- All animals and themes from PZ1 return
- All the new QoL features from PC2 (new paths, foliage brush, that amazing lighting system)
- Fixing old hitbox issues and add the ability to remove hitboxes from items
- Revamp the older animals to bring them up to standard
- New animal personalities and better herding behaviours
- Complete revamp of exhibits (honestly you could restart the exhibit roster from scratch...), make them a modular system which can be linked together... Maybe 1x1x1 blocks as the smallest? But honestly I'd be happy to see even smaller than that. Make it so exhibit animals have space requirements, breeding etc, ability to mix species and such and more customisation with the additional objects. Also ability to remove the walls and ceiling and some different shapes from just squares like triangles, circles, semi-circles etc.
- Flying birds: Larger birds (1m wingspan or more) would be habitat animals that need to be in a covered space (maybe an aviary building system similar to the paths and pools in PC2?) and could fly using certain enrichment items from different points but would otherwise have full interactability. Make smaller birds exhibit animals which allow them to remain fluttery and exhibit more natural looking behaviours even if its loops.
- Fully aquatic species: Fish and other small animals would be in a new version of exhibits which are basically just aquariums, allow for many mixed species and also tunnels. Larger marine animals (sea turtles, cetaceans, manatees, sharks, rays and other larger fish) would be habitat animals in a pool or tank system reminiscent of ZT2. Allow for some fish exhibits to be placed in the ground as ponds potentially?
- Improve the guest and staff AI
- Co-op multiplayer! It would be really fun to build a zoo together.
- Generated zoo maps similar to Zoo Tycoon 2
- Seasons, this would make management a lot more fun.
- More special events for Challenge/Franchise mode to make management more interesting.
- Custom map skirts
- Multiple habitat gates per habitat please!!
- Animal shows! This would be particularly great for flying birds or marine mammals, and would be a sort of stealth way to add "free flight" to some of the larger birds while keeping them as mostly functional habitat species.
- Eggs for birds, reptiles and the platypus - Incubation and such would make management more interesting and different.
- Allow us to fully customise animal stats in sandbox mode.
- All terrain textures on every map.
- More education features and tours for guests.
- Make the iguanas habitat animals please!
PZ2 Features Meta-wishlist
- Thread starter Captain Callum
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Here's my own suggestions although I don't think I need to go into too much detail as I'll be inputting all the data anyway:
- Playgrounds and splash pads for guests
- Carousel rides
- Exhibit box overhaul especially regarding modular customisation
- Habitat iguanas
- Major animal addition to house a variety of flying animals
- Fully aquatic animal mechanics
- All known pc2 features such as path improvements, scaling, lighting, foliage brush
- More fonts and art shapes , especially smaller ones
- Base game custom signs similar to the Australia pack wooden signs
- Horizontal stained wood walls
- More windows and doors, make them see-through
- Elevated null paths
- One way paths
- Improve interior lighting so I don't need 50+ spotlights to have a bright interior
- Nocturnal building panels to block out light
- Disable guest models for franchise users to improve performance
- Disable path snapping for benches and bins
- More realistic zoo props
- Vehicle props
- Transport rides that look like actual transport rides , use the planet coaster models it isn't that hard
- Staff vehicle for quick access to remote parts of the zoo
- Increased emphasis on zoo backstages
- Import my air conditioning props please or at least offer something better than a single low resolution wall unit
- Rework animal and rock hitboxes
- Let us choose terrain paints on map creation
- New map backgrounds, especially an urban city background
- Optional tunnel or road spawner connection for parking lots
- More vehicle spawners like the European bus or boat
- Tall trees, we need really tall trees like the California palm tree
- Animal shows for both exhibit and habitat animals (safe ones of course)
- Increased amount of animal enrichment, including new and worn looks of them
- Big bouncy ball enrichment
- Coop multiplayer , even the pc2 method of coop is better than sharing a file over discord
- Herding behaviours
- Ungulates eat grass and progressively turn the grass into mud (destroys performance but would be so cool)
- Weather that actually affects your zoo more than unhappy guests
- Guests dress for the weather
- Random events and disasters
- Zoo association memberships that hold rare animals behind conservation requirements
- Improved zoo management but don't turn it into a micromanagement simulator
- Turn the trade center into an administration building
- Expand on the walkthrough exhibit allowing multiple species inside - bats, butterflies, sloths, lizards etc
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Let me divide my ideas per category.
