The walkthrough criteria is more, "should guests be afraid of this animal?" than, "can guests hurt this animal?". In game, if guests walk into a habitat with a non-walkthrough animal, they run out terrified. I don't know about you but platypuses aren't exactly what I'd call an intimidating animal, even with their venom.
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The game already gives species 3 reaction types to guests (shy, neutral, confident). The walkthrough compatibility's only function is to tell guests if they should run away from an animal. Shy walkthrough animals are still discouraged from being in walkthrough habitats due to high stress. But it makes no sense to cower in fear from a platypus.
My argument is that the system already factors for that element.
Not that I’m necessarily disagreeing, but guests in Planet Zoo have an odd set of fears — for example, they find fennec foxes rather cute but run in terror from arctic foxes. Perhaps they fear their dominance over the arctic tundra….
For myself, I like having more walk-through animals because it opens up more options for habitat design.
Yes, if animal is shy. What I'm arguing however is for size to be a factor.
If animal is under size X it should automatically be unfit for walkthrough
The devs could just have all small walkthrough animals be shy (unless there's reasons for otherwise). It gives the same effect.
Then breach the realism a bit to make it check out. The walkthrough trait is not at all meant to protect animals, it's entirely about protecting guests. It's the guest tolerance that protects the animals, which is what should be considered here.
So it turns out platypus are walkthrough
Even though I learned from all of you, it seems PZ didn’t 100% do their homework
Regardless mine will not be walkthrough as my animals get too stressed out
Even though I learned from all of you, it seems PZ didn’t 100% do their homework
Regardless mine will not be walkthrough as my animals get too stressed out