Dinosaurs Shelters and storm behaviour

spruce56

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Dinosaur shelters: placeable structures that dinosaurs can take refuge in during storms. While in a shelter, Comfort drops more slowly than if the dinosaur is in the open. Different dinosaurs need different sized shelters. The shelter has a small radius like substations - dinosaurs within that radius will attempt to use the shelter.

Dinosaur behaviour: during storms, dinosaurs seek shelter - both in structures, and in dense forest.

Though perhaps having dinosaurs take shelter would make it harder to take awesome stormy dino pictures. What do you think?
 

gabeluna27

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The shelter idea could possibly work out well, except for the forest idea because it would make the game less fair than it is, since all dinosaurs in-game have a forest requirement. It's just a matter of how to introduce the shelter structure feature.

I think, if shelter structures were to be a thing, they can be added in some kind of paid DLC just so these features are not only optional, but so that it would make them more special and rewarding than they would be if they were just added in a free update. Maybe in a structure DLC for a change, or another character's and expanded story DLC like the ones made for Dr. Wu and Claire? Design wise, I think they would be like a metal style to fit the Jurassic World aesthetic, perhaps maybe also a couple of rock style caves since placeable rocks will be a thing for Update 1.8. The shelter types would also be for certain types of dinosaurs to make the shelters feel more diverse by usage terms.

Herbivores probably wouldn't really need this feature since they are less aggressive than carnivores when storms hit (although I currently don't know how more aggressive you can make any of them with comfort genes). The carnivores by default need to be more secured when storms happen, since their red zones in their comfort meters are incredibly higher than typical herbivores, so I see shelters, if they were to become a thing, being more useful for them than plant-eaters.
 
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spruce56

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Musing on types of shelter:
  • Stone/cave
  • Wooden/thatched/'tropical'
  • Metal/concrete
  • Metal overhangs that clip on to fences
  • Giant hollow log (similar to the T-Rex paddock in Jurassic World)
  • Hollow dinosaur sculpture - bright, childish, like some playground structures
 
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