More variety in challenges (Franchise and Challenge mode)

[PeppyPepp]

I think we could benefit from more variety in challenges that are presented to us in franchise and challenge mode. It's very repetitive and uninspiring. I don't mind the ones we get now (e.g. Increase education of x animal to 14%; Release 3 x animals into the wild; Have 2000 guests in your zoo; etc), but I feel like we could have many more challenges with ranging difficulties.

For example a "hard" challenge would be "Have 2 polar bears in your zoo" - it would encourage the player to work towards getting polar bears in their zoo, but because having them in your zoo poses all kind of different challenges (space, food cost, climate) it would be considered as a "hard" challenge. It could be even harder if it would be something like "Have 2 polar bears in your zoo with welfare above 90%". The challenges itself would be affected by the difficulty of the game itself. If it's easy mode you get all the easier challenges, medium would be a mix of easy and hard and hard could be only hard challenges.

Other examples of challenges:

• Have 2 habitats with Asian animals with climbing needs in your zoo
• Have 3 different species of spiders in your zoo
• Have a pride of lions consisting of 10 individuals in your zoo

Obviously I'm just brainstorming here and I'm sure we could all come up with many more ideas. We have all the animals available to us on the market since the start it would be nice if we actually had an incentive to adopt certain species and work towards different goals.

What do you think?

 

[PeppyPepp]

I just remembered something else. Remember in ZT2 where you had challenges where a company would contact you because they wanted 2 pictures of gazelles jumping or running and in exchange they would give you money. Maybe we could have something similar in PZ. Lets say a zoo in India would like you to breed 2 golden rated Dall sheep and in exchange they would give you money or they would advertise your zoo (and the result would be more guests in your zoo). Or lets say a conservation park in Canada would give you a mate for your male grizzly bear if you raise his welfare to 95%. Just an idea.

 

[FoxyDee]

Yea loved those challenges. Really enjoyed those where they lent you animals and if you met some requirment, they let you keep them. Or some chalenges awarded animals. Would be really nice, as sometimes zoos take in animals in need.

 

[Swjosdotschka]

Yea loved those challenges. Really enjoyed those where they lent you animals and if you met some requirment, they let you keep them. Or some chalenges awarded animals. Would be really nice, as sometimes zoos take in animals in need.

That would actually make me try out challenge mode.