This achievement can be confusing if you are unsure of what is required for 5 stars on each of the islands. Luckily, the game gives us all of the required information to obtain this with ease.
The Island Rating is based on the average of two different stats: the Dinosaur Rating and the Facility Rating. In order to obtain 5 stars for your island, you must achieve 5 stars for both dinosaurs and facilities at the same time. These ratings are based on several different stats, and in this guide I will offer tips to maximise these stats and help you earn 5 stars.
To check your Island Rating, press
to go into Island Management, then
on Island Rating. Here, you can see a summary of the dinosaur and facility ratings, and you can to press
to see more information. This information will be our main tool for raising the ratings to 5 stars.
Dinosaur Rating Each individual dinosaur has a numerical rating based on its species, genes, and welfare. The Dinosaur Rating is simply the sum of the rating of all of your dinosaurs.
Ways to improve dinosaur rating
- Base Rating: Dependent on species, larger dinosaurs will provide a larger rating.
- Authenticity: Dependent on the completeness of the genome, will provide the maximum bonus at 100% genome. Does not decrease with modifications.
- Modifications: Modifying the genome in the Hammond Creation Lab will change the dinosaurs statistics and increase the rating. Adding modifications to the genome will not decrease the authenticity rating of the dino. Modifications decrease viability, so too many may cause the dino to fail to hatch. This can be rectified with a Success Rate upgrade to the Creation Lab.
- Combat Infamy: If a dinosaur wins a fight, its rating can increase by up to half of the defeated dinosaurs rating.
- Welfare Penalty: If the dinosaurs health and comfort are low, its rating will decrease. Ensure that it has enough food and water, enough room in the enclosure with the right amount of grassland and forest, and that the population in the enclosure is not too high (or low). Ensure these needs are met for the rating to be restored.
- Variety Rating: This is not included in an individual dinosaurs rating, but having too many of the same species will cause you to lose points in your overall rating.
The spoiler below contains a list of dinosaurs and their ratings, as well as some notes on dinosaur enclosures and populations.
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The type of dinosaur dictates what dinosaurs you can keep together:
- All herbivores
- One species of large carnivore and one species of small carnivore
- One species of small carnivore with armoured or giant herbivores
- One species of large carnivore with giant herbivores
Having two (or more) species of carnivores of the same size in the same enclosure will cause them to fight.
Keep in mind the population and social requirements of the dinosaurs; it is a good idea to have one large enclosure with 20+ dinosaurs and a small one with 5 - 10 dinosaurs.
The required rating for 5 stars is different for each island. I had 5 stars at:
- Isla Matanceros: 1000
- Isla Muerta: 1500
- Isla Tacaño: 2000
- Isla Pena: 2000
- Isla Sorna: 2500
- Isla Nublar: 2500
Facility RatingYou have to accommodate and entertain all of the guests to your island, as well as keep them safe. The more satisfied they are with the facilities, the greater your rating will be.
Safety- Shelter Protection: This is based on the coverage of your emergency shelters. Place the shelters so that they cover as many hotels, viewing galleries, viewing platforms and gyrostations as possible.
- Guest Injuries: This will stay low as long as dinosaurs stay in their enclosures: if they do break out, activate the shelters as soon as possible to minimise guest deaths. If guests do die, this stat will recover over time.
Capacity- Operational Hotels: The more guests you have, the more hotels you need. You should have at least 1 hotel on each island. If the summary screen states that you only have "Okay Capacity", press
on one of your hotels and check the "Park Overcrowding" stat - if this is over about 10%, then you should build another hotel.
- Another way to increase capacity is to increase the number of staff in your amenities. Press
on any guest building, press
to go to the "Manage" tab, scroll down to the "Manage Staff" option and press
. You can now adjust the slider to increase or decrease the number of staff in the building. This will increase the number of guests that can use the building. For example, a Gift Shop might have 240/240 guests, but increasing the staff may increase that to 320/435 guests. Do note that upkeep will increase with more staff,
so be sure to increase prices to cover that cost.
