Brett C
Frontier
There are a number of items that can cause an island to not achieve a five star rating.
This image below is from me spending four days (or about 10-12 hours total of trial and error) on the island, just to perfect the 5/5 star rating.
So let's figure out what causes those stars to disappear.
Things that can reduce your rating...
- Opening up your emergency shelters.
- Weather.
- Damaged buildings.
- Dinosaurs escaping their fenced in area.
- Not enough shops/food/etc.
- Unhealthy dinosaurs.
- Park Overcrowding (buildings everything too compact and not spaced out.)
- Park Facilities are mismanaged or misplaced.
Things that can SEVERELY degrade your parks rating...
- Dinosaurs killing your guests. (This will also hurt your pocket book)
- Keeping your shelters open for too long.
So now knowing what detracts your star value, let's look at what improves it. This delves into your park views management tool.
On your menu to the left, click on this...
Once clicked, you'll see something like this show up at the bottom left of your UI.
As you can see, there are 10 different management views. Each one depicts another "demand" of your park, be it your guests or your parks management/placement of items. Each of these items can affect your parks rating.
An overview of the park can be viewed by pressing C. This will open up your Management Panel. Click on Island Rating UI at the top left.
You should now see two panels that reveal the overall parks rating. The section on the right unlocks after you achieve the needed requirements to the map you're currently on.
Click on both of those boxes on the left, let's look at the details. Here's the details that shows your park's overall rating.
As you can see, dinosaurs that are long lived in my park with a history of combat, "earn a name for themselves" - this drastically increases the rating. Unfortunately, this can have a side effect of where my Dinosaurs welfare isn't... good. Fortunately, in this park, the positive Dinosaur ratings completely overcome the negatives... by a lot. Which is resulting in a very nice 5/5 rating on the left side.
What IS hurting my rating is the Facilities in my parks. So let's dig in to this, and why I am so terrible at guest satisfaction.
1) The dinosaur visibility in my park is wavering between 30 to 60%.
What does this mean? I do not have enough viewing access for guests to see the dinosaurs in all of their glory.
How do I fix it? Build more viewing sites - a variety if you may. This includes the following: Monorail going thru a "dead zone" side of the enclosures. Viewing galleries to view the "at ground level" dinosaurs that are close, but not too far. Viewing platforms to view dinosaurs at a distance.
2) My Food and drink, and shopping satisfaction is mostly to satisfaction...
What does this mean?
a) Prices too high,
b) too far away from "core demand areas" as highlighted in the management tool.
c) I do not have enough management/employees at the facility to accommodate the demand.
How can i fix that? Use the management tool to see where there are red and orange demand areas. These are commonly found near guest hot spots such as viewing points and hotels. Placing such commodities near these facilities can offset the negative and greatly increase satisfaction.
With due time, where the weather doesn't act-up, and where your dinosaurs aren't being skittery, you'll easily achieve a 4/5 to 5/5 rating in no time!
This image below is from me spending four days (or about 10-12 hours total of trial and error) on the island, just to perfect the 5/5 star rating.
So let's figure out what causes those stars to disappear.
Things that can reduce your rating...
- Opening up your emergency shelters.
- Weather.
- Damaged buildings.
- Dinosaurs escaping their fenced in area.
- Not enough shops/food/etc.
- Unhealthy dinosaurs.
- Park Overcrowding (buildings everything too compact and not spaced out.)
- Park Facilities are mismanaged or misplaced.
Things that can SEVERELY degrade your parks rating...
- Dinosaurs killing your guests. (This will also hurt your pocket book)
- Keeping your shelters open for too long.
So now knowing what detracts your star value, let's look at what improves it. This delves into your park views management tool.
On your menu to the left, click on this...
Once clicked, you'll see something like this show up at the bottom left of your UI.
As you can see, there are 10 different management views. Each one depicts another "demand" of your park, be it your guests or your parks management/placement of items. Each of these items can affect your parks rating.
An overview of the park can be viewed by pressing C. This will open up your Management Panel. Click on Island Rating UI at the top left.
You should now see two panels that reveal the overall parks rating. The section on the right unlocks after you achieve the needed requirements to the map you're currently on.
Click on both of those boxes on the left, let's look at the details. Here's the details that shows your park's overall rating.
As you can see, dinosaurs that are long lived in my park with a history of combat, "earn a name for themselves" - this drastically increases the rating. Unfortunately, this can have a side effect of where my Dinosaurs welfare isn't... good. Fortunately, in this park, the positive Dinosaur ratings completely overcome the negatives... by a lot. Which is resulting in a very nice 5/5 rating on the left side.
What IS hurting my rating is the Facilities in my parks. So let's dig in to this, and why I am so terrible at guest satisfaction.
1) The dinosaur visibility in my park is wavering between 30 to 60%.
What does this mean? I do not have enough viewing access for guests to see the dinosaurs in all of their glory.
How do I fix it? Build more viewing sites - a variety if you may. This includes the following: Monorail going thru a "dead zone" side of the enclosures. Viewing galleries to view the "at ground level" dinosaurs that are close, but not too far. Viewing platforms to view dinosaurs at a distance.
2) My Food and drink, and shopping satisfaction is mostly to satisfaction...
What does this mean?
a) Prices too high,
b) too far away from "core demand areas" as highlighted in the management tool.
c) I do not have enough management/employees at the facility to accommodate the demand.
How can i fix that? Use the management tool to see where there are red and orange demand areas. These are commonly found near guest hot spots such as viewing points and hotels. Placing such commodities near these facilities can offset the negative and greatly increase satisfaction.
With due time, where the weather doesn't act-up, and where your dinosaurs aren't being skittery, you'll easily achieve a 4/5 to 5/5 rating in no time!