Potential for JWE Update or JWE2

Spinoraptor18

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Let me just say I LOVE JWE to the point I have been looking into buying fossils and start up a small collection. I have learnt a lot about dinosaurs like species I never heard of and fossils I never knew existed (fern and fungi fossils for example). I loved JPOG and it was frustrating at times (twisters killing guests and dinos unless you use a cheat) and my PS2 copy was getting old and would crash on occasion. I think JPOG and JWE are great (JWE slighty more great for having more info, campaign and 3x more dinos) but both have their flaws. Part of JPOG's problem was limitations with technology for its age (around 2003 I think it was released) but it did well on visitor management (including benches and bins etc). JWE's problem is lack of visitor management (can't click on guests, no decorations like bins and no real comments from visitors) and there is so much potential to go further but I guess there are limits there too (about 67 dinos so far, there must be a number that is too many).

What I think JWE can or should do in a future update or seeing that a complete edition for the Switch is coming then features for a sequel can be....
  • Customised Island, so not 1 of the 5 islands just a new island built by the player (same as JPOG)
  • Decorations, players have been asking from the start for benches and fountains etc.
  • Amphibian dinos, sure the animations and machanics won't be difficult because they're already exist in game (4 legged, small and wetland requirement with meat/fish feeder). Maybe a 3 dino 'Amphibian Pack'
  • More pterosaurs species? Maybe a 'Pterosaur Pack'?
  • Aquatic dinos, of course I mention it like many other players have requested. Just a small number of water dinos would be fine like the Mosasaur, styxosaur, ammonite etc.
 

Thylaco

Thylaco
If you're looking into buying fossils, it does sort of depend where you live. My local shop is Naturally Wild, and it seems to be the only one of it's kind in Australia, though they do ship interstate (they're also not dedicated to fossils either, selling sea shells mostly). If you're in the US, there's probably one for most states, generally they supply museums with gift fossils. If there isn't any shops in your country, there might still be a fossil fair/show once a year or so (I've never been to one myself, but those events around the world are where my local gets his fossils from, keep in mind you do need the right paperwork to transport between countries).

While the cheapest fossil I've gotten was 4 AUD (a Victorian Graptolite), it's not unusual for me to end up spending more than 100 AUD on just 3 or 4, though it has been a few years since I bought fossils.

In terms of stuff to buy, echinoderms (starfish, urchins, crinoids, etc) are usually common, on the cheaper side & you're usually able to get them from multiple ages. Same for plant fossils. Graptolites are cheap too, but only really common from the Ordovician to Devonian.

Ammonites & Trilobites tend to be a mid-tier sort of purchase, Trilobites in particular get faked a lot though due to their popularity (most of the time it's multiple Trilobite pieces stuck together, but sometimes it is fictional pieces mixed with real).

I tend to avoid vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, etc), usually being quite expensive for what they are, but I have still splashed out on a few (I've got a tiny amphibian larva from the Permian of Germany [Branchiosaurus I think] and an Enchodus tooth in my collection for example). The exceptions tend to be individual mammal bones (usually being quite recent) and sometimes fish.

I'm not sure what you mean by Amphibian dinos, are these amphibians like Temnospondyls or are you suggesting amphibious reptiles like crocodiles? Either way, it's not exactly what we've got already, swimming is a problem. It could be like the Planet Zoo crocodiles, in that it sticks to the surface of the water, but I'm not sure how similar the water actually is.
 

Spinoraptor18

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Thanks for the reply. I'm in the UK so I got the Jurassic coast near by and found a website that sells fossils. Amphibians I mean diplocaulus and limenocelis. Yeah swimming animations will be the issue.
 
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