Lack of Males - Workaround

[Kevinosaurus]

I was thinking about this the other day.

Males are not gonna be in the game and I would bet that chances for a male DLC are also quite slim, albeit it's not impossible. Though there are still many DLCs I would consider more important, like aquatic/flying dinos, JP93 DLC etc.

Anyway, so as we all know we can give our dinosaurs different skin colors. So what could be done is just use a different skin color to distinguish females from ''pseudo males''. I mean no one's gonna go out into the park and pull up the dinosaurs' skirts to verify, right?

 

[Factabulous]

Why do you need a 'workaround'?

 

[Kevinosaurus]

Why do you need a 'workaround'?

They confirmed that the game will only have females and that there won't be any males. Hence what I suggested is a ''workaround''. I for one would love to have males and females like in TLW.

 

[Lora Craft69]

Life... uh, finds a way.

[video=youtube;dMjQ3hA9mEA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjQ3hA9mEA[/video]

 

[Dinoken]

Agreed - It would be cool to males and females - even if they are infertile.

 

[Bigmiche]

You're asking more exactly for a difference in size between wholesale dinosaurs, right?

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Vous demandez plus exactement une différence de taille entre dinosaure en gros, non ?

 

[Andrew2018]

If you want to pretend some are Male go ahead.

 

[gingeyphillips]

I like the idea of this, maybe the JP3 raptor skins for example; the males being the dark ones with red eyes and the females being a more beige colour, or Buck and Doe skins for the T-Rexes from the Lost World. In fact there's a lot of potential skins I could think of to make dinosaurs look unique enough to at least make it look like they're male like brighter Hadrosaur head crests. Would be cool to see!

 

[Kevinosaurus]

You're asking more exactly for a difference in size between wholesale dinosaurs, right?

Not so much size difference because that's not possible without them actually making a proper male DLC but skin color only, because that's what's in the game.

I like the idea of this, maybe the JP3 raptor skins for example; the males being the dark ones with red eyes and the females being a more beige colour, or Buck and Doe skins for the T-Rexes from the Lost World. In fact there's a lot of potential skins I could think of to make dinosaurs look unique enough to at least make it look like they're male like brighter Hadrosaur head crests. Would be cool to see!

Buck and Doe were the first examples I was thinking about as well. Make one T. Rex green and the other one more brownish. TLW and JP3 raptors are another great example, yeah. I always thought that the Brachiosaurus seen in JP3 is also a male because the colors looked more flashy than in JP (Red colored nose etc.)

 

[gingeyphillips]

Buck and Doe were the first examples I was thinking about as well. Make one T. Rex green and the other one more brownish. TLW and JP3 raptors are another great example, yeah. I always thought that the Brachiosaurus seen in JP3 is also a male because the colors looked more flashy than in JP (Red colored nose etc.)

If I recall correctly a lot of the Brachiosaurs in that film did have red head crests and different head shapes (I think this is to do with Masrani doing illegal experiments with gene splicing hence why the raptors had a redesign too or something) but when you see the Brachiosaurs up close there's one that clearly has a much more vivid colouration than the others, which once again would support the idea that it's the alpha male mentioned in the beginning on the plane.

I also just remembered that there's a video somewhere showing a much darker blue head colouration for the Edmontosaurus with little other differences, so that's a good example of there being this idea already being in the game!

 

[Flash525]

I wasn't aware (before today) that the park was female-exclusive (I daren't claim sexism here). :x

Still though, why the restriction? If they don't want Dinos breeding, that's one thing, but would it really harm the gameplay experience to have male & female dinos? Just don't enable reproduction? Heck, why even assign a gender to these specific dinos if reproduction is off the table? Shame our adults can't get down and dirty to produce their own off-spring.

 

[Kevinosaurus]

I think that argument takes things a bit too far. I mean, have you seen the movies? It's canon that the dinosaurs are female only (on Nublar anyway). So in that sense having only females is actually correct as per the established canon. I'm not faulting Frontier for that at all. I just think it would be nice to have some variety, that's all.

 

[Dinoken]

Well - in the movies they have already explained why we see male and females dinosaurs on Isla Sorna, and only female dinosaurs on isla Nublar.

Remember - Dr. Malcolm's statement in JP about "Life finds a Way". And later on how Dr. Grant points out that certain frogs can change their gender in single sex environments. And the Dinosaurs of JP have some amphibian DNA in them. This suggests that the some of Dinosaurs on site B (Isla Sorna) changed their genders in order to be able to breed, after they were hatched out. Not that they were created as male and female.

 

[Lora Craft69]

Well - in the movies they have already explained why we see male and females dinosaurs on Isla Sorna, and only female dinosaurs on isla Nublar.

Remember - Dr. Malcolm's statement in JP about "Life finds a Way". And later on how Dr. Grant points out that certain frogs can change their gender in single sex environments. And the Dinosaurs of JP have some amphibian DNA in them. This suggests that the some of Dinosaurs on site B (Isla Sorna) changed their genders in order to be able to breed, after they were hatched out. Not that they were created as male and female.

I like to add, that even on Nublar in JP some dinosaurs changed sex and Dr Grant found hatched eggs.
But the question should be, are the dinosaurs in JW female? That we don't really know.
I assume they are, because they know by now that it was because of the added dna from the West African frog that was able to change sex in a single sex environment that the dinosaurs also changed sex.
It's therefor at least for me acceptable to conclude that all dinosaurs in JW & JWE are female.

 

[Dinoken]

Well - we know that certain dinosaurs in Jurassic World are definitely female, because they are referred to as such in the movie. Rexy the T.rex, the Indominus Rex, and the raptor pack - Blue, Charlie, Delta, & Echo are all females.

 

[impcaeaug]

I would just like Frontier to simply give us the option of cloning male or female dinosaurus,
of course the male dinosaurs will probably be castrated and made infertile. Just so that
Frontier doesn't have to make a possibly complicated dinosaur reproduction feature.

 

[Flash525]

I think that argument takes things a bit too far. I mean, have you seen the movies? It's canon that the dinosaurs are female only (on Nublar anyway). So in that sense having only females is actually correct as per the established canon. I'm not faulting Frontier for that at all. I just think it would be nice to have some variety, that's all.

There's a Rex Family in the Lost World.

 

[Kevinosaurus]

I‘m aware Sorna has (or had) males. I‘ve seen the movies countless times. I was simply referring to Nublar, aka the actual Jurassic Park/World, which has females only and for all we know this was my impression in JW as well. Since we‘re running actual parks in JWE I think the female only choice makes sense from a movie perspective as males were never part of the actual park. So in my opinion I can‘t fault Frontier for that decision.

 

[Flash525]

I‘m aware Sorna has (or had) males. I‘ve seen the movies countless times. I was simply referring to Nublar, aka the actual Jurassic Park/World, which has females only and for all we know this was my impression in JW as well. Since we‘re running actual parks in JWE I think the female only choice makes sense from a movie perspective as males were never part of the actual park. So in my opinion I can‘t fault Frontier for that decision.

But why even assign a gender in the first place? At least as far as the game is concerned?

 

[Kevinosaurus]

Apart from the fact that I'm not very versed in biology, so I don't know if that's a possibility (then again, when did the movies ever take actual science really seriously?), you could ask the same question about the movies. They started out with female only so I'm ok with them sticking with it for the game, considering it's based on the movies.