Your Feature Request / Idea
What if in addition to stats and ratings, the Island Management panel also had a more flavourful method of conveying the state of your park and visitor experiences?
My initial thought was: maybe you could have dynamic newspaper headlines that summarize major events in the park like "Jurassic World introduces Stegosaurus on Isla Tacano!" or "5 dead as Raptors escape enclosure at Jurassic World"... but then it was pointed out to me that newspapers are so 1993 and perhaps something more modern would be more appropriate for Jurassic World.
Which brings us to: * social media! *
What if the Management panel had a fake procedurally generated twitter-esque feed (call it Birdsite or Dinosocial or something like that) with short messages from visitors mixed with occasional official Park tweets and news, plus photos that both you and visitors have taken. #dinoselfie
And if something goes wrong there's tweets with blurry badly framed pictures of dinosaurs eating guests and people tweeting they are safe in a bunker, followed by news tweets reporting on events and followed later by official park statements suggesting the disaster was greatly exaggerated and everything is fine...
This would be an additional way to convey the state of the park and visitor satisfaction, but with some more character and personality than just raw numbers. You could set up a simple-ish procedurally generated text bot that creates guest, news and official tweets based on the overall state of the park, dinosaur population, recent major events, new attractions, etc...
(keep it 140-280 character text + occasional photos only to limit the scope)
For reference, look at Spacebase DF9, though sadly unfinished it had an interesting feature which shows a generated social media feed ("Spaceface") for individual NPCs that reflects their state of mind and general feelings about things happening around the station. It's a colourful way to add some more personality to the anonymous crowds.
Basically this except not for one specific NPC, but a single feed for the entire park + outside news.
This would also be the perfect place to use photos the player has taken with the Ranger as they can be tweeted as official park photos (side note: it would also be cool if the game kept a gallery of photos you've taken, but I'm sure that's already been suggested before).
NOTE: I think it's important that this feature be entirely optional, in the sense that you could get essentially the same information by just looking at existing statistics if you don't care about the social media feed. It would just be there as extra flavour.
What do you think?
What if in addition to stats and ratings, the Island Management panel also had a more flavourful method of conveying the state of your park and visitor experiences?
My initial thought was: maybe you could have dynamic newspaper headlines that summarize major events in the park like "Jurassic World introduces Stegosaurus on Isla Tacano!" or "5 dead as Raptors escape enclosure at Jurassic World"... but then it was pointed out to me that newspapers are so 1993 and perhaps something more modern would be more appropriate for Jurassic World.
Which brings us to: * social media! *
What if the Management panel had a fake procedurally generated twitter-esque feed (call it Birdsite or Dinosocial or something like that) with short messages from visitors mixed with occasional official Park tweets and news, plus photos that both you and visitors have taken. #dinoselfie
And if something goes wrong there's tweets with blurry badly framed pictures of dinosaurs eating guests and people tweeting they are safe in a bunker, followed by news tweets reporting on events and followed later by official park statements suggesting the disaster was greatly exaggerated and everything is fine...
This would be an additional way to convey the state of the park and visitor satisfaction, but with some more character and personality than just raw numbers. You could set up a simple-ish procedurally generated text bot that creates guest, news and official tweets based on the overall state of the park, dinosaur population, recent major events, new attractions, etc...
(keep it 140-280 character text + occasional photos only to limit the scope)
For reference, look at Spacebase DF9, though sadly unfinished it had an interesting feature which shows a generated social media feed ("Spaceface") for individual NPCs that reflects their state of mind and general feelings about things happening around the station. It's a colourful way to add some more personality to the anonymous crowds.
Basically this except not for one specific NPC, but a single feed for the entire park + outside news.
This would also be the perfect place to use photos the player has taken with the Ranger as they can be tweeted as official park photos (side note: it would also be cool if the game kept a gallery of photos you've taken, but I'm sure that's already been suggested before).
NOTE: I think it's important that this feature be entirely optional, in the sense that you could get essentially the same information by just looking at existing statistics if you don't care about the social media feed. It would just be there as extra flavour.
What do you think?
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