How to not get bored in between DLC releases?
- Thread starter Orkan
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I can understand that, this is the largest period of time between DLCs. Here’s a few ideas:
- Make one off builds. Start a new map, build just one enclosure being whatever you want. It takes the pressure off with working staff and management if that’s something you don’t like as much as just building.
- Give yourself a challenge. Put 20 random animals on a wheel, spin it, make a habitat for that one. Or you could be more unique and do something like a certain building theme.
- One I strongly recommend is to make a small zoo using a DLC you may have overlooked or don’t use much. I see a lot of people not like the Twilight pack but if you actually dig deeper and use the pieces more often, they’re actually quite useful.
- Big House Projects. Tropical House, Primate House, Cat House, or just a house full of the animals you don’t use a lot of. It’s really fun at least for me to build a giant house with indoor and outdoor areas for a class of animal. That way you have the motivation to finish it.
- Final one, instead of building a zoo you could make a tour using the boat or Safari jeep.
Try to do something completely different. For example, try to recreate your house in the game, or try to make blueprints of things that you can use later (custom barriers or climbing frames, for example).
You can also use one of the maps from the career mode. For example there's one quite small based on an island. It's a challenge to build a zoo in such a small area now that we got so many animals.
You can also use one of the maps from the career mode. For example there's one quite small based on an island. It's a challenge to build a zoo in such a small area now that we got so many animals.
I've been doing something like that. Last year, I started a series of zoos exclusively featuring animals that start with a certain letter of the alphabet. For example, the A Zoo would have alligators, aardvarks, and antelopes. The B Zoo would have bears, bats, badgers, buffalo, etc. I then would keep going through each letter until I reached the end, but I had to pause the project because of the continuously incoming DLCs. I didn't have enough room to put in armadillos in the A Zoo.
in between tropical and arid, I was starting to get bored and I made habitats for animals not in game which showed I was getting impatient.
Arid dlc animals did for me: obviously all went to my North Africa zoo. Most animals I don’t have use for with some exceptions. I was able to make a camel habitat in my Australian zoo, sand cats for my feline zoo and my Indian zoo, porcupines for my European zoo and the viper for my snake house at my reptile zoo.
Now continue to look at areas of my other zoos that haven’t gotten any rep this year and am still hoping future dlcs will go multi continental.
I had thought of making potential petting zoo areas in some zoos but if that never happens then I will look back and think what was the point.
A while back I made custom what I thought would be aviaries and now just act as filler locations.
Every now and then I will give some retouches on my existing zoos but I have to be motivated to.
Arid dlc animals did for me: obviously all went to my North Africa zoo. Most animals I don’t have use for with some exceptions. I was able to make a camel habitat in my Australian zoo, sand cats for my feline zoo and my Indian zoo, porcupines for my European zoo and the viper for my snake house at my reptile zoo.
Now continue to look at areas of my other zoos that haven’t gotten any rep this year and am still hoping future dlcs will go multi continental.
I had thought of making potential petting zoo areas in some zoos but if that never happens then I will look back and think what was the point.
A while back I made custom what I thought would be aviaries and now just act as filler locations.
Every now and then I will give some retouches on my existing zoos but I have to be motivated to.
First month - focus on playing and watching new DLC video. Second month - focus on some other games like pokemon, wow, digimon, and AOE3. Third month watching speculations.
I have a bunch of franchise works-in-progress to go back to, and participate in the community contests. Sometimes I try to build a habitat/structure exactly as it is IRL.
Lots of good ideas here already:
Using animals that you haven't used before or very much. I doing that in this Summer/Fall lull time.. For an added challenge, research them to completion (though I understand that may get boring)
Go back to older zoos and fill out some habitats or foliage in zoos. If you're anything like me, you have some zoos you haven't revisited in a year or more.
Challenge yourself by building something we don't have in game, that you would want. (Prior to the Europe DLC I made my own blueprint Bavarian set)
Make a new themed zoo, in a biome or continent or focus of something you wouldn't normally do.
The "Spin The Wheel" suggestion is a good one if you want the planning taken out of your hands. For less of a challenge, it could be done in Sandbox where money is unlimited.
Since I've decided to not create any more new Franchise zoos until the game is completely finished official support-wise, I see a greater focus on making existing zoos better, rather than opening yet another zoo with a handful of animals that I go back to every month or two. Even with that, I still have about 35 franchise zoos, so I'm not hurting for projects. Of course, my play time has been extremely reduced in the last year, but getting two puppies at the same time (same litter) will definitely do that to free time.
Using animals that you haven't used before or very much. I doing that in this Summer/Fall lull time.. For an added challenge, research them to completion (though I understand that may get boring)
Go back to older zoos and fill out some habitats or foliage in zoos. If you're anything like me, you have some zoos you haven't revisited in a year or more.
Challenge yourself by building something we don't have in game, that you would want. (Prior to the Europe DLC I made my own blueprint Bavarian set)
Make a new themed zoo, in a biome or continent or focus of something you wouldn't normally do.
The "Spin The Wheel" suggestion is a good one if you want the planning taken out of your hands. For less of a challenge, it could be done in Sandbox where money is unlimited.
Since I've decided to not create any more new Franchise zoos until the game is completely finished official support-wise, I see a greater focus on making existing zoos better, rather than opening yet another zoo with a handful of animals that I go back to every month or two. Even with that, I still have about 35 franchise zoos, so I'm not hurting for projects. Of course, my play time has been extremely reduced in the last year, but getting two puppies at the same time (same litter) will definitely do that to free time.
Believe it or not, in my case, I'm not getting bored of PZ by putting together my new desktop
Just thinking about how amazing and smooth the game will be is exciting me
Just thinking about how amazing and smooth the game will be is exciting me
I like to find my weaknesses and turn them into strengths.
Have ugly fences? Make a zoo out of completely custom made by me fencing, with only the null barrier.
Get frustrated with building? I go and research irl zoos and figure out how to replicate interesting buildings. Today I built a passable Balinese stone temple without using the workshop.
Struggle with filling out gaps and blank spaces? Find creative ways to fill them out with custom sculptures, seating areas, interesting educational items, planters, gardens ect.
Fearing foliage work? Get a master's in landscape and design ( I joke, but I did get a textbook)
I love looking at habitat inspo on zoo lex and zoo chat and Pinterest, and then coming up with cool lifelike designs.
Have ugly fences? Make a zoo out of completely custom made by me fencing, with only the null barrier.
Get frustrated with building? I go and research irl zoos and figure out how to replicate interesting buildings. Today I built a passable Balinese stone temple without using the workshop.
Struggle with filling out gaps and blank spaces? Find creative ways to fill them out with custom sculptures, seating areas, interesting educational items, planters, gardens ect.
Fearing foliage work? Get a master's in landscape and design ( I joke, but I did get a textbook)
I love looking at habitat inspo on zoo lex and zoo chat and Pinterest, and then coming up with cool lifelike designs.