Your Feature Request / Idea
Paleo Flora
I'm getting a bit tired so i might have to continue this tomorrow, but this is one major concern of mine right now.
Since carnivores can feed off of herbivores (mostly) reliably now, it highlights how sub par it is that herbivores do not have a natural food source. So here's where Paleo Flora comes in. This is official canon in the very first JP film so you have full rights to do it, and you can explain things by saying that dinos will refuse to eat modern flora as they are unfamiliar with it and gives them digestion issues. Making Paleo Flora instead of the modern one would obviously cost much more, but it would remove the need for feeders and allow animals to actually move freely and migrate about, especially with some good herding behavior, while being able to find food naturally around them, instead of just clustering around feeders, which looks very... artificial, lets be honest.
In addition to it's cost, you would also have to replant it once in a while as it is eaten away. Most dinos can eat the ferns and shrubs, treating them as ground feeders with less charges or so, and Sauropods would munch on tree foliage, treating them as tall feeders. This can introduce it's own set of challenges but players can mix, match and choose what they want to do, and it's always better to give players more tools in a game like this, to play their way. It's far more engaging.
To do this, just make another row of Paleo Forest and Paleo Shrubs above the existing vegetation options in the Landscaping menu. It would require a bit of work in speedtree or whatever you're using and some code rejiggering, but overall i dont think it would cost too much time and effort to implement, especially considering the massive gameplay payoff.
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Paleo Flora
I'm getting a bit tired so i might have to continue this tomorrow, but this is one major concern of mine right now.
Since carnivores can feed off of herbivores (mostly) reliably now, it highlights how sub par it is that herbivores do not have a natural food source. So here's where Paleo Flora comes in. This is official canon in the very first JP film so you have full rights to do it, and you can explain things by saying that dinos will refuse to eat modern flora as they are unfamiliar with it and gives them digestion issues. Making Paleo Flora instead of the modern one would obviously cost much more, but it would remove the need for feeders and allow animals to actually move freely and migrate about, especially with some good herding behavior, while being able to find food naturally around them, instead of just clustering around feeders, which looks very... artificial, lets be honest.
In addition to it's cost, you would also have to replant it once in a while as it is eaten away. Most dinos can eat the ferns and shrubs, treating them as ground feeders with less charges or so, and Sauropods would munch on tree foliage, treating them as tall feeders. This can introduce it's own set of challenges but players can mix, match and choose what they want to do, and it's always better to give players more tools in a game like this, to play their way. It's far more engaging.
To do this, just make another row of Paleo Forest and Paleo Shrubs above the existing vegetation options in the Landscaping menu. It would require a bit of work in speedtree or whatever you're using and some code rejiggering, but overall i dont think it would cost too much time and effort to implement, especially considering the massive gameplay payoff.
Please remember to rate how much you like these ideas as the forum rules suggest, it is an important tool for the devs to know what the community wants and how much! Thank you!
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