Automation for vivariums?

[_Luis_]

Hi, everybody.

I've posted this post in the Steam Community before, but I thought it might fit in here as well.

I recently started Planet Zoo and I totally love it.

Vivariums are a very good and fast source of income for the start, but unfortunately I still find the management extremely complicated.
Click on each vivarium, click through each animal, check its values, click on the vivarium again, click on the next animal.
I have to pause the game every time I go through my 16 vivariums, so that I don't lose my overview in the park.
Isn't there a way to get a faster and better overview, so that I can filter the animals quickly and effectively ? (e.g. preset gene data, age, sex and simply give surplus animals to the trade automatically)

The problem of inbreeding is also very complex.
To avoid mating is almost impossible.
Especially with frogs, spiders and scorpions, which produce many babies at once.

If there is no simple implementation for this, I very much hope that the developers will include some solution in the next patches.

Greetings
Luis

 

[TFG21]

The problem of inbreeding is also very complex.
To avoid mating is almost impossible.
Especially with frogs, spiders and scorpions, which produce many babies at once.

I've found inbreeding is not much of a factor with the more prolific breeders like you have listed, I usually just let them breed, keep the best, and keep going. I always end up with all gold animals eventually this way.

I agree about the rest of your post, I find slowing the animal aging down helps a lot with management, I still need to pause every once in a while to do a big sell off though

 

[Eyrax]

I've found inbreeding is not much of a factor with the more prolific breeders like you have listed, I usually just let them breed, keep the best, and keep going. I always end up with all gold animals eventually this way.

I agree about the rest of your post, I find slowing the animal aging down helps a lot with management, I still need to pause every once in a while to do a big sell off though

I let them also breed as they like. I don't care of inbreeding in the vivariums.

@_Luis_ I also pause the game. But then I go into the animal list of the zoo overview and check the animals I want to sell and send them to the trading center all at once.

 

[LN]

Exhibits are not the place to be breeding imo. Goes to fast and there isn't really that much to gain.

Other than that, once I placed a exhibit and set all it's parameters, I hardly have to check after that, only when a animal died and needs to be replaced. I use birth control on all my exhibits.

 

[AlexVonHumbug]

Exhibits are not the place to be breeding imo. Goes to fast and there isn't really that much to gain.

Other than that, once I placed a exhibit and set all it's parameters, I hardly have to check after that, only when a animal died and needs to be replaced. I use birth control on all my exhibits.

but sometimes, certain exhibit-animals are not availabel in the market, so you have to breed some, for future use.

 

[LN]

but sometimes, certain exhibit-animals are not availabel in the market, so you have to breed some, for future use.

I just pick a different one when that is the case. But I can see what you mean.

 

[DrBurrito]

Some sort of automation would be useful in my opinion. Things like sending offspring to the trade center, automating contraceptives for offspring, keeping the population the same by stocking the exhibit with extras from the trade center when it falls under a certain figure. Small quality of life improvements using tick-off options from the exhibit menu. Since this would make things a lot easier, one intentional trade-off could be that only with each keeper visit would these changes take effect. If you don't have enough keepers or proper workzones, your animals would still inbreed or die off leaving an empty exhibit with education items reset.