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Kind of like how hadrosaurus and anatotitan got rolled into the edmontosaurus family when they recognized them as subspecies
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Species, not subspecies.  The names we popularly know dinosaurs by, like Tyrannosaurus, is the genus, which is one step above species. As a modern example the genus Canis includes among other things all species of wolves and jackals, for example Canis lupus, the grey wolf. In the same way Tyrannosaurus is the genus and Tyrannosaurus rex is a species within that genus. Of course it all gets a bit fuzzy when all you've got is fossils, and so sometimes one genus gets reassigned as a species under another genus, or a species gets to be its own genus.
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Jul 2, 2018 00:31
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I like to drive the Jeep around and feed my dinosaur friends  I'm kinda afraid to move on to the next island. I like my calm chill parks.
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Jul 2, 2018 01:06
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precision posted:I like to drive the Jeep around and feed my dinosaur friends Youre right, after getting good on the later islands i wish all the islands had disaster storms
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Jul 2, 2018 03:08
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So, I impulse bought this for PS4 over the weekend. I'm enjoying it, but it really needs some audio cues to inform me when things like research is completed, or a fossil hunting expedition returned. Also, my ceratosaurs ate a visitor.
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Jul 2, 2018 13:30
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I've noticed that a ton of theropods seem to be lacking their pubic bones. I guess masrani got a little prudish about dinosaurs with big naughty protrusions. Why wouldn't they just move the nublar dinosaurs to sorna? They already decided to unceremoniously kill off all the dino wildlife on that island and while it is also volcanic it is much larger than nublar and would be able to better handle an eruption. And for that matter just how small is nublar that it can have it's entire ecosystem threatened by a single volcano? There are volcanic archipelagos that support plenty of wildlife out there. Obviously they don't have animals as big as dinosaurs but islands that are big enough to support vast jungles and greenery don't tend to explode entirely when the volcano erupts.
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Man you'd think Isle Sorna would of had a wildcard conditions where you have to deal with wild dinosaurs occasionally trying to break into your park or just wandering around.
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U.T. Raptor posted:For example, Dracorex and Stygimoloch are almost certainly not real species, they're stages Pachycephalosaurus goes through as it grows up. Maybe. Jack horner has weird ideas about dinos and their natural evolution and defences. he is on record saying that Triceratops horns weren't for defense or a protective measure but a display for mating, "because having a defensive weapon on your had is a dumb thing" and ignores the fact that rinos are a thing
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Jul 3, 2018 14:28
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I’m picking up my physical copy today. Any tips before I start playing?
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Tythas posted:Maybe. Jack horner has weird ideas about dinos and their natural evolution and defences. he is on record saying that Triceratops horns weren't for defense or a protective measure but a display for mating, "because having a defensive weapon on your had is a dumb thing" and ignores the fact that rinos are a thing That's really dumb. Having pokey things sticking out of your vulnerable bits is a pretty good idea, less bites that way.
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Jul 3, 2018 15:56
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Especially when you consider that a T Rex would eat a triceratops via decapitation. Curling your head back so the crest covers your vulnerable neck and pointing your big spikes into a Rex makes sense.
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Jack Horner is also the guy who is arguing that the T rex was a scavenger instead of an Apex predator with the fact of it's arms were so small that it couldn't\wouldn't run because if it fell it wouldn't be able to get back up. Edit I have since learned that this theory was disproven Tythas fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jul 3, 2018 |
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Tythas posted:Jack Horner is also the guy who is arguing that the T rex was a scavenger instead of an Apex predator with the fact of it's arms were so small that it couldn't\wouldn't run because if it fell it wouldn't be able to get back up. As we all know, when emus fall over while decimating unwary tourists taking selfies they are unable to get back up due to the lack of arms.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just about everything in JP is way oversized. The brachiosaurs are easily twice the size they actually were. I think there was a Gallimimus in Fallen Kingdom, and it must've been ten feet tall. They made the Kronosaurus so big that it's easily the largest creature to ever exist in the JP universe. Maybe all human characters are actually tiny.
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Hey so I won a code from Frontier for the game, problem is it’s for Xbox, would anyone want it ?
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fit em all up in there posted:Hey so I won a code from Frontier for the game, problem is it’s for Xbox, would anyone want it ? If it’s still Up for grabs I will take it.
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Looks like they made a mistake and it's the deluxe edition for PC. If anyone wants it.
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I'd use it but I don't have PMs so I can't use it 
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fit em all up in there posted:Looks like they made a mistake and it's the deluxe edition for PC. If anyone wants it. I'd love it if it's available!
