I have to disagree on the mixing building styles. One of my favorite things is to use the different eras/styles of buildings to help differentiate the parts of the park, kinda like Disney World.
Something I do when I have a small amount of open space is place down a different colour path, block off most of it with concrete barriers and put the Crain, a few shipping containers and a full tank/second Crain with a avian landing perch to make it look under construction
Hey Tom! I'm someone who rarely comments on yt, but i just had to say i love your videos. You seem to be an amazingly charming and cool guy and i enjoy watching your videos. I cant seem to understand why you don't have more followers, but I'm sure you'll get there! Keep the good work up. Also i took inspiration from your atlantis park and it's so much fun for me to build these days. I'd love to show it to you, but I won't upload any videos so just know you inspired me and brought me great joy, you can pat yourself on the shoulder for inspiring so much people, have a nice day Tom!^^
Wow ☺ this moved me, it really did, thank you so much 😊 I really appreciate the support and I'm so glad that you enjoy the content so much 😊 and I want to encourage you to share your creations, I'm sure they are lovely 😉 but at any case, glad you got inspired, it really is a joy 😁 thank you 🙂
Wow man, you’ve created some pretty fantastic parks over the course of this video. I’ll have to sub and check these out. I especially like what you did with the park at 1:38. You’re number 1 point, less (situational) planning, is my biggest challenge.
Thanks so much, buddy, glad you're enjoying the content 😁 and of course, not an expert here, if you feel like some of these don't resonate with you, feel free to forget all about them 😄
I just finished a build I call “dinosaur king” because it’s tiger king but with dinosaurs. Everything is ready to go wrong when trexes are behind security level 2 fences
Good thing now with the biosynth expansion is invisible fences!! When i make an enclosure with just planets or decorations as a fence the guests just run haha . ghost town ahha. At least now it will be natural and have guests. haa
I hate that you can still see that there is a barrier and it does not really look eastethic 😄 the planters are more plausible as barriers, and if you really squeeze them tightly together the guests don't run, the barrier is there 😉
You said two things that I really felt. "Try shapes that don't have any name, those are shapes too" And "Don't feel you have to finish it like... right now. Because you'll finish it eventually, it's not going anywere" Jajaja sorry, I had to write it 😂💙 Thank U I needed that Greetings from México 💚💚
I swear, compared to all of these talented people out there, my parks just look as if a 3 years old reached into his toybox and threw everything he grabbed right onto the carpet and call it a day.
I prefer to keep the park look like just a Dino park I can't bloody make a park where it is restricted to civilian and only park staff can be there like sorna Edit: basically a park that is restricted to the public and only agents off the company can be there
This is very useful for me. I'm not the greatest at park building and I've been trying to get better. I can just never figure out where I want to start and I'm not great at decided what goes where. I can never make a very good park that I'm happy with. I just end up making a couple carnivore enclosures and then just throw every herbivore into one paddock. Big issue that I'm trying to fix.
My advice is, just go with the flow, try things, try to put something somewhere, create some path designs, and most of all, improvise, don't really plan. Many of the things that I've done were completely improvised and often they have turned into highlights of my parks 😊 wish you luck with creating some nice stuff 😉
@@JurassicTom Thank you! It just hurts my self confidence for some reason seeing as though my little brother is better than me at quite a lot and he doesn't even try nor does he mean to be better. I feel proud of him, but I can't help but feel inferior. I'm starting to get angry when I try to build parks because they don't look good esthetically.
@@assassinsa1 I get what you mean. But it just takes a little bit of practice and patience with placing the decorations 😅 you should have seen my first sandbox parks, those were a mess 😄
@@JurassicTom Oh I'm sure. I'm watching your 4th episode of the Biosyn Recreation Park and I just want you to know... I'm on console. 😂 More and more things are making me want a PC. 😂
Can we get a do and don'ts for the new square maps... Also the square maps are HUGE. Is it too much to split the map into Time Periods and have a showcase for each time period (early/late Cretaceous/Jurassic etc) and then make each of those like a mini park much like Disney world... Would mixing building styles then be a thematic choice? Where OG Jurassic Park buildings where for only the Jurassic Time Period? In base game (no DLC) there's late Triassic, early mid and late Jurassic, early and late Cretaceous and then Holocene The park idea would be like a clock face a large circular park split per period
Is it necessary to disable both the comfort and needs of dinosaurs from the sandbox level? In my opinion, their needs limit the possibilities a bit, especially in the case of predators where you have to sacrifice a lot of paddock for a boring forest
Always turn off the needs, in my opinion, the dinosaur needs destroy your creative freedom. I bet none of my enclosures ever suit any of my dinosaurs 😂 but that's the sacrifice if you want them to look good 😁
I do get your point, yes, and I am battling with that notion myself sometimes, but then I think, when you look at the size of a huayangosaurus, for example, it's smaller than a regular planter, and with the way how its body is built, I'd believe you can keep it in such enclosure :D but of course, to create diversity, you need to stretch the realism of things a little I think.
