Board Thread:Video Games/@comment-25383890-20150715065518/@comment-17754282-20150724223638

D9 fan wrote:

Dalek123 wrote: How about something simmilar, where you build anywhere you want (your options being Isla Nublar, Jurassic Park: San Diego, Jurassic Park: Canada, Jurassic Park: Europe, Jurassic Park: Japan and Jurassic Park: Kenya). If you build Jurassic Park: San Diego, you are able to dig for amber all around the US without having to buy dig sites. However, if you want a Spinosaurus, you either have to buy a digsite in North Africa (which is really expensive) or see if anyone with Jurassic Park: Kenya is selling/trading Spinosaurus DNA. I'm not sure, I mean I just live having a park on an island and being able to get dinosaurs from all over the world rather than be limited to one area, I think it would cause more problems than it's worth. You could always have a freeform/sandbox mode where you can play without restrictions.

My original thought of having access to dinosaurs based on where you put your park was due to the idea that it would determine difficulty. Ok, so forget just putting your park where you live and instead you get to just choose where you put it, my thought was that if you decided to put your park somewhere in North America, you would also have selected the game's default "Easy" mode as not only are there a huge number of possible dig sites and prehistoric species available, the majority of the most famous Dinosaurs were all discovered in North America - Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Deinonychus and so on.

A park in Europe would be slightly harder  - it's Dinosaurs are not so famous, with only a few standing out, but there are plenty of dig sites and a lots of different Dinosaurs available. Then Asia would be the next most difficult, followed by South America, then Africa and finally Australasia, with its far fewer dig sites, far fewer dinosaurs and relative lack of famous Dinosaurs would be the hardest mode.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to playing each park that aren't just related to what is available. Naturally most people would just go for the game's "Easy Mode" and select North America. However this would have a knock on effect on the online marketplace idea I had - if most people play in North America then fossils of the likes of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops would be common and thus difficult to get rid of, whereas fossils of Leaellynasaura and Muttaburrasaurus from Australia would be rare and therefore much sought after - in fact it could even work out that players of the harder maps would have a much easier time getting fossils from other regions than those who play on the easier maps.