Animals:
Habitat:
Barriers:
Facilities:
Construction:
Nature:
Paths:
Terrain:
UI/QOL:
Other:
I often see a feature mentioned such as random events. I'm not too sure how this would work in Sandbox, but I guess it could be fun in different modes. However, as someone studying disaster, I wouldn't really call these events random. If implemented, it would be great if these events depend on the landscape and also your layout of the zoo (i.e. floods will affect mostly lower areas, and are not too extreme if you have sufficient retention bodies and foliage).
Animals:
- Improved traversability (remove the requirement where an animal needs to fit through an opening sideways).
- New behaviour: Tail-hanging for spider monkeys.
- New behaviour: Herding.
- New behaviour: Grazing.
- Introduce a system where sloths can be habitat species.
- No need for 2m or 4m depth for deep-diving of small animals.
- Koalas and giant pandas should be the highest rating.
- Emus should be a walkthrough species.
- Allow exhibit species of the same biome to be kept together.
- Animals have different tolerance for water salinity (see terrain).
- Flying animals: These species can be added to any aviary in your zoo. Aviaries function like exhibits. They can be made either free-form (like Planet Coaster pools) or modular (like Planet Zoo gift shops). There are some default nets/fences, but you can also build your own with construction pieces. Unlike for exhibits, aviaries do need a keeper gate.
- Aquatic animals: These species can be added to any water body in your zoo. Water bodies can either be terrain features or tanks. Tanks function like exhibits. They can be made either free-form (like Planet Coaster pools) or modular (like Planet Zoo gift shops). All tanks have a default glass wall. Neither water bodies, nor tanks need a keeper gate.
Habitat:
- Add invisible food/water bowls.
- Reduce terrain obstruction for habitat items.
- Add firehoses as climbing items.
- Add massive pumpkins as an enrichment item for sun bears and apes.
- Dynamic items: ropes/fire hoses/nets with no set length. Instead, attach two or four ends of the item to certain points in the habitat and have the game work out the size and stiffness of the item.
Barriers:
- Have a barrier item for each construction wall texture.
- Allow multiple habitat gates.
- Have an option to tilt barriers in- or outward of the habitat.
- Underwater tunnels are an in-game feature.
- Allow barriers directly at the path's edge.
- Add a barrier with a faux/natural rock texture.
Facilities:
- Add pools and playgrounds.
- Standard facility 'boxes' like toilets do not need to be 4m high.
- Allow the Jeep transport ride track to be invisible.
- Allow boxless exhibits.
- Allow freeform exhibits (similar to Planet Coaster pools).
- Add smaller exhibit boxes (1x1x1 for invertebrates, 2x2x2 for amphibians). This is still too large, but a big improvement.
- Remove the trade center. Allow us to purchase animals directly into habitats like in ZT2.
- Make signs, donation boxes etc. less cartoonish and smaller.
Construction:
- Add triangular (equilateral and rectangular triangle) versions of each wall panel.
- Remove non-flexicolour duplicates of flexicolour items (i.e. unpainted bamboo, wooden plank wall).
- Add semi-transparent panels to upload our own pictures on the texture of construction items.
- Dynamic items: doors actually open when guests go through them.
- Add null signs, like in Planet Coaster.
- Add items that fully block out light from outside for nocturnal houses.
- For construction pieces, focus on generic zoo items and basic facilities (air-conditioning, fire extinguishers etc.).
- For themed items, include non-animal statues such as the Mythology pieces in Planet Coaster.
- Add items generally found in zoo museums/displays, incl. eggs, taxodermies, fossils, life-size animal replicas.
Nature:
- Add a foliage/rock brush like in Planet Coaster.
- Add flexicolour natural rocks.
- Add common tropical plants incl. traveller's tree, bird-of-paradise, tembusu tree.
