaurs. Having 40+ dinos within close proximity to each other (plus their dense environment) will cause lag.
I might cut off the number of Maiasaurs in my park at 15 for the sake of optimization lol

There are my final tallies for the Sauropod Swamps (aka where the Jungle River Ride is located) . . .
Sauropod Swamp A
Apatosaurs: 4
Maiasaurs: 10
Edmontosaurs: 6

Sauropod Swamp B
Apatosaurs: 6
Camarasaurs: 7
Maiasaurs: 5
Edmontosaurs: 5
 
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Flint2025

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Im on xbox. I havent experienced any lag from the game yet. But i also havent put 40 dinos in a small enclosure yet either

I might not put any maisisaurs in there but we'll see. I might take some liberties from the challenge. Right now my plan is:

Sauropod swamp: Apats and Diplodicus

Dilophasaurus: 5

T-Rex- 1

Trikes and Styracos

Paras (might but some maias in there)

Brachiasaurus

Baryonx

Velociraptors- 3. (I might put them outside of the tour like in the movie)

Gallimimus Valley- whole bunch

Since no herrarosaurus im thinking of substituing Carnotaurus

Then maybe Stego

I think im gonna do a Novel based one and movie based one as far as how the fences are shaped and what i have in the park. I have high expectations for myself that i hope i can live up to lol.
 

RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
Flint2025 said:
Im on xbox. I havent experienced any lag from the game yet. But i also havent put 40 dinos in a small enclosure yet either

I might not put any maisisaurs in there but we'll see. I might take some liberties from the challenge. Right now my plan is:

Sauropod swamp: Apats and Diplodicus

Dilophasaurus: 5

T-Rex- 1

Trikes and Styracos

Paras (might but some maias in there)

Brachiasaurus

Baryonx

Velociraptors- 3. (I might put them outside of the tour like in the movie)

Gallimimus Valley- whole bunch

Since no herrarosaurus im thinking of substituing Carnotaurus

Then maybe Stego

I think im gonna do a Novel based one and movie based one as far as how the fences are shaped and what i have in the park. I have high expectations for myself that i hope i can live up to lol.
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This challenge is more specifically based on the novel version. I did make a post for the Phase 1.5 of the movie version that never saw fruition.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Challenge-2-Creating-Film-Nublar-(JP-Phase-1)

Also, I did it. I made the novel park (to the extent that the game would let me without tampering with the sandbox settings).

Carnivore Country 1
Dilophosaurs: 7

Carnivore Country 2
T.Rex: 1 (because the devs claim that 1 T.Rex is enough even though they can live in groups of at least 3 as seen in Lost World)

Raptor Pen
Deinonychus/Raptors: 8

Sauropod Swamp A
Apatosaurs: 4
Maiasaurs: 10
Edmontosaurs: 6

Sauropos Swamp B
Apatosaurs: 6
Camarasaurs: 7
Maiasaurs: 5
Edmontosaurs: 5

Stegosaur South
Stegosaurus: 6

Triceratops Territory A
Triceratops: 4
Styracosaurus: 4
Huayangosaurs: 4


Triceratops Territory B
Triceratops: 4
Styracosaurus: 4
Huayangosaurs: 4

Hypsilophodont Highlands
Gallimimus: 13 (could have put more but the lag was getting crazy)

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RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
Update
Experiencing a weird anomaly. I think the population level of Apatosaurs and Camarasaurs increased by one or their tolerance level mysteriously decreased by 1 because all their comfort levels are plummeting.
For a bit of context, I didn't open my park until all the paddocks were populated.
Maybe the presence of the gyrosphere counts as 1 population?
 

Flint2025

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Looks good man! I wish i could upload pictures of what ive made so far. I have my park infrastructure completed. Now all i have to do is build the paddocks. I honestly need more room... I hope they give us a 2nd nublar one day that is twice its current size.

Thats strange about the population... I wouldnt think a gyro would affect it.
 

Flint2025

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So i completed my park. I think it looks pretty good. I went with 2 gyrosphere tours around the paddocks. There are no viewing platforms of any kind or pathways around the paddocks. I will probably make an alternate where there are pathways and no gyros so i can drive around with a jeep.

Paddocks:

Gallimimus Valley/Hypsilophodont Higlands - 18 Galis

Sauropod Swamp- Apats-4; Diplodicus-3; Para's-5; Mai's-4; Edmont's- 4; Brachi's-1

Carnivore Country 1- Deinonychus-3

Carnivore Country2- Dilophosaurus-7

Carnivore Country 3- T-Rex-1

Stego South- Stego's- 7

Triceratops Country- Trikes-8; Styraco's-6

Herbivore Paddock- Anky's- 2

Not on tour Raptor Pen- Velociraptors- 3

My biggest challenges were the Brachiasaurus and Deinonychus. I made the Brachi it's own paddock to be alone but it was never satisfied with the grassland and forest ratio, even after enlarging the enclosure. Finally i sold a Mai to keep the population from going too high and added him to sauropod swamp. The Deinonychus was weird... I guess no more than 3 can be happy in the paddock i made. Or it just depends on each dinosaur. Bred 3, 2 were happy 1 tried breaking out. Bred 3 more, 1 was happy and 2 were trying to break out. Ended up keeping the happy 3 and selling the unhappy 3.

Now my velociraptors wont ever be happy with the size of their paddock being so small.... Maybe if i deleted all the trees but then it wouldnt look right. Turned escapes off to keep them in there for now. Gonna try to get some pics and see if i can upload them onto my computer so i can post them.
 

RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2

EvilMark

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junglistphil said:
I wish this wasn't so. I really want to be able to have at least 2 Tyrannosaurs in the same paddock. [sad] I've only ever had one so far as I've only just got onto Tacano.
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To be fair, in the novel Rexy barely tolerated the juvenile's presence, I think it's safe to assume they might have eventually had a lethal encounter if she had been allowed to reach adulthood.
 

RadicalEdward2

RadicalEdward2
EvilMark said:
To be fair, in the novel Rexy barely tolerated the juvenile's presence, I think it's safe to assume they might have eventually had a lethal encounter if she had been allowed to reach adulthood.
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True but still. This is a video game where we should be allowed to have at least two Rexes. Not every Rex is Rexy ;)
Update: Almost every large carnivore says "solitary" but, it can tolerate living with a second of its kind but, not the T.Rex...
 
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Flint2025

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Finally was able to upload some captures added together to give an overview of the park. This one is more of a movie design, i like it better then the novel version i made. But now that i can finally upload i will upload the novel park as well.

https://youtu.be/LvHZ1GkLBto

[video=youtube_share;LvHZ1GkLBto]https://youtu.be/LvHZ1GkLBto[/video]

Also for the devs in the last few minutes of the vid when i go to show my Stego named Spike another Stego glitches with his tail caught in the fence, but it corrects itself as soon as i call a chopper to tranq it. It also shows the blurring/warping glitch on the 2 stegos, its something that seems to happen when there are several dinos close to each other.

And yes btw i have a Little Foot, Ducky, Sarah, and Spike in my park. Devs get working on my Peatree please.
 
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