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I played the first Island for like ten hours and didn’t like this game...started on the second island and I understand the loop now and enjoying it. Just wish I could unlock dinosaurs easier I still only have 1 carnivore
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Just about everything in JP is way oversized. The brachiosaurs are easily twice the size they actually were. I think there was a Gallimimus in Fallen Kingdom, and it must've been ten feet tall. They made the Kronosaurus so big that it's easily the largest creature to ever exist in the JP universe. Not as much as you might think.
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Warbadger posted:As we all know, when emus fall over while decimating unwary tourists taking selfies they are unable to get back up due to the lack of arms. Wikipedia also makes the point that giraffes are susceptible to this risk too.SirDrone posted:Man you'd think Isle Sorna would of had a wildcard conditions where you have to deal with wild dinosaurs occasionally trying to break into your park or just wandering around. Elukka fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 3, 2018 |
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Jul 3, 2018 21:41
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Still think a lot of those are off. Look at this cap from the original JP. The characters are dwarfed by the brachiosaur, and theyr'e still 50 feet away from it. If Grant went up next to it, he'd barely come up to it's ankle.  And the Kronosaur in Fallen Kingdom, this thing is basically bigger than a blue whale, when in reality it was about three times smaller than a blue, at about 30 feet long. 
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The kronosaurus is far too big, but I don't think the Brachiosaurus necessarily is. It's difficult to account for perspective (doesn't help that it's heavily affected by focal length) but by the pics in my previous post on the subject they look about the same to me. e: I wonder if the scale is actually consistent from shot to shot. It looks bigger in the closeup. Elukka fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Jul 4, 2018 |
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There really isn't any herd behaviour at all in this game is there? Sure same-species gatherings happen, but otherwise the specimens just walk around on their own. It's no wonder predatory dinosaurs have such an easy time killing herbivores; they don't stick together, so your ceratosaurus will just crush anything it comes across. Meanwhile, velociraptors don't hunt in packs which is like the opposite of how they should act. "They're not moving in herds. They don't move in herds."
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Yeah it's a real shame. All it would take is some better AI scripting, but I don't have high hopes that they'll change it, and they don't expose it for modding.
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I wish people would stop mentioning the pile of poo poo operation genesis when talking about this superior jurassic park game
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Tythas posted:Maybe. Jack horner has weird ideas about dinos and their natural evolution and defences. he is on record saying that Triceratops horns weren't for defense or a protective measure but a display for mating, "because having a defensive weapon on your had is a dumb thing" and ignores the fact that rinos are a thing To be fair rhinos are currently dying out because of the defensive weapon on their head, so maybe it really is a dumb thing.
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HORMELCHILI posted:I wish people would stop mentioning the pile of poo poo operation genesis when talking about this superior jurassic park game They did have a weird tendency to slowly migrate southwest though which was annoying.
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That sounds rad. I'd love to set up a dino safari or something.
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like i posted earlier via a weird quirk of the game engine you can use bins to make sections of footpath passable to visitors but not dinos, and have a path that leads through an enclosure full of small docile herbivores, like a petting zoo
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I bought the physical PS4 version, I see that there is a bundle of Dino’s from the digital deluxe version for $11. Are they worth that price?
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Hugs Viridiant posted:That sounds rad. I'd love to set up a dino safari or something. I do wanna add that JPOG was actually a pretty shallow game, more so than this, because reminiscing about what it did better easily makes it sounds better than it was. Loved it at the time though.
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Elukka posted:I do wanna add that JPOG was actually a pretty shallow game, more so than this, because reminiscing about what it did better easily makes it sounds better than it was. Loved it at the time though. I also liked how you could plant two different kinds of plants (Cheaper modern day plants or ancient cloned plants)
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Jul 7, 2018 15:37
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I always wondered what grass would do to dinosaurs digestion.
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Elukka posted:Hugs It was a shallow game w/r/t park building, but the dino AI was just good enough to make it a dinosaur zen sandbox game. They'd wander around and do a convincing enough job at being neat animals that it was fun to watch and that gave a ton replay value. Just look at the decade of extensive modding focused on the dinos contrasted with basically nobody spending time revamping the park building side. This game, I'd argue is a little deeper on the park building side (though not very deep), but tragically shallow on the dinosaur side. I don't think the game has any replay value as it stands right now, which is a shame. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jul 7, 2018 |
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ijyt posted:I always wondered what grass would do to dinosaurs digestion. Grasses evolved in the late Cretaceous so grazing herbivores of that time like ceratopsians, ankylosaurs and hadrosaurs probably dealt with grass just fine, it's been found in dino coprolites.
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I thought that grass or grass ancestors had appeared even earlier than the cretaceous as well?
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Huh, guess I haven't kept up, learned something new today.
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quite stretched out posted:like i posted earlier via a weird quirk of the game engine you can use bins to make sections of footpath passable to visitors but not dinos, and have a path that leads through an enclosure full of small docile herbivores, like a petting zoo Wait, what? Can you expand on that? That sounds amazing!
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