First, I want to say a big thumbs up to the Frontier teams for their jobs, all these new things seem incredible !! It's hard to hold back my excitement.
However, I also have a hard time restraining my disappointment on two points concerning one of the major novelty, the lagoons...
From what I have seen on the many videos released in recent days, to create an aviary we place a first round element, and we can add other parts that as we create geometric shapes. Here's a visualization below:
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We start with a simple round aviary, then with the addition of a 2nd we move to a longer shape, with the addition of a 3rd it looks like a triangle and with the addition of the 4th element it looks like to a square (note that I find it a shame that placing the 4th does not turn this square shape into an equally large round aviary, which would be closer to what we see in the movie and allow the pterosaurs to have more height to fly… Below is a quick and very ugly montage of the idea
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Back to the subject of my post. From what I understand, the creation of a lagoon works in part the same way. A round part at the base and we add other parts on the sides.
My first point, why? I can understand that an aviary has to follow a geometric shape because in its design (with a dome) too random shapes are not compatible. But the lagoon could be treated as a classic enclosure, with the placement of fences in lines or in curves. We start to place the first element, we trace the shape we want (maybe with a minimum size) and then when we reach the start section the lagoon starts to build.
With the current operation the lagoons will systematically have rather geometric shapes, either all in length, or rectangular, or triangular or in the form of trapezoids.
My second point: also, having watched several videos I noticed that we were obliged to place the elements like the feeder, the incubator, the observatories and the “shark feeding” in predefined places of the lagoon rather than being able to them place as we wish. Because of this, it is impossible to recreate what we see in the film, an arena made up of several observatories ...
I think it's such a shame to have worked the game in such a way as to give us a lot more creative freedom, both for the buildings and the decorations, to make us "pre-built" lagoons.
I hope I'm not the only one who is disappointed with the way this new addition has been handled, although I imagine Frontier has good reason for doing so...
However, I also have a hard time restraining my disappointment on two points concerning one of the major novelty, the lagoons...
From what I have seen on the many videos released in recent days, to create an aviary we place a first round element, and we can add other parts that as we create geometric shapes. Here's a visualization below:
We start with a simple round aviary, then with the addition of a 2nd we move to a longer shape, with the addition of a 3rd it looks like a triangle and with the addition of the 4th element it looks like to a square (note that I find it a shame that placing the 4th does not turn this square shape into an equally large round aviary, which would be closer to what we see in the movie and allow the pterosaurs to have more height to fly… Below is a quick and very ugly montage of the idea
).Back to the subject of my post. From what I understand, the creation of a lagoon works in part the same way. A round part at the base and we add other parts on the sides.
My first point, why? I can understand that an aviary has to follow a geometric shape because in its design (with a dome) too random shapes are not compatible. But the lagoon could be treated as a classic enclosure, with the placement of fences in lines or in curves. We start to place the first element, we trace the shape we want (maybe with a minimum size) and then when we reach the start section the lagoon starts to build.
With the current operation the lagoons will systematically have rather geometric shapes, either all in length, or rectangular, or triangular or in the form of trapezoids.
My second point: also, having watched several videos I noticed that we were obliged to place the elements like the feeder, the incubator, the observatories and the “shark feeding” in predefined places of the lagoon rather than being able to them place as we wish. Because of this, it is impossible to recreate what we see in the film, an arena made up of several observatories ...
I think it's such a shame to have worked the game in such a way as to give us a lot more creative freedom, both for the buildings and the decorations, to make us "pre-built" lagoons.
I hope I'm not the only one who is disappointed with the way this new addition has been handled, although I imagine Frontier has good reason for doing so...