Paths:
- Introduce the same path system as in Planet Coaster.
- Add at leats one flexicolour option for all paths.
- Allow using different path railings and kerbs for each path.
- 2m and 3m guest paths are an in-game feature.
- Add invisible elevated paths.
Terrain:
- Add a function where barriers can be used to separate different terrain heights.
- Waterfalls are an in-game terrain feature, like in ZT2.
- Add a salinity slider for water bodies.
UI/QOL:
- Add a zoo map like in ZT2.
- Add an invisibility toggle to temporarily make items of each category (i.e. paths, barriers, foliage, construction items) invisible, like in ZT2.
- Add an option to mirror items or selections of items.
- Add an option to scale items, like in Planet Coaster.
- Add a shortkey for toggling random rotation on and off.
- Add a shortkey for rotating along the world axis.
- Add a 'pick colour' function to the colour menu (i.e. when changing the colour of a selection, you can click on another item and it will take that colour).
Other:
- Include guests with disabilities.
- Add seasonality dynamics: weather changes throughout the year, some animals change their appearance, guests dress for the weather.
- Ambient animals. I believe this is a thing in Planet Coaster. We should really have it too. I'd love to see some squirrels, ducks or lizards running around and birds flying over. Preferably guests would react to it as well. Ideally, ambient species are dependent on the location of your zoo, and I guess in some cases they can be species that we already have in the game, such as water monitors and swans. It will just make the zoo feel so much more alive.
I often see a feature mentioned such as random events. I'm not too sure how this would work in Sandbox, but I guess it could be fun in different modes. However, as someone studying disaster, I wouldn't really call these events random. If implemented, it would be great if these events depend on the landscape and also your layout of the zoo (i.e. floods will affect mostly lower areas, and are not too extreme if you have sufficient retention bodies and foliage).
I want a better subspecies selector so I can for instance select lion as a filter then from there select a subspecies or leave it random. This will ideally help reduce the issues with people getting mad at new subspecies taking animal slots since it will be one animal with essentially skin variants.
Yes i want this as well. We have to push the want for this feature. Not that pushing for desiring animals did anything for birds and primates anyway.
and +1 to this one as well.
+1 to all quoted
Here's my ideas:
Roof's and Floors: Adding a roof and floor of a chosen barrier material to a habitat. Roofs and floors can be added to any section of barrier, and raised or lowered as needed. You can use floors to make habitats that go over paths an easier process. Roofs are necessary for free-flying bird species, and can function as shelter. You can create barrier "pillars" in roofs to raise them or lower them just as you would a barrier section.
Guest Tunnels and Animal tunnels: A selectable option in the barriers tab, attaching these to a barrier piece brings you to a coaster-builder type menu, where you can customize a tunnel that goes through a habitat (in the case of guest tunnels) or outside a habitat (in the case of animal tunnels). A guest tunnel in an aquatic tank creates a shark tunnel. Customizable size.
I have begun to start collecting all the votes to organise them into the tables, I just want to let everyone know that all known planet coaster 2 features such as improved pathing, lighting etc will not be present on the tables. This is simply because we can expect these features to be in a planet zoo sequel anyway.
If anyone thinks we will need voice our opinion over these new features, let me know and I will make a general pc2 features suggestion and tally up all votes for that.
If anyone thinks we will need voice our opinion over these new features, let me know and I will make a general pc2 features suggestion and tally up all votes for that.
I know others have mentioned events for franchise my “better active and alive challenges” is basically akin to events anyway so if you want to merge these that is good for me
I actually want to keep events (others have suggested random events occuring in the zoo) and improved challenges as separate suggestions, they are similar but each have their own unique aspects.
I only got 2
Make custom fences
In the same vain as PC2, where you can build on Rollar Coaster and what not I that you should be able to make your own fence segment, first you pick the length you want the fence and then you start to add scenery to it, finally you just place it down, now you can't change ita length, for example if you make a custom 4 meter fence then you can stretch it to make it a 8 meter fence but instead you would have to place the fences next to each other, this could help make habitats easier to build while looking better, as well as stuff like buildings, you can also attach other fences to to, like the glass and null barrier, so you can create viewing windows for your habitats, among other things, of course you could still use null fences for custom barriers but this gives you another option.
