My thoughts so far on RCT3 Wild

So far I enjoy the new features of having the Animals in my game. Taking care of them isn’t as hard as I thought it would be. You don’t really have to sit there babysitting your animals if you have the pen well staffed and well maintained. The fence on the pin does wear out and break but as long as you have proper staff stationed nearby, it would be fixed fast and no animals will escape. Now the only baby siting you would have to do is when your breeding animals. Whenever you are breeding animals, you do have to check back every half to full hour depending on the size of your pen and how many houses you have for it. The best animals to breed is the lions as they are gold mines when they have a litter of cubs. Each lion cub is worth more than $550 each.

Some of the other features I have played with are the billboards and the custom stalls. The billboards can be programed with images on my computer or from the online ad images (which right now has Beavis and Butthead DVD advertisements). I have personally used images like the Patriot Advertisement for Worlds of Fun, a Skyline shot of Cedar Point’s Big 3, and a night time shot of Detonator at Worlds of Fun. There are also custom stalls of various types of shapes with or without the billboards on them. You can sell anything at these stalls or change them at anytime for example; one day your stall may be selling drinks, the next day you decide to make it sell balloons.

The on;y downside to this pack was there wasn't enough animals to choose from.

So anyway to me this pack gave me some fun new twists to this game and was worth the $12 I spent on it (price reflects the cost after using my Best Buy Bucks).

*** Edited 11/3/2005 5:28:06 AM UTC by Sawblade5***

Custom stalls, eh?

Does this mean we can at least simulate having a games midway.

I realize the game will probably treat the stalls as shops, and not having seen what the custom stalls look like, I don't know how it would look, but you could always name them stuff like "Ring Toss", "Bust a Baloon" "Water Race" and choose some souvenir item as the product.

Doable?

Yea all you would have to do is use a Custom Stall with Billboard and make an image of the game name you want to use. In order to make it seems like a game you have to select a prize of some sort like a Cowboy Hat or an Animal Balloon, the downside is that RCT3 does not have games so in this case everybody wins and you won’t be seeing your peeps play games but it seems like they were.

The only real game I have seen them add for the peeps on this game are the passport machines that you set at various spots in the park. In this RCT3 Wild every peep enters your park with one of these passports and they get them stamped at these passport machines. After they collect a certain amount of stamps, they can claim a prize. The amount of stamps to collect for wining and the type of prizes are set by you. These prizes are claimed at the passport machines where your peeps collect the stamps at. The passport machines are under the path extras menu and you can modify the game setting from inside the passport machine window. (Bring it up by double clicking a passport machine you have set) You can also see how many passport stamps a particular peep has collected in the Peep Window by clicking on the passport icon.

The passport machines are in Soaked.

Any performance improvements...or is it just another shiny addition to a malfunctioning game engine? Any new coaster features? I seen it in stores...kinda waiting on the whole story.

If anything there's performance decreases...big time. Supposedly Frontier knows what caused it and a patch is just around the bend.

My take on Wild is near the end of this thread, if you care.

Thanks...not very convincing from what I read...what gets me does the limited good worth buying and usiing all this worthless crap...I don't have any really ambition to put animals in the park...mostly just the new flats and coasters.....but always time to play with stupid crap.

I love the game... I always have, I always will...

...but there ARE quirks with the game that really bog down the gameplay that just irritate the crap outta me sometimes.

My biggest beef is with the sound. I know it's not my soundcard... it's the sound in the game. The audible levels are so off-balance, it's not even funny. I don't know if anyone experienced this, but if you put a ride & set music to it... if you sit idle until the song loops to the beginning, it'll play at full blast through your speakers dominating any other sounds you have going. It's not until you scroll or zoom even the slightest bit that it'll stop.

The same thing happens with the loud speakers that you place on the paths. I set some to ambient wind, some to birds... and when it comes time for it to loop there... it'll play at full blast unless you move your mouse. That really detracts from gameplay when you're concentrating on building something & then all of a sudden...

...an easy solution is to not use custom music or loudspeakers, but hey... that's what the game is for, right? It also makes your peeps happer.

Other than that, I've enjoyed the game enough to not find that many flaws (aside from the performance). I like the new coasters & the S&S Screaming Squirrel can get quite creative as well, in such a small footprint.

The animals themselves... I had monkeys get pregnant, but I don't like how if your land is a little uneven in such a way, they won't roam there. You can click & check their roamable land in their pen, and some of it isn't highlighted that should be when it's just slightly uneven... guess flat land is what they're going to stick to.
Oh... and the elephant didn't squash the monkey when I put them together. I wonder if the tiger will eat the monkey if I put them together, though.

I just purchased my own copy today but I am not at my house at the moment. I will play with it some time tonight though. I am really looking forward to the new peices and have already started thinking of ideas for this new expansion.

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I wonder if the tiger will eat the monkey if I put them together, though.

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Yes it will. :)

I set up a park that was breeding chimps solely for the purpose of feeding the panthers.

I suppose there's some kind of personality analysis in it somewhere, but you can either fill a holding area with panthers (or other predatory carnivore) and then drop a single baby chimp in or you can fill it with baby chimps and drop a single panther in.

I find both quite entertaining.

So did I. IN Fact, I put in a bear, a panther, a leopard, a tiger, a lion, a hippo, an elephant, and then some 'food' to chase. Quite fun, I'm sadistic...

"Survival of the Fittest" was always my favorite part of Zoo Tycoon as well <g>. The pandas can't hold their own against hardly anything (well, probably zebras & giraffes.) No wonder they're endangered...

I actually like the animal component in Wild better than Zoo Tycoon. The AI interface isn't nearly as good, but in my book that's a plus--the animals aren't so hard to keep happy. (In Wild they couldn't care less what trees you put in their enclosures...unlike Zoo Tycoon.) They also breed like crazy and you can sell them for nice chunk of change.

I've been enjoying Wild...although I have yet to open my park, so I'm sure performance will crash once that happens...

Joel

You guys are all sick freaks! Turning a family friendly game of building amusement parks into some sick jungle where you watch baby animals get savagely killed! ;)

I will note that I enjoy it also but... its still wrong. :)