28-12-1999 23:10									#1
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Perhaps the reason why so many people rejected the dino idea is because of our limited mindset of what the game will be like. . we're thinking in terms of what we already know, but this will be a NEW game. . . so lets start trying to think of how it will be aNEW game, not something like civilization or gettysburg. .

	29-12-1999 03:44									#2
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Let's start a Dino wishlist

	29-12-1999 16:19									#3
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My wish for the game is unlike Steven Spielberg, Sid uses the correct names for the dinosaurs.
Tyrannosaurus, not T-Rex; Deinonychus, not Velocirapter (the real one has no toe claw) and so on.

(spelling correction)


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	29-12-1999 20:32									#4
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Narck, i suggested a wish list already lol But the idea wasn't too well recieved, if you look on the pages of all the old threads, youll find it buried somewhere. . lol

	01-01-2000 01:50									#5
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Hi Mouse.

Stephen Spielbergo was incorrect in naming the "Raptors" in Jurassic Park Velociraptor because the real species Velociraptor was much much smaller...about 3 or 4 feet tall at the shoulder. This is the size given in the novel, btw. Deinonychus was bigger...the wolf to Velociraptor's fox. Now we've recently found even larger raptors, Utahraptor, which was about the same size as the "raptors" portrayed in the movie. All of these related species were similar...with the large toe claws and everything. Think of it like the cat family. You have little ocelots, medium sized lynx, large jaguars and giant tigers, but all of them are the same basic idea.

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	01-01-2000 18:55									#6
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quote: BURNS: Get me Steven Spielberg. SMITHERS: Erm, he`s unavailable Sir BURNS: Then Get me his non-union Mexican Counterpart (Next Scene) BURNS: Well, Senor Spielbergo, i have a proposition

	04-01-2000 21:53									#7
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Velociraptor

Is this going to be a children's game, or an adult's game? Or somewhere in between?

	05-01-2000 10:42									#8
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Taken From Sid's Diaries
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The attitude of the game is similar to Civilization , some basis in reality - but fun and familiar. A combination of science and dinosaur movies. Large scope, epoch-spanning, broad-brush. Not constrained by what actually happened, just by what could have happened (The Meteor missed? MAYBE. Bigger, faster, cooler, colorful, dinos. YES. Aliens land on earth. NO).
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=>Some basis in reality but a combination of science and dinosaur movies.

So it seems that historical acuracy won't be very important.

	04-01-2000 23:38									#9
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Historical accuracy be damned. Just make sure it's fun. The last thing the world needs is scientifically correct dinosaur management simulator.

I suggest that the map continents should "drift" like the real continents. This would be both historical and interesting from a gameplay standpoint.
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	04-01-2000 23:55									#10
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I know this may sound completely and utterly stupid, but if I'm right about the Sweep of time trilogy, why don't you have a LOSING victory condition as meteor showers coming along and wiping out the dinosaurs, making way for primitive humans, setting up the scene for Civ II (or III). imagine the avi film at the end, setting the scene for human civilization, and then civilization III having the opening video the same as the final one on dinosaurs????!?!?!


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