Annoyed by Staff buildings

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Guest seem to get annoyed by staffbuildings of facility buildings even they can't see them.
I have placed some under a big path, so they can't see them, but they get annoyed by them.

 

[Agathorn]

I feel like this keeps coming up over and over, but once again staff buildings provide guests with a negative impact based on a sphere around them. It doesn't matter if they can see them or not. It is strictly distance based. In the heat maps there is an overlay that will show it.

 

[Swjosdotschka]

This is, unfortuanetly, a feature and not a bug. Guests in Planet Zoo have x-ray vision, when it comes to staff building, However, the few at animals can be perfect and they describe it just as "okay".

The x-ray vision with staff buildings is really getting on my nerves, to be honest. You spend hours on good scenery and then the radius touches one slight bid on the path, when the facility buildimgs are behind 6 meter wall. -.-

 

[Agathorn]

The radius on the buldings is so small I really honestly don't get why people are complaining about it. would I like it to be different? Sure, but egads people. The radius is like 2 feet or something on most buildings.

That guest path goes right by the buildings with no problem at all. Its not like I had to hide them away in some deep cave or anything.

 

[xTosca]

Yeah, it's a feature, but it's kind of a ridiculously dumb one honestly. They need to either SERIOUSLY decrease the radius at which guests get annoyed by them, and make it horizontal only(i.e. they won't acknowledge it if its above or below them), make it based on viewability, i.e. line of sight, or just get rid of this mechanic altogether. It's an annoying, pointless mechanic that is literally just extra micromanaging and it honestly makes no sense. No one who actually goes to a zoo is going to have their entire experience ruined just because they happened to catch a tiny glimpse of a staff building, honestly.

At the LEAST we should be able to turn it off for sandbox...

 

[xTosca]

The radius on the buldings is so small I really honestly don't get why people are complaining about it. would I like it to be different? Sure, but egads people. The radius is like 2 feet or something on most buildings.

That guest path goes right by the buildings with no problem at all. Its not like I had to hide them away in some deep cave or anything.

See, the thing is, in a lot of the scenario zoos in particular, you have very little building space to be ABLE to keep staff buildings "off to the side" like that and half the time you have to use elevated paths around the zoo, which sometimes need to go above the staff buildings. This issue is specifically pressing in the "Eye of the Taiga" scenario, and it's also a problem in the first Indian Myers' zoo scenario, where there's a transformer placed right by where guests walk through and there is NO WHERE ELSE to put it while still having electricity coverage in that general area.

 

[Agathorn]

See, the thing is, in a lot of the scenario zoos in particular, you have very little building space to be ABLE to keep staff buildings "off to the side" like that and half the time you have to use elevated paths around the zoo, which sometimes need to go above the staff buildings. This issue is specifically pressing in the "Eye of the Taiga" scenario, and it's also a problem in the first Indian Myers' zoo scenario, where there's a transformer placed right by where guests walk through and there is NO WHERE ELSE to put it while still having electricity coverage in that general area.

Ahh fair enough I've only played franchise mode, as the career modes don't interest me.

 

[Kai]

It's honestly just a bizarre mechanic they should get rid of; you see staff buildings constantly when you visit zoos. There might be a fence/gates around things they don't want the public to fiddle with (water tanks, generators, etc). Otherwise they're usually decorated and covered in maps, infomation boards, posters, plants, advertising, etc. It's a zoo not a art gallery/theme park, it's perfectly normal for them to have easy-acess staff buildings right next to the enclosures.

They should at least let us hide the building with fences/plants - they use lots of large bamboo plants as building screens at my local zoo.