It has been stated that inbreeding will be a concern players will have to pay attention to, but there has been no information on how we are supposed to prevent our animals from breeding with their relatives or even just another animal that we don't want them to. How do you think we will be able to manage this? Wildlife Park 3 allowed us to sterilize any animal we wanted to prevent overcrowding. I wonder if PZ will also include this or if we will need to use other measures?
Controlling Breeding
- Thread starter floridameerkat
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If you look at the background in this picture, you can see elephants on the other side of the fence. I believe they separated the animals from their siblings or parents to prevent unwanted breeding.
Joël
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I was thinking the same. It seems logical to have contraceptives in a zoo game, because real-life zoo animals often have contraceptives as well for various reasons.
Good thinking!
IRL zoos will separate animals between walls as predicted in the elephant screenshots (usually male / female or breeding pair / non breeding animals separated) with the ability to socialise over the fence. I'm hoping animals in our zoo are able to communicate in this way as well, like vocalising through the barrier, touching noses/trunks/whatever etc.
I don't see why that medical symbol would be a slider if it was anything other than turning contraceptives on/off, personally! I can't think what else it could be to be so important as to be featured on the primary animal information menu (and next to the sex symbol at that ;-) )
I don't see why that medical symbol would be a slider if it was anything other than turning contraceptives on/off, personally! I can't think what else it could be to be so important as to be featured on the primary animal information menu (and next to the sex symbol at that ;-) )
It's not a slider, it's a toggle, left is off, right is on. It's too small to be a slider and it looks exactly like toggles tend to look in mobile interfaces - this type of toggle is easier to interact with than checkboxes on mobile phones with chubby fingers. In this case, it just fits better into the available space than a traditional labeled checkbox.
That's what I meant, my apologies, I'm not very good with technical terms!