Hey guys,
I have a lot of ideas for a set of build items that would bring some more realistic zoo design to Planet Zoo.
Keeper buggy: it would be amazing if this were a functional item. The buggy is placed next to a keeper hut. The keeper makes food as usual, then brings the buckets out to the buggy, loads them into the back and drives to the enclosure. Buggies travel along staff paths and can clip through staff if need be. The buggy could be parked outside the enclosure. Keeper gets out, grabs buckets and delivers food as usual. Of course, if this is too much to implement, a decor piece would do as well. Example images:
Modern signage: I feel like we have a very small amount of signage in game. We could do with having more variety - especially if we could upload images into these signs (we could take our own animal photos in game to load into the image space of a sign. Also, could we please have a font that is similar to the "National Zoo" in these images? Something modern and sleek. I particularly like the tall banners, the zoo map (even if it's a generic image), the third image down is the type of customisable thing I mentioned above. I love the flat panel in the fourth image, very lifelike piece.
Back of house structures: This is super important and we really don't have enough of these right now! I'm talking about warning signs, electrical boxes, animal gates like the one pictured in image 2 (even if they're not functional), pipes, holding pen building pieces like thick steel poles with cables in image 3. Locks, latches, levers. It would be really awesome to have boxes of fruit/produce/meat to decorate our staff areas with, as well as buckets, brooms and rakes and wheelbarrows.
The first thing you do every day as a keeper is grab your cleaning kit: rake, broom, wheelbarrow and get to work. Then it's food prep and a lot of buckets! You spend a lot of time in back of house - areas that rely on a lot of levered gates to allow animal access, or block them out of areas as needed. Almost every enclosure has a back of house night den or holding pen for housing animals at night, putting them away to clean their enclosure, or bringing them in close for vet checks/vaccinations/birthing/training, etc. It would be great to be able to build these areas more accurately in game.
Added gameplay: In addition to a lot of cleaning, animal training/conditioning and food prep, a keeper's day also involves keeper talks. We could really use this in Planet Zoo. We could put up a little podium and maybe have a dedicated guide or educator to come and stand and give talks, similar to the mascots function in Planet Coaster (our keepers are already too busy and overworked). It would massively add to guest education, and guests would actively travel to them.
I have a lot of ideas for a set of build items that would bring some more realistic zoo design to Planet Zoo.
Keeper buggy: it would be amazing if this were a functional item. The buggy is placed next to a keeper hut. The keeper makes food as usual, then brings the buckets out to the buggy, loads them into the back and drives to the enclosure. Buggies travel along staff paths and can clip through staff if need be. The buggy could be parked outside the enclosure. Keeper gets out, grabs buckets and delivers food as usual. Of course, if this is too much to implement, a decor piece would do as well. Example images:
Modern signage: I feel like we have a very small amount of signage in game. We could do with having more variety - especially if we could upload images into these signs (we could take our own animal photos in game to load into the image space of a sign. Also, could we please have a font that is similar to the "National Zoo" in these images? Something modern and sleek. I particularly like the tall banners, the zoo map (even if it's a generic image), the third image down is the type of customisable thing I mentioned above. I love the flat panel in the fourth image, very lifelike piece.
Back of house structures: This is super important and we really don't have enough of these right now! I'm talking about warning signs, electrical boxes, animal gates like the one pictured in image 2 (even if they're not functional), pipes, holding pen building pieces like thick steel poles with cables in image 3. Locks, latches, levers. It would be really awesome to have boxes of fruit/produce/meat to decorate our staff areas with, as well as buckets, brooms and rakes and wheelbarrows.
The first thing you do every day as a keeper is grab your cleaning kit: rake, broom, wheelbarrow and get to work. Then it's food prep and a lot of buckets! You spend a lot of time in back of house - areas that rely on a lot of levered gates to allow animal access, or block them out of areas as needed. Almost every enclosure has a back of house night den or holding pen for housing animals at night, putting them away to clean their enclosure, or bringing them in close for vet checks/vaccinations/birthing/training, etc. It would be great to be able to build these areas more accurately in game.
Added gameplay: In addition to a lot of cleaning, animal training/conditioning and food prep, a keeper's day also involves keeper talks. We could really use this in Planet Zoo. We could put up a little podium and maybe have a dedicated guide or educator to come and stand and give talks, similar to the mascots function in Planet Coaster (our keepers are already too busy and overworked). It would massively add to guest education, and guests would actively travel to them.
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