Your Feature Request / Idea
In lieu of adding the much coveted JP jeep tour attraction everyone is clamoring for, allowing players to raise and lower the height of the monorail tracks would be a great and simple way to add variety to our current attraction/transportation roster. For example, a player could utilize a monorail that is set at ground-level or very close to the ground as a great substitute for the jeep tour. While the main limitation is that the track would need to be continuously flat or close to flat, there is an easy fix - laying down track at ground level will automatically cut valleys or tunnels into any steep terrain the track intersects. Alternately, you could just have tight terrain constraints around laying down track just as with any other building, this would be more annoying to work around but would not require any major changes to the game physics.
The main benefit to this suggestion is that this would essentially add a whole new attraction to the game without adding entirely new assets, it would just be a tweak to a pre-existing one. The only major new asset needed would be 'ground level' and 'shortened' models of the monorail station, which I don't think would be too technically difficult. I do also understand that the monorail is as tall as it is currently in order to let dinosaurs pass underneath, but here I think we have a great opportunity for diversifying gameplay - a shorter monorail track could be used as a way to keep larger dinosaurs corralled into a certain area while letting smaller ones pass through - alternately, we could have the option to splice a fence between the pillars, so that the monorail now serves the dual purpose of transportation and Dino containment. Naturally, dinosaurs would be able to walk right over ground-level track, or there could be a glass tunnel over the track instead to keep the train safe. In short, there are plenty of specific ways this idea could be implemented, but the gist is that we could have more attraction variety while using a currently available asset.
In lieu of adding the much coveted JP jeep tour attraction everyone is clamoring for, allowing players to raise and lower the height of the monorail tracks would be a great and simple way to add variety to our current attraction/transportation roster. For example, a player could utilize a monorail that is set at ground-level or very close to the ground as a great substitute for the jeep tour. While the main limitation is that the track would need to be continuously flat or close to flat, there is an easy fix - laying down track at ground level will automatically cut valleys or tunnels into any steep terrain the track intersects. Alternately, you could just have tight terrain constraints around laying down track just as with any other building, this would be more annoying to work around but would not require any major changes to the game physics.
The main benefit to this suggestion is that this would essentially add a whole new attraction to the game without adding entirely new assets, it would just be a tweak to a pre-existing one. The only major new asset needed would be 'ground level' and 'shortened' models of the monorail station, which I don't think would be too technically difficult. I do also understand that the monorail is as tall as it is currently in order to let dinosaurs pass underneath, but here I think we have a great opportunity for diversifying gameplay - a shorter monorail track could be used as a way to keep larger dinosaurs corralled into a certain area while letting smaller ones pass through - alternately, we could have the option to splice a fence between the pillars, so that the monorail now serves the dual purpose of transportation and Dino containment. Naturally, dinosaurs would be able to walk right over ground-level track, or there could be a glass tunnel over the track instead to keep the train safe. In short, there are plenty of specific ways this idea could be implemented, but the gist is that we could have more attraction variety while using a currently available asset.