4:30 Needed that, the reason why is this. I am working on a Nublar 1993 build and just finished my upper section of the map and it came out really good, though, some more rock placements should round it out. Now I am on the lower section putting in my hotels and facilities and last few enclousers and its tempting to rush because I can't populate the rest of the park until the facilities are complete because that's where the hatchery is. I actually left hurricanes on and just didn't turn them off so there are bunch of broken fences and gates. Will need to take some time to drive around and fix those... I may stream that now that I am thinking of it.
@@JurassicTom So iI actually decided to go down to first person mode and explore my build and repair everything manually managed to get lost in my own park.
@@JurassicTom I have a save file of before I did the repairs. I am tempted to record a mini series off me getting the park under control. Not sure though, I have PS4 and can stream but I have never used it to record before.
I like fencing in my people and running a large natural environment for the dinos and helping when they get injured watch them in their natural environment lol
I don't know but... I feel that, even if I try to make my park in the sandbox mode cute, it looks ugly, I feel that the decorations are not aligned and that the paths end up going one on top of the other and making some changes in their structure because of that, I also feel that, because I play on an xbox one (a console that was not made for JWE 2), I will never be able to make a beautiful park, just people using PCS and a console like Xbox Seires X and a PlayStation 5 can... Do these little problems turn out to be facts or is it just me having problems because I can't make nice and cool parks...?
For the paths clipping, there is a trick, you need to connect the path to the same kind of path that it was connected from. It means that, for example you have the red path, black path, and white path, in order for the white path not to go over, if you connect it to the red one, it needs to finish in the red one, not the black one. I do not know how it is to place decorations other than on PC, but even there it takes a lot of patience and going back, deleting it, adjusting it... sometimes I'm losing it in the process 😆 I know it's harder on console from what I've heard, but I wish you luck, I'm sure you can do it 😊
Thank you so much! I have a video on how to create mountain formations, if you'd like to check it out 😊 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X_C-ztKhQ3w.html
There needs to be enough space between the center and the path, cause the center is more of an oval shape than a circle. Let me know if it works for you 😁
Thank you 😊 well, it happens to me, too, I really wanna build on a certain map, then get there and it's crickets 😆 happened with Pennsylvania and Yosemite too... in cases like these, I jist place the arrival point and improvise, try path patterns and do something completely random, sometimes I change it, but usually it evolves into something 😊 so, not a great tip per se, but I'd say just go with the flow 😅
The thing about number 5 is; I love using planters or something as fences but the dinosaurs tend to phase through them constantly and I have to place a response facility to tranquilize them. (I make sure to place them close enough but for some reason they just walk through like nothings there.)
That's odd, I thought it was only a problem with the big rocks and they fixed that one. I never had the animals phase through the planters, all my parks would be toast, basically :D
When you talk about viewing galleries being higher up to maximise the view of the dinosaurs does it actually make a difference in the game, or is it just for realism?
Mostly just for realism, and also, when you then visit the gallery, it sometimes happens that on an even ground you can barely see anything in the enclosure 😅
You can put the tours there by default, just lean with the tour path towards the wall and it should automatically click. With the dinosaurs, that's a glitch exploit. Some dinos have a running animation when exiting the hatchery. If you put the hatchery very close to the aviary, they get locked in the animation and some of them run through the wall 🙂
you can ignore the first one and get a good park still, like, a less defensive one for less agressive (jp), a medium for kinda agressive (DFW) and the most armored for agressive (jw)
@@JurassicTom indeed, I now place the paths and then distribute the Attraction Modules to get a sense of where the people will move on the park and then lay out viewing galleries as well, stores bathroom and hotels so when I place the fencing system I have ample room to place things. Measuring the radius of the guest visibility is also an important part of park building.
