Guest break in. How would you handle it? Dare to think about it?

[Spiderhawk]

Hey everyone, today I wanted discuss a rather a terrible topic of guests breaking into zoo habitats. There have been several break ins by either dumb ass guests and irresponsible parents. Zoos have handled their incidents differently. Examples include
Cincinnati zoos Harambe the gorilla was shot to protect the boy who made his way into the habitat. This incident stirred up controversy as it called in question should gorillas be in zoos, better protection protocols be in place, intense internet harassment was made to the mom and of course many memes were created memorializing Harambe.
Pittsburgh Zoo, a mom held her 2 year old over the railing really high, the kid lunged over, fell onto a protective net, bounced off and was quickly mauled to death by African painted dogs. The zoo defended their dogs but eventually moved the dogs to other zoos in favor of cheetahs.
Brookfield Zoo a kid fell into a gorilla habitat, a female gorilla picked up the kid and brought it to the keepers entrance. Nobody died and fined were placed.
Other examples of adult guests getting too close of looks at tigers and getting out on their own, swimming up to polar bears requiring keeper intervention (no deaths) and trying to hug pandas.
I personally think if you break into a habitat you should be fined and I would value the animals well being above all else.
Of course this should be optional, but would you want a sandbox feature of occasional break ins? Where you would have to set policy’s on how break ins are handled and then see the aftermath that can affect your zoos regardless of how they are handled?
Or absolutely keep this off the table and never considered

 

[Frowerssx]

It's sad to see that most of your examples involve kids because there parents were being stupid and not keeping them close or safe.

However, I've personally never thought about this option as it would be rather annoying to keep dealing with it. I kinda like the idea that we only have to worry about the animals escaping as if guests could get in it might mean we will have to change our enclosures all the time.

Sometimes I like to have a over view of my tigers for example but if we had this option and a guest decided to jump in for cuddles, I would have to change the enclosure I worked over an hour on even though the tigers can't get out and that would be so frustrating. So it's a no for me, I wouldn't use this option and turn it off if it was a thing.

 

[Frowerssx]

However, that doesn't mean I don't like the idea of animal break outs causing fines, negative frame, injury to guests, zoo closer until safe again and even guests sewing your zoo if an animal escapes because that would be technology be my fault (If the game doesn't glitch out) because I may have forgotten to put climb proof on the log barriers. Or the barriers were to small or a fennec fox squeezed between two rocks because I forgot how small they are.

However, I doubt that this function will come into the games as like many fans of this game have already said, Planet Zoo isn't about animal escapes which causes serious problems (sadly). That does means I miss the days off Zoo Tycoon where escaped lions would eat or cause injuries to your guests because that is a realistic feature I do miss. Like I know having deadly escaped animals would probably make the game a PG 13 or something similar but kids will play it, see that escaped animals won't do anything but run around while the guests are perfectly fine. I mean, what sort of message is that to kids? Its games, films and other social media like this that causes people to think that animals in a zoo are not deadly.

 

[Cocolori]

However, that doesn't mean I don't like the idea of animal break outs causing fines, negative frame, injury to guests, zoo closer until safe again and even guests sewing your zoo if an animal escapes because that would be technology be my fault (If the game doesn't glitch out) because I may have forgotten to put climb proof on the log barriers. Or the barriers were to small or a fennec fox squeezed between two rocks because I forgot how small they are.

However, I doubt that this function will come into the games as like many fans of this game have already said, Planet Zoo isn't about animal escapes which causes serious problems (sadly). That does means I miss the days off Zoo Tycoon where escaped lions would eat or cause injuries to your guests because that is a realistic feature I do miss. Like I know having deadly escaped animals would probably make the game a PG 13 or something similar but kids will play it, see that escaped animals won't do anything but run around while the guests are perfectly fine. I mean, what sort of message is that to kids? Its games, films and other social media like this that causes people to think that animals in a zoo are not deadly.

I don't disagree with much of this except the bit about it being realistic that escaped dangerous animals would usually run around eating guests. Large predators are actually less likely to cause injury especially if they have been recently fed because most large predators that get out will go find some cover and hide. In fact most animals, however used to people they are, are likely to be more scared and cautious in an environment they don't know so unless guests are cornering them or they are stuck in an enclosed area they are much more likely to run and hide. If that is a rhino, an elephant or a buffalo then it causes loads more issues because if they stampede they will kill people by accident.

 

[LN]

People who act in the real world like that are just stupid, i dont get why they would take such risks.

id like to think the peeps in the world of Planet Zoo (Coaster) are not irresponsible though, only bad in pathfinding.

Animals escaping and mauling guests, I don't need, and i think is not that realistic for the reasons Cocolori states.

If they put it in the game, fine as well.

 

[Spiderhawk]

In my line of work I have seen people take unnecessary risks climbing too high despite warnings on boats and habitats.
I would like to see someone run into a bison habitat only for them to get charged at and sent flying out of the habitat.

 

[PeppyPepp]

Don't expect anything gruesome in Planet Zoo. This game is family/kid friendly so anything like that is never going to be added.

If you visit a zoo, you must know there are rules to follow, and if you feel like climbing over fences, then there will be consequences, and sometimes that means injury or even death. If a person, for example, climbs into a habitat of a tiger and then manages to survive, they should definitely be fined/jailed, and the animal should be left alone. You can't provoke a predator and then cry about it later when the predator does its predator thing.