Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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I must be odd, the only dream I've had about planet zoo is where I'm begging frontier to make a 0.25 metre metal rod 
Please frontier I neeeeeed smaller pieces
Please frontier I neeeeeed smaller pieces
*it hasn’t come true
Bat Eared fox FTW!
I like your delusional optimism.
There's no lethal option in the JWEs, and they're pretty close to fictional animals. I've some doubts they'd be willing to explore it, even if it's limited to Domestic animals for food.
Making a taxidermy of a dead animal might be interesting, my local museum's taxidermies mostly come from the local zoo, but it is probably a bit morbid. Also a bit on the trophy hunter side of things, which is a little against conservation.
If real zoos slaughter giraffes, zebras and antelopes to feed their lions and make bad press, why shouldnt we?
There is the matter of mixed press in real life. "Zoo game lets you kill your healthy animals", just from that potential headline, real zoos probably aren't going to openly work with them, even if it is something they practice. There'd also be boycotts by a whole bunch of organisations, but I feel like that's probably not new.
The actual practice of Zoothanasia seems mostly just in the zoo's interest, rather than the species, so it's kind of always going to be controversial.
All in all, it doesn't seem like it's worth the trouble for them, but you never know.
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Isnt Monkey a supposed to be one aswell?
the steam files have yet to be updated which usually mean we are still multiple weeks out so im saying no to a march release and console release would be taking the prime easter sales spot anyways. It will likley be sometime in april but outside of its 100% before june we know nothing.
I love the idea of having a self sufficient zoo with the ability to grow the animals food slaughtering would be a bit different and challenging as it goes against many of the ideals of the game. making acquiring food for animals an actual management decision would make the game feel much more complex like how in real life koalas have to have dedicated groves of eucalyptus have that be a decision we have to make when feeding the animals whether to have that grove ourselves or pay extra for the food to be imported.
Canonically, apparently. But he's one who actually looks more like a Hanuman langur!
I think the idea of breeding your own lifestock as part of the management is an interesting one. But i feel one runs into alot of problems thinking about it a little more. Quick and uneducated math with numbers i found in a 2 min google search: The average pig yields about 65kg of meat and a lion needs 3,5kg of meat a day, so a zoo with 5 lions would need about 2 pigs per week for the lions alone.
So in game that would lead to multiple options:
A: You need to establish one nightmare of a mass meat production, to safe space and money to actually build your zoo
B: You need to dedicate like half of your zoo to breeding lifestock in an ethical way
C: Spend mad money buying the meat to feed your animals, since id would need be way more expensive than breeding your own to make going through the whole thing even worth in the first place.
D: Hope the whole system is tuned way down so a single pig can sustain your whole zoo for a while
Option A is out of the question, i think everybody can agree on that. It would feel completely out of place in Planet Zoo and would certainly summon an outcry in the player base.
Option B i also cant really see happening since i dont think that most people are into that or looking for doing it in a zoo game
C i guess could work and would be probably what most people would do. Which leaves D as the by a long mile most likely one.
Although im still pretty convinced that Frontier wouldnt add a system like that in the first place and i think the current way where the food is conjured out of thin air works best for a Zoo game.
Plus starting with something like this would lead you down a rabbit hole of also breeding feeder mice, rats and insects as food for various small animals like snakes, meerkats and lizards ontop of producing all the veggies and greens needed to sustain the whole lifestock operation and to feed the herbivorous zoo animals.
Whoops, got a bit carried away and decided to start an own thread for it.
Here ya go
forums.frontier.co.uk
Here ya go
How a ressource system could be implemented to improve planet zoo as a management game
So going down the rabbit hole again, planet zoo presents itself as a management game with next to no management. The only real management currently in the game that isnt building related would be genes and breeding and i would use that system as a guideline. To be clear, i got not much knowledge...
Cheetahs from Wilhelma (Stuttgart), the first one is orangutan from Ouwehands (Utrecht), and the last two Madrid yes
They are even reaching Spain now. Final round of invasive species in Europe: raccoon Vs Canada goose Vs golden jackal
There is this beautiful thing called it being a game so some resources can be manipulated such as the amount of meat each pig or the amount of food a lion need but yes this system would need to be very unrealistic in terms of output in order to be playable.
This idea would be so fun but it is almost a whole game in of itself still the idea of getting cheaper feed by growing it yourself does seem nice and would help the middle of nowhere vibes of the zoos feel more appropriate.
This whole idea reminds me of lets build a zoo a game that has both a morality system and the ability to produce food for the zoo.Whoops, got a bit carried away and decided to start an own thread for it.
Here ya go
How a ressource system could be implemented to improve planet zoo as a management game
So going down the rabbit hole again, planet zoo presents itself as a management game with next to no management. The only real management currently in the game that isnt building related would be genes and breeding and i would use that system as a guideline. To be clear, i got not much knowledge...
Honestly a whole game in itself is what the management side needs as it really isnt its own part of the game yet.