Guest SatisfactionThis is based on dinosaur visibility, transport rating, and the amenity (food, drink, fun and shopping) ratings.
- Dinosaur Visibility: Ensure that viewing platforms and galleries cover most of the enclosure. Place feeders close to the galleries so that dinosaurs congregate in front of the galleries.
- Transport Rating: This is based on walking distance between hotels and amenities, including monorail coverage. Try to have one main path that goes across the entire island, with smaller paths branching off of this and connecting to the amenities. Have monorail stations connecting hotels and entertainment districts to main dinosaur enclosures.
- Amenity Rating: Each amenity building has a star rating based on the services that it provides. Try to keep a balance of all types close to hotels and enclosures. The most basic setup is to have a Fast-Food and a Gift Shop near all enclosures. Use the management views (the eyeball symbol on the left hand side of the screen) to see what services are in demand and where. The spoiler below lists the services provided by all of the amenity buildings.
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Use this list in conjunction with the satisfaction stat to choose what you should build next. For example, if you notice that the shopping rating is very low, and fun could use a little boost, then you might consider building a Clothes Shop.
Once all ratings are 90% or above, and you have great capacity and safety, you will have 5 stars for the facility rating.
Final Guest and Hotel Count
-Isla Matanceros: 2100+ Guests, 1 Hotel
-Isla Muerta: 5000+ Guests, 2 Hotels
-Isla Tacaño: 8200+ Guests, 4 Hotels
-Isla Pena: 2000+ Guests, 1 Hotel
-Isla Sorna: 12000+ Guests, 7 Hotels
-Isla Nublar: 10000+ Guests, 5 Hotels
Finally, once you have obtained 5 stars in both the Dinosaur Rating and the Facility Rating, you will receive 5 stars for that Island. When you reach 5 stars, there will be a small voiceover by Dr Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). If the rating does later drop to below 5 stars, it will still count towards the achievement, meaning that it will still unlock as long as each island reached 5 stars at least once. Isla Nublar is not required for this achievement, but is required for some of the InGen Database entries.
Once complete, enjoy your successful islands and your 70G achievement.
Other notes and tips:
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-My preferred setup for dinosaur enclosures was to have a single Creation Lab for every two enclosures. Use the fences to create a small area at the exit of the Lab, and use gates to connect this waiting area to the larger enclosures. Manually open the gates when you release a dinosaur and it will move into that pen.
-Generally, I had two herbivore enclosures and one carnivore enclosure. One of the herbivore enclosures was for large population dinos and the other was for small population dinos. In the large one, I generally had Parasaurolophus, Maiasaura, Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus, and in the small one I had Ankylosaurus and Dracorex. For carnivores, I had Giganotosaurus and Deinonychus. Of course, the larger maps do allow for many more enclosures and I did often experiment with different dinosaur types.
-The type of fence that you use for enclosures does not really matter. If a dinosaur has low enough comfort it is wants to break out, it will continue until it breaks out. The only difference in fence types is how long it takes for a dinosaur to actually break through a fence, giving you more time to react. Use the ACU to tranquilise the dino and move it back into the same enclosure, it will stop trying to breakout after.
-If you do still struggle to get 5 stars, you can always come back to the island later, after you have unlocked more buildings and dinos, but you should be able to reach 5 stars with everything that you have unlocked at that point in the career.
-Other people have mentioned closing the park to help with the island capacity, but I never had to do this. Still, if nothing else works, try it.
-Isla Sorna seems to have a glitch where the transport rating can't increase past ~10%. I even deleted the pathways between the main sections and only had monorail connecting everything, and the rating did not increase. Despite this, I hit 5 stars even with the transport rating this low.
Update 11/12/19: Fixed some formatting.
With this game about to come to Games with Gold, please keep in mind that I have not played any of the DLCs for this game, so some of this information may be incorrect. I will probably play them soon and try to update this guide, but in the meantime, if there is anything that is incorrect, please do not hesitate to leave a comment or message me.