Simple cohabitation suggestions for JWE2 (No far stretches)

Herbivores (Large and armored) currently cannot be housed with other herbivores of the same type. I personally think that herbivores should be able to live alongside other herbivores of the same type, BUT ONLY if they SHARE a formation with each other.

Examples:
Chasmosaurus and Styracosaurus
Huayangosaurus and Chungkingosaurus
Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus

For the sake of keeping most of the other armored and large herbivores away from each other, I suggest only adding the three mentioned combinations above and keeping the relations between the other herbivores as they currently are. I just need some better and more authentic herbivore cohabitation. Other than that, the game is okay.
 
I just want them to fix the cohabitation system so that theropods who like each other stop forgetting that they like each other and murder each other, and make it so the Indominus rex likes the Velociraptor back so we can actually have them together.
 
Think of it as niche competition. Other ceratopsids are going to eat the same things as the trikes while sauropods, ankylosaurids and hadrosaurs are filling different niches in the environment. They provide the comfort of safety in numbers without threatening the scarce supply of natural resources.
 
I just want them to fix the cohabitation system so that theropods who like each other stop forgetting that they like each other and murder each other, and make it so the Indominus rex likes the Velociraptor back so we can actually have them together.
Just because they like each other doesn't mean they won't fight. It just affects their cohabitation score. It'd be ridiculous for Allosaurus not to kill Metriacanthasaurus for example, like a lion living with hyenas.

Raptors and indom is different due to movie Canon, let Indom become the alpha of a raptor pack.
 
After some playing around and experimenting, here's some findings and tips.

-Animals that are Neutral to each other, or that have a Likes/Neutral relationship (using Ichthyosaurus and Liopleurodon as my examples for the latter) can cohabitate peacefully if you give them extra space. Liopleurodon requires six lagoon segments to reach its maximum comfortable area, while Ichthyosaurus only requires four segments. So, if you want to have them together, add 50% to 100% of the lesser requirement to the greater, so your lagoon would be comprised of eight to ten segments. This will give them room to have areas of no territorial overlap and also prevents the Ichthys from wearing themselves out panicking from the Lios. Also, you'll want a lot of fish feeders, something like 5 or so, because depending on how many individuals of each species you have (and territory size need slightly increases for each individual, the six segments are for the maximum five per clutch) they can have "Missing Fish" displayed even if they have their minimum feeder needs, since there's more individuals. Having a lot of fish feeders ensures that they're content with their food supply which means little to no aggression. I had five Lios and eight Ichthys in a nine-segment lagoon with five feeders for nearly an hour and there was no aggression or killing each other.

-For dinosaurs it's a similar deal, though a bit trickier since you build the enclosures from scratch. Using Allosaurus and Metriacanthasaurus as examples, build and adjust an Allosaurus enclosure so it has 100% contentment in its total area and everything else about 10% or so above the minimum requirement. Then expand the enclosure by, say, one full fence length along one or two sides, put in a second water spot in the new area away from the water already in, and put in a second goat feeder in the expanded area and a meat feeder somewhere in the middle of the enclosure or so. That should give the Metrias plenty of space to have their own non-overlapping territory areas since they're smaller than Allo, and plenty of food for everyone. As a secondary tip, try to have the minimum number of individuals for the larger animal possible, it might help curb their aggressiveness.

-For the herbivores, it's simply a matter of knowing who likes who and who's indifferent to who. You can have up to four different species together if you mix and match carefully, one example being an enclosure with Pachycephalosaurus, Chasmosaurus, and Crichtonsaurus, with two dinosaur species who like each other and the third but the third only likes one and is indifferent to the other. Also keep an eye on what each species eats, because even if they're compatible you might tear your hair out trying to balance their food needs if they all eat something different. This goes doubly for the sauropods not named Nigersaurus and Amargasaurus, as they generally need huge areas devoted to their food that few other dinosaurs share.

Hope that all helps you out!
 
I agree that herbivore cohabitation should be reworked. From what they've been telling us in the field guides, I thought that it would vary among individual species, not only on a group basis. I want more of that.
While, yes, cohabitation on based on formations would be a good addition, there's few animals this is applicable too. I'd like to see more than that.
 
Herbivores (Large and armored) currently cannot be housed with other herbivores of the same type. I personally think that herbivores should be able to live alongside other herbivores of the same type, BUT ONLY if they SHARE a formation with each other.

Examples:
Chasmosaurus and Styracosaurus
Huayangosaurus and Chungkingosaurus
Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus

For the sake of keeping most of the other armored and large herbivores away from each other, I suggest only adding the three mentioned combinations above and keeping the relations between the other herbivores as they currently are. I just need some better and more authentic herbivore cohabitation. Other than that, the game is okay.
Brachiosaurus, Camarasaurus, Apatosaurus, and Diplodocus are all from the Morrison Formation.

Also, in the game at least, Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus compete for food as they both require seed plants. Apatosaurus likes leafy plants like Gingkos and Diplodocus likes cycads.
 
Herbivores (Large and armored) currently cannot be housed with other herbivores of the same type. I personally think that herbivores should be able to live alongside other herbivores of the same type, BUT ONLY if they SHARE a formation with each other.

Examples:
Chasmosaurus and Styracosaurus
Huayangosaurus and Chungkingosaurus
Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus

For the sake of keeping most of the other armored and large herbivores away from each other, I suggest only adding the three mentioned combinations above and keeping the relations between the other herbivores as they currently are. I just need some better and more authentic herbivore cohabitation. Other than that, the game is okay.
I would agree that the current likes/dislikes system makes it difficult to house dinosaurs together which actually did coexist together, and makes it so that dinosaurs which lived tens of millions of years apart from each other and on different continents enjoy each other's company.
 
I agree that herbivore cohabitation should be reworked. From what they've been telling us in the field guides, I thought that it would vary among individual species, not only on a group basis. I want more of that.
While, yes, cohabitation on based on formations would be a good addition, there's few animals this is applicable too. I'd like to see more than that.
It does vary among a lot of individual species. Parasauralophus only likes Sauropods, while Edmontosaurus onlys like Archaeornithomimus instead of all ornithomimids. Haven't been through all of the herbivores' likes and dislikes, but there are individual differences.
 
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