Lions vs Tigers

[LionKing94]

Hello everyone. I may not have Planet Zoo yet, but I have been watching many playthroughs of it and it is amazing! The animals are so realistic! With that being said, I noticed one huge problem. When you put a tiger with a lion, you would expect them to fight each other for dominance. But instead, the tiger immediately kills the lion in a very anticlimactic way. I'm sorry, but I know for a fact that the lion would not go down without a fight. I believe that Frontier should install the big cat fighting animation for the lions vs the tigers. I think everyone can agree that we would to see these guys actually throw down to see who's the biggest and baddest cat.

Thanks!

 

[paul78]

Your absolutely right a fight between a lion and a tiger could go either way. Most experts favor the tiger some the lion. By tiger I mean bengals and Siberian btw. In game it should go either way also. This topic lion vs tiger is actually a pretty heated debate in forums and YouTube. A lot of videos actually show tigers fleeing from lions. I think tigers are misunderstood for doing this. In captivity the instinctual behavior of these two are totally different. Lions are social so lions like to assert themselves in a social structure. Tigers on the other hand are not so instead of fighting for food for example which lion hierarchy commonly does tigers will usually wait. Caney Zoo in Kansas kept a big Bengal and male lion and lioness together with the tiger actually seeming to be the dominant most of the time. Me personally more often then not in a all out fight would favor the tiger most of the time. Tigers have a weight advantage but usually because the lion is taller and the mane they can look bigger. Anyway totally agree in game it should go either way with fighting animations. I actually seen a video on Reddit yesterday with a croc doing the same to a lion lol. Poor lions are a punching bag in this game but in real life lions hold their own against almost anything.

 

[Firestar97]

It would be awesome if it would be like that. I would also like a Death Roll Animation for the Crocodiles

 

[Espinal]

Hello everyone. I may not have Planet Zoo yet, but I have been watching many playthroughs of it and it is amazing! The animals are so realistic! With that being said, I noticed one huge problem. When you put a tiger with a lion, you would expect them to fight each other for dominance. But instead, the tiger immediately kills the lion in a very anticlimactic way. I'm sorry, but I know for a fact that the lion would not go down without a fight. I believe that Frontier should install the big cat fighting animation for the lions vs the tigers. I think everyone can agree that we would to see these guys actually throw down to see who's the biggest and baddest cat.

Thanks!

There are in fact a lot of animal predation and fear that doesn't make sense at all. Lion and tiger is one of them. You place a single tiger in an habitat with two dozen lions, it will kill every single one of them with all the lions running away until they all die.
Other examples that don't make sense are baby turtles being invincible, crocodiles dying way too easy, polar bears killing brown bears. So many examples.

 

[FoxyDee]

Tbh, I am not sure how many people place different carnivore species together in their games (and why), but I would rather if the dev time would be spent on inaccuracies that are visible to everyone (for example bactrian camels, tortoises, bisons being too small, etc.) than inaccuracies that most people wont even know of.

Just my two cents though.

 

[shirandhak]

Tbh, I am not sure how many people place different carnivore species together in their games (and why), but I would rather if the dev time would be spent on inaccuracies that are visible to everyone (for example bactrian camels, tortoises, bisons being too small, etc.) than inaccuracies that most people wont even know of.

Just my two cents though.

You are so right! First things first. And at first the devs should look into real game-issues. If people decide to (ab)use the game for a battle royal mode, it's ok with me, but please keep in mind, that this game is about zoos and not about fighting arenas and therefore all other animations and game features are far more important.

 

[Swjosdotschka]

It's a Zoo Simulation. Thankfully zoos are not allowed to provoke animal fights, so therefore very few zoos do even take the risk of keeping lions and tigres, two species that will never meet in the wild, together. There is no respectable zoo I know of that keeps those animals in one habitat.
Plus, when they fight when brought together, they don't fight for "dominance". That's the "uuhh, who is stronger" thought humans like to have. They fight for resources, like space and food. For their areal.

And as others have stated correctly, we don't need no "accuracy" on this subject, as it isn't important in a zoo anyway and this game has bigger things to fix.

 

[LionKing94]

I understand what everyone is saying. I know that these two big cats would never meet in real life. And I definitely prefer seeing the animals living peacefully in beautiful enclosures. But I still think that it's wrong that a tiger would "hunt" a lion in this game. That doesn't make any sense at all. All I'm saying is that the lions should realistically defend themselves against the tigers with the fighting animations. But you guys are right that the game devs should focus on the real game issues first.

 

[macronecu]

I understand what everyone is saying. I know that these two big cats would never meet in real life. And I definitely prefer seeing the animals living peacefully in beautiful enclosures. But I still think that it's wrong that a tiger would "hunt" a lion in this game. That doesn't make any sense at all. All I'm saying is that the lions should realistically defend themselves against the tigers with the fighting animations. But you guys are right that the game devs should focus on the real game issues first.

I understand what you are saying there.

Even though people are right that it's a zoo simulation game and animals that can kill each other shouldn't be placed in the same enclosure, we shouldn't also forget that this is a game feature that was made deliberately. If they didn't care, they wouldn't have made like 7 tiers to determine animal interactions. So if this already exists, it should at least be accurate.

 

[Firestar97]

I understand what you are saying there.

Even though people are right that it's a zoo simulation game and animals that can kill each other shouldn't be placed in the same enclosure, we shouldn't also forget that this is a game feature that was made deliberately. If they didn't care, they wouldn't have made like 7 tiers to determine animal interactions. So if this already exists, it should at least be accurate.

Realistic Interspecies Battles do also have their Place in a Zoo Simulation. It could happen that a Animal escapes into another Enclosure (it only happened once with Animals that are dangerous to each other after the Beta in one of my Zoos but not every Zoo is built the same way) and it would be nice to be able to save both Animals even if at least one of them will be badly injured.

 

[Casperite]

I think it may be partly intentional as to give no reason to set up interspecies animal fights (morality and all).

 

[macronecu]

I think it may be partly intentional as to give no reason to set up interspecies animal fights (morality and all).

Then they wouldn't have created three categories for animal interactions. Predation, face-off fighting 1v1 and intimidation. Surely, the aim isn't interspecies arenas but they already made it for immersive purposes, so it needs to be as realistic as possible. According to that logic the current state wouldn't be moral either.