@@luisemoralesfalcon4716 I don't care about the visibility, cause this game thinks the guests are blind outside of viewing galleries 😆 just want my parks to look good the way thay I decide 😁
@@arathearapaima7107 I believe that the comfort and Dino needs turned on pretty much ruin the park designs 😅 so my advice will always be, turn everything off and do what you think looks pretty 😁
yes, thanks for answering. I see that on your tropical map, there are several species of trees and shrubs that can be placed individually, but on my map there are only three trees. How can I get that vegetation to decorate?
@@yonathanparra92 if you're on a PC or a newer console, you can turn on the option for mixed vegetation in the Sandbox settings, it's unfortunately not available for older consoles tho
Well, I want to make a map that is just one big enclosure with a ton of Dinos but how do I get them to not murder each other and the hybrids going on a killing spree?
@@JurassicTom thank you so much, I asked this because I want to make a map that is like a national park and I did not want fences or Dinos eating people
You've deinfetly earned a new subscriber! I was wondering, do you ever plan on doing a OG Jurassic Park themed build on Nublar 1993? I don't mean a recreation, just like your San Diego park but for the original.
Thank you so much! 😊 At first I thought I wouldn't recreate it, now I'm not against it... I was thinking maybe next year for the 30 year anniversary occasion. But yes, I guess I would put my own twist on it 😁
I haven't played JWE 2 in couple months now, simply because I did make these don'ts in sandbox, everything looked too similar, too big enclosures, too little in enclosures, rushing, etc. But now, I might go back to play it and learn from my mistakes
Wow, that is so great to hear you got inspired to get back to it 😁 but my additional advice would be, make your own rules a build whatever you feel like you're gonna enjoy! 😊
Thank you alot because i just bought this game 3 days ago and on the fist day I winged it in sandbox mode and I thought it was really good but after wacthing this I rate my park a 4/10😊. You have given me many ideas and designs. !!!!
i dont think mixing the styles is bad, you can even make certain areas of the park with different styles, a more modern area to use JW hotels, a Beach area with JP hotel and so on.
For the tip for not only using fences for like a cryolophosaurus exhibit I made I made th main front fence area with jo styled hotels and added rocks and It works a lot for like more up close enclosures
Thanks for the tips! I just find it really difficult and annoying to lower/flatten/raise terrain.. I've tried using that a few times but it just never does what I want it to do.. Any advice on that? :(
My tip would be to play with the sensitivity a little, I usually also forget it is there and do everything on highest sensitivity, which might not always be the best option though. Also, make sure you have the grid lines visible when editing, it's a huge help. And lastly, it takes a lot of patience and going back and forth. But it's not impossible, one tip I would have for creating smooth paths that go up and down, always try to flatten different levels of it at first, with just tiny short clicks, spread it out a little and then smooth. Hopefully, you get what I mean, it's kinda hard to explain 😄
Hi! I absolutely love all your videos, despite not having jwe2. I was a huge fan of the original jwe, and still play it often. I am saving up for a better console to get jwe2, but I was wondering, in sandbox is there an option to start the park with the land being completely flat? This was a big issue for me when I played the original :)
Thank you so much, I appreciate the support 😁 yes, you now have the option to start with a flattened terrain, no lakes, no trees, just a hollow flat map 🙂 plus, there are many more quality of life fixes since the first game, you really should get this one 😁
If you have the smallest path and put decorations to both sides, the AI won't place the people there, they basically have no space to walk, that's what happens to me sometimes.
@@YeaItsMehehe hm 🤔 I wonder, might be there's no dinosaurs visible, a silly suggestion, but a closed park 😅 or the path being cut off by something somehwere else 🤔 other than that I don't know 🤷♂️
@@JurassicTom oh yes I am obsessive about it just like you and its so silly because before I started watching your videos I didn't even notice the crooked fences 🤣😂
I meant, if you have different elevation levels in your enclosure, it does not look natural if the water is higher than other levels, usually lakes are below the elevated parts. Unless you're faking waterfalls somehow 😅
@@JurassicTom I've been having that problem where when I put in water it rises from the ground... Almost like a Geyser! I hate that. Any advice on how to do right or decent ?
