Your Feature Request / Idea
Oh boy... I don't want to come across as negative, I like the game a lot but some things... It just seems like it was targeted exclusevely to 8 year olds...
So on to the matter at hand, the game need A LOT of work Frontier it feels really incomplete although I am happy with the progress you've been making so far. Slow progress but progress nonetheless.
One VERY IMPORTANT feature you NEED to address is the Guest Death penalty. It's basically non-existent at this point. It's far too easy to make money in the game and the Guest Death penalty has 0 effect on me. I can let my carnivores go on a murdering spree whenever I feel like if for however long I please and absolutely nothing of consequence will happen because all I have to do is put them back in their enclosures and wait for mmmaaaaybe 5 minutes before everyone forgets about it and I start making half a million per minute again.
So here's the suggestion and the simplest thing you can do (I think simplest I don't know jack**** about game development)
1. The penalty should be instant. Something that a park with say 100.000 in the bank can somewhat survive. Say 5.000-10.000 per Guest Death that instantly is removed from your bank.
Better yet if you can make it a percentage of the total money the park has so that rich park owners will suffer bigger penalties.
2. Longer lasting penalty, the lawsuits should come in and stay for a longer time. I had a penalty of -300.000 I don't know how long it lasted it never felt like a problem I had over 82.000.000 in the bank. Had that lasted for a longer time it would have made an affect (slightly because again it's waaaaay to easy to make a gazillion of dollars within an hour).
I noticed that once a guest dies the penalty is around -10.000 for each guest, but that is only per minute, that's nothing it's super easy to deal with this there's absolutely no challenge and it doesn't feel like it matters when it really should. So make it an instant penalty of 10.000 per guest + 10.000 per minute for the lawsuits and that lasts for say double your star rating in minutes. So 2 minutes for a 1 star park and 10 minutes for a 5 star park.
And while we're at it, if the tornadoes could kill Dinos and Guests that'd be great.
Or just increase the lawsuits penalty. If I died in your studio I think my family would take you to court for something closer to 100.000 if not 1.000.000 not just a mere 10.000... I would expect more if you ran over my dog for crying out loud...
I know you want to cash in from the kiddies, that's fine everyone does, but make this an option for seasoned gamers that can take a punishing if the mess up. Make it a "Brutal" option something that I can turn on if I want to have a greater challenge and off if I feel like playing casual.
Anyway just some silly suggestions that came from the top of my head I'm sure there's balancing that needs to be looked at a park that's struggling and has 80.000 cash shouldn't receive a -300.000 instant penalty and -500.000 per minute for 3 minutes because something went wrong, this is still a game and should be fun... but right now... well it's kinda boring...
I hope you will look into this and figure out a way to provide us with a greater challenge. Bottom line is Guest death should be something that freaks you out, something that you try hard to avoid and when it happens it is a setback that will haunt you for a considerable amount of time.
Oh boy... I don't want to come across as negative, I like the game a lot but some things... It just seems like it was targeted exclusevely to 8 year olds...
So on to the matter at hand, the game need A LOT of work Frontier it feels really incomplete although I am happy with the progress you've been making so far. Slow progress but progress nonetheless.
One VERY IMPORTANT feature you NEED to address is the Guest Death penalty. It's basically non-existent at this point. It's far too easy to make money in the game and the Guest Death penalty has 0 effect on me. I can let my carnivores go on a murdering spree whenever I feel like if for however long I please and absolutely nothing of consequence will happen because all I have to do is put them back in their enclosures and wait for mmmaaaaybe 5 minutes before everyone forgets about it and I start making half a million per minute again.
So here's the suggestion and the simplest thing you can do (I think simplest I don't know jack**** about game development)
1. The penalty should be instant. Something that a park with say 100.000 in the bank can somewhat survive. Say 5.000-10.000 per Guest Death that instantly is removed from your bank.
Better yet if you can make it a percentage of the total money the park has so that rich park owners will suffer bigger penalties.
2. Longer lasting penalty, the lawsuits should come in and stay for a longer time. I had a penalty of -300.000 I don't know how long it lasted it never felt like a problem I had over 82.000.000 in the bank. Had that lasted for a longer time it would have made an affect (slightly because again it's waaaaay to easy to make a gazillion of dollars within an hour).
I noticed that once a guest dies the penalty is around -10.000 for each guest, but that is only per minute, that's nothing it's super easy to deal with this there's absolutely no challenge and it doesn't feel like it matters when it really should. So make it an instant penalty of 10.000 per guest + 10.000 per minute for the lawsuits and that lasts for say double your star rating in minutes. So 2 minutes for a 1 star park and 10 minutes for a 5 star park.
And while we're at it, if the tornadoes could kill Dinos and Guests that'd be great.
Or just increase the lawsuits penalty. If I died in your studio I think my family would take you to court for something closer to 100.000 if not 1.000.000 not just a mere 10.000... I would expect more if you ran over my dog for crying out loud...
I know you want to cash in from the kiddies, that's fine everyone does, but make this an option for seasoned gamers that can take a punishing if the mess up. Make it a "Brutal" option something that I can turn on if I want to have a greater challenge and off if I feel like playing casual.
Anyway just some silly suggestions that came from the top of my head I'm sure there's balancing that needs to be looked at a park that's struggling and has 80.000 cash shouldn't receive a -300.000 instant penalty and -500.000 per minute for 3 minutes because something went wrong, this is still a game and should be fun... but right now... well it's kinda boring...
I hope you will look into this and figure out a way to provide us with a greater challenge. Bottom line is Guest death should be something that freaks you out, something that you try hard to avoid and when it happens it is a setback that will haunt you for a considerable amount of time.
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