if going for a realistic game, please add these features in.
You have herds, please add Alpha's / Leaders.
Animals fight <--- either for territory or dominance, if you have a wolf pack for example, if the alpha gets old, its more likely that a younger wolf will challenge it to become an alpha.
or how male lions will usually fight one another, this will also give players the need to choose releasing the animals to the wild, or even possibly trading with ''other zoo's'' eg, a female lion for a male.
this will help reduce inbreeding with animals + will reduce risk of injury to your animals if they do fight.
Castration? i assume this will be a feature, but to fit it with my points, i think that if there are more males in an enclosure, if only 1 is non-castrated, they shouldn't fight, as they wont need to assert dominance for 'breeding rights' as a lot of animals do in the wild
Herbivore fights <--- its not just carnivores that fight for dominance, i think adding things like bucks / wilder-beast ect fighting by using their horns/ antlers should be a thing for them to assert breeding rights as they would in the wild, it will also make a cool feature for young horned herbivores, as a lot of the time, young males will spar with one another to practice. this is something ive always wanted to see in a zoo management game.
Carnivores can kill Herbivores <--- a lot of zoo games ive ever played, have had this feature, keep it realistic, one of my fave things to do, are to go in free play mode, make a HUGE enclosure, example, Savannah biome, all Savannah animals and watch the animals interact, lions stalking prey, prey running away, lions giving up on the chase, or actually catch them. this will also go sooo well with the herd feature that is in this game, how herd animals will stick together, add a feature to warn for predators maybe as they would in real life?
it would be such a waste to not put these features in the game, an nobody is forcing the people who DONT want it in the game, to use it, its just extremely unrealistic to think you can put lions in with gazelle an them not even think of touching them.
to anyone who says ''this is a zoo management game'' i have read so many suggestions on here, met with 'its a management game, that feature is not needed' eg, visitors being killed (i know this is confirmed to not be added)
but, not all zoo management is sunshine and rainbows, its not just about looking at your cute animals all day.
animals do fight in zoos, even if they are the young of existing zoo residents, you see it a lot with freshly introduced animals, or weaker animals who where previously sick, they get picked on, this is just the way of animals, chimps seem to do it a lot as do lions and tigers.
and personally, if my animals are all going to have individual personality, a lots of needs and a genetic system, im expecting to have a few bad apples. i dont want every personality to be amazing, im hoping for some more aggressive traits too, such as a lion who craves a live kill.
You have herds, please add Alpha's / Leaders.
Animals fight <--- either for territory or dominance, if you have a wolf pack for example, if the alpha gets old, its more likely that a younger wolf will challenge it to become an alpha.
or how male lions will usually fight one another, this will also give players the need to choose releasing the animals to the wild, or even possibly trading with ''other zoo's'' eg, a female lion for a male.
this will help reduce inbreeding with animals + will reduce risk of injury to your animals if they do fight.
Castration? i assume this will be a feature, but to fit it with my points, i think that if there are more males in an enclosure, if only 1 is non-castrated, they shouldn't fight, as they wont need to assert dominance for 'breeding rights' as a lot of animals do in the wild
Herbivore fights <--- its not just carnivores that fight for dominance, i think adding things like bucks / wilder-beast ect fighting by using their horns/ antlers should be a thing for them to assert breeding rights as they would in the wild, it will also make a cool feature for young horned herbivores, as a lot of the time, young males will spar with one another to practice. this is something ive always wanted to see in a zoo management game.
Carnivores can kill Herbivores <--- a lot of zoo games ive ever played, have had this feature, keep it realistic, one of my fave things to do, are to go in free play mode, make a HUGE enclosure, example, Savannah biome, all Savannah animals and watch the animals interact, lions stalking prey, prey running away, lions giving up on the chase, or actually catch them. this will also go sooo well with the herd feature that is in this game, how herd animals will stick together, add a feature to warn for predators maybe as they would in real life?
it would be such a waste to not put these features in the game, an nobody is forcing the people who DONT want it in the game, to use it, its just extremely unrealistic to think you can put lions in with gazelle an them not even think of touching them.
to anyone who says ''this is a zoo management game'' i have read so many suggestions on here, met with 'its a management game, that feature is not needed' eg, visitors being killed (i know this is confirmed to not be added)
but, not all zoo management is sunshine and rainbows, its not just about looking at your cute animals all day.
animals do fight in zoos, even if they are the young of existing zoo residents, you see it a lot with freshly introduced animals, or weaker animals who where previously sick, they get picked on, this is just the way of animals, chimps seem to do it a lot as do lions and tigers.
and personally, if my animals are all going to have individual personality, a lots of needs and a genetic system, im expecting to have a few bad apples. i dont want every personality to be amazing, im hoping for some more aggressive traits too, such as a lion who craves a live kill.