I have been playing this game for quite a few hours now and compared to other management games it is at times infuriating, so here a few feedback on some improvements i think would benefit everyone
- Multi-select animals from any menu (includes Trading, My trade center, etc). I know you can do this in some but not all, but when you buy 10 zebras maybe you want to throw them all at once in a habitat, that would be nice
- Financial info needs to be more detailed and i dont think cash flow speaks to everyone
- There should be an option for exhibits to "keep animal on stock". Now once i pay for an exhibit creature this creature can reproduce, thus, an exchange can be initiated with other zoos, to keep the population stable, all while keeping inbreeding and gene problems low. Basically avoidind having to manage the exhibit every minute for scorpions for instance.
- Similarly there should be an AUTO-RELEASE, AUTO-SELL option for all habitats, for all babies as soon as they reach maturity. As well as an AUTO-BirthControl to avoid inbreeding and degradation of the species. I usually buy couples based on good gene match-up and would like to keep that couple as the only one breeding until they die basically. And lets not talk about all the fighting once pups grow into adults.
-The UI is kind of big for me at least without it needing it to be.
- Conditions for unlocking stuff are not always know, now i can just do all the research but ....
-Vet/Mechanic research should be shared in franchise mode, i see no point of it beeing a franchise, if nothing but CC are shared, and i dont think