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[Girlinhat]

Suggest building a large enclosure for numerous small herbivores.  This can keep the little elves Fun Lovers occupied watching the little leafers frolic about.  Make it a large area as well.  Something big enough to accommodate a modest herd, as well as a T-rex.  You're going to throw some wild parties later, better get the furniture bolted down and the appetizers set out.

[Duke 2.0]

 Well we gotta decide how the park will operate. Will you have various closed off enclosures like a traditional zoo, or will you just section off large swaths of the park and safari it up?

 Safari seems like a more visually pleasing and dangerous option. You can even use those mountains as a choke for some large enclosure in that direction.

[Girlinhat]

Mountains appear not to choke very well.  Wide-open safari has definite advantages.  For one, jeep rides.  For two, balloon rides.  For three, the Circle of Life.  There's very high value in having dinosaurs eat each other, and you can put all your eggs in one basket here.  Instead of having an enclosure and some viewing pots, you can have 5 enclosures combined into 1, and reduce the cost of amenities and walking paths.  Then you just wood over some area, flatten out another area, toss some feeders around, and hatch things randomly!

My only regret is that dinosaurs don't mate.

[Duke 2.0]

 Then you can segregate the 'always kill on sight everything' dinosaurs to across the river.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

More importantly, we can minimize security fence costs.

[Neonivek]

Hey!

You said this was Dinosaur Tycoon, I am disapoint. Then again the only Dinosaur Tycoon I am aware of is Zoo Tycoon with the Dinosaur expansion... so I guess my arguement is null and void.

[Jack_Bread]

Mountains appear not to choke very well.  Wide-open safari has definite advantages.  For one, jeep rides.  For two, balloon rides.  For three, the Circle of Life.  There's very high value in having dinosaurs eat each other, and you can put all your eggs in one basket here.  Instead of having an enclosure and some viewing pots, you can have 5 enclosures combined into 1, and reduce the cost of amenities and walking paths.  Then you just wood over some area, flatten out another area, toss some feeders around, and hatch things randomly!

My only regret is that dinosaurs don't mate.

What you're saying is surround the center of the island with fences and then let the dinos roam free outside of it?

Also note we've got $47,000 about. Fences are fairly expensive if you want enough for a decent sized enclosure, then there's also the hatchery which I think costs ~$6,000 and then the feeders which cost $1,500. Then, of course, the dinos have their own cost for hatching them, which is in the thousands range. It's a little over $1,000 for a dryosaurus, for example. I think around 2 or $3,000 for ceratosaurus.

If we want to do anything big, it's best to start small, temporary ideas.

(Double ninja'd)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Right, use as little fence as possible, then. We need that capitol.

[Girlinhat]

Then you can segregate the 'always kill on sight everything' dinosaurs to across the river.

Rivers don't stop dinosaurs.  They only give them a refreshing drink.

However, it should be possible to build up some land across a very wide river, and then not fence it.  In theory, the dinos would have no reason to cross.  You could then set up balloon rides and viewing domes to the other side rather freely.  For bonus dwarf points, you can build sentry turrets on the "friendly side" just in case any get over.

Less "dinosaur theme park" and more "imminent dinosaur siege".

NINJAL JackBeard!  I know I mispelled that, but Beard>Bread.  That actually sounds neat.  Put the visitors in the middle, and enclose them!  That's also cheaper on infrastructure, as you only need a small enclosure for the humans and then just let the dinos run wild.

I've noticed though, you need to be careful with veggies and meaties.  If you put the veggie dispenser too close to the meaty dispenser, then all the herbivores get scared away by the carnivores and end up going into a coma because they're too scared to come closer for food.  It's possible to have an enclosure too big for your dispensers to maintain.

[Jack_Bread]

That actually sounds neat.  Put the visitors in the middle, and enclose them!  That's also cheaper on infrastructure, as you only need a small enclosure for the humans and then just let the dinos run wild.

There's one problem that I just remembered. Visitors hate crowds. If we don't give them enough room, they'll complain non-stop and thus, lower their opinion of our park.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Then let them roam free in nature.

[Girlinhat]

Protip: Tornadoes will wreck yo shit up hardcore.  I had one rampage straight through my busy open-range safari and associated tourist trap.  Then I learned how to set emergency mode, about $60,000 later.

[NRDL]

Then let them roam free in nature.

[Furtuka]

Then let them roam free in nature.

You actually can unlock a natury Site-B mode, but you have to beat all the missions to do so.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Then let them roam free in nature.

You actually can unlock a natury Site-B mode, but you have to beat all the missions to do so.

No, I mean the tourists. Let the tourists roam free. And hire some scavenger teams.