The second one it to make terrain count as a barrier, so if you want to attach to fence to a mountain you can with the hassle of stuff like null fences, the only requirement is the the terrain is at length or higher then the fence.
Make custom fences
In the same vain as PC2, where you can build on Rollar Coaster and what not I that you should be able to make your own fence segment, first you pick the length you want the fence and then you start to add scenery to it, finally you just place it down, now you can't change ita length, for example if you make a custom 4 meter fence then you can stretch it to make it a 8 meter fence but instead you would have to place the fences next to each other, this could help make habitats easier to build while looking better, as well as stuff like buildings, you can also attach other fences to to, like the glass and null barrier, so you can create viewing windows for your habitats, among other things, of course you could still use null fences for custom barriers but this gives you another option.
The second one it to make terrain count as a barrier, so if you want to attach to fence to a mountain you can with the hassle of stuff like null fences, the only requirement is the the terrain is at length or higher then the fence.
I bet this was the main reason why sloths weren't habitat animals, they just ran everywhere just so they wouldn't starve to death. I could imagine it is a larger problem with how the needs system works for habitat animals, a much larger rework around that could address both problems.
Bring all animals up to 2023 standard
Exhibit overhaul, different sizes and shapes of exhibits for different species, more control over design
Herding/Grouping behaviour
Horn/Tusk variety
Zebra on equine rig
climbing for monitors
Overhauled climbing
Animal personalities
Hitboxes improved
Keepers can wade through water so you can make island habitats
Exhibit overhaul, different sizes and shapes of exhibits for different species, more control over design
Herding/Grouping behaviour
Horn/Tusk variety
Zebra on equine rig
climbing for monitors
Overhauled climbing
Animal personalities
Hitboxes improved
Keepers can wade through water so you can make island habitats
I think this is partly the fault of time moving so quickly in PZ. If thongs were slower, our animals might actually get some time to rest lol
I'll use your list for this. The ones not stated here means I'm not in desperate need for them.
- Playgrounds and splash pads for guests YES
- Carousel rides YES
- Exhibit box overhaul especially regarding modular customisation YES
- Habitat iguanas YES
- Major animal addition to house a variety of flying animals YES
- Fully aquatic animal mechanics YES
- All known pc2 features such as path improvements, scaling, lighting, foliage brush YES
- More fonts and art shapes , especially smaller ones YES
- Base game custom signs similar to the Australia pack wooden signs YES
- Horizontal stained wood walls YES
- More windows and doors, make them see-through YES
- Elevated null paths YES
- One way paths YES
- Improve interior lighting so I don't need 50+ spotlights to have a bright interior YES
- Disable path snapping for benches and bins YES
- More realistic zoo props YES
- Vehicle props YES
- Transport rides that look like actual transport rides , use the planet coaster models it isn't that hard. YES
- Staff vehicle for quick access to remote parts of the zoo. YES
- Increased emphasis on zoo backstages. YES
- Import my air conditioning props please or at least offer something better than a single low resolution wall unit. YES
- Rework animal and rock hitboxes. YES
- Let us choose terrain paints on map creation YES
- New map backgrounds, especially an urban city background YES
- Animal shows for both exhibit and habitat animals (safe ones of course) YES
- Increased amount of animal enrichment, including new and worn looks of them YES
- Big bouncy ball enrichment YES
- Herding behaviours YES
- Weather that actually affects your zoo more than unhappy guests YES
- Guests dress for the weather YES
- Random events and disasters YES
- Zoo association memberships that hold rare animals behind conservation requirements YES
- Improved zoo management but don't turn it into a micromanagement simulator YES
- Expand on the walkthrough exhibit allowing multiple species inside - bats, butterflies, sloths, lizards etc YES
35. Slow down pace of time.
36. Fix the climbing system or at least provide feedback on how to set up working custom climbing frames
37. In relation with the above: give us more REALISTIC climbing frames blueprints with different materials.