I don't know if this is technically possible but I would greatly appreciate an option to "disable running" in sandbox. We can already disable defecating, fighting and escaping. I would like to be able to disable running as well. Don't get me wrong, the running animations are cool and I'm glad they are in the game. But I like realism and I've almost never seen a giraffe, a hippo or a lion run in its enclosure IRL. When I look at my savannah exhibit and I see half the animals running as crazy, it breaks the immersion a little bit for me.
Disable running
- Thread starter TheHippoGirl
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Yes. Animals run way too much and too frequently. I think running for some animals should occur in specific circumstances like chasing something or playing with another animal or object or to scare away some other animal, etc. The fact that they just randomnly start running around without a reason is what is annoying.
Some smaller more active animals like red pandas should run more often while large rather sedentary animals like hippos should not run much at all.
I would be ok with herd animals running if they actually do it in the context of a herd moving but like you said in a mixes savanah exhibit for instance you just have a bunch of animals scatter around no forming a cohesive herd with their own species and running around like crazies haha