To add to this, I think that upon spawning in as an already saved creature, it could also randomly shift your location around. IE. If you have a Rex saved at West Rail, and you change slots to... lets say an Omni, then switching back to the Rex would transport it to Highlands for example. Just another layer to the already explained countermeasures for spamming a single location with everything you've got.
That's an interesting suggestion. Though it would be pretty annoying if you logged off as say a carnivore with very little thirst/hunger and got teleported miles from anywhere with water/traffic. It would possibly work as its own countermeasure though, if say the 30 minute timer didn't just force you to start over on a playable but instead logging in within the 30 minutes teleported you somewhere random, causing a headache that can be avoided by waiting. Though that does leave open the possibility of abusing it to teleport around to opposite ends of the island with ease if it's not backed up by the other countermeasures. idk if it could be done well without creating more issues.
This issue is multiplied by the fact that there are usually only a handful of servers with consistently more than 50% player capacity - so if you want to play as a cerato with your friends on NA1, you are forced to choose between killing that stego you spent 10 hours growing or convincing them to play on a dead server.
I think, it would be nice, that instead of only one playable, you could have two, tied to each gender (kinda like Prior Excinction does). Then the game would open each session with select screen, where you choose the dino you want to play or delete it and start anew (as you explained in the video) It would probably be easier on the system too, with much less new UI, just a few buttons
Good point, I'd allow it. Having two of a playable isn't so bad and making one be male and the other female works to make things less annoying trying to organize a nest with others.
not a bad idea but at the same time this has its own problem i dont think i have to spell out but "revenge killing" plus this doesnt seem too important so i dont think the devs will do it but cool non the less
I definitely agree. Do you think there could be more flexibilty to the rules of selection after death? What I am thinking in particular is that you could play as one of your characters right after dying, but they have to be in a significantly defferent weight class, for example, if you die as a Rex to a Trike (as an example), you could could only play as a Cerato or something smaller, because you wouldn't really be able to revenge kill the Trike. Same thing when you die as a Cerato to, let's say, a Teno. If you then jump on a Rex, you will never be able to catch the Teno that killed you before. And maybe you could merge it with your time limit. The more time passes, the closer in weight class your next character could be to the one that just died.
When I was making this video I did consider the idea of an even more rigid system where you could only have 1 dinosaur of any given weight class (small tier, mid tier, sub apex, apex) But a kind of inversion of that as you suggested would be an interesting way to do it. A bit more complicated than a flat 30 minute timer, but if they ever added character selection I'd hope they would at least test your idea.
I don't think the "character creator" of The Isle is bad. That's how it was solved. People can't get their Stego to 100% in half an hour. It takes time and energy. And that's fine. You also need luck, because the island is dangerous. Perhaps many people take better care of their animals. Because it's time to raise a new one completely. I don't think they will change it. I think it works well as it is now. Although I haven't played it in about 2 months. Of course I understand your point. The PoT character creator is also good, you can customize your dino better than in The Isle. Some people like it better. But for some, it's enough to just roam the island with your "basic" Stego. Without a name or special abilities.
Did you watch the full video? He wasn't talking about the character creator so much as the ability to have multiple dinosaurs on one server in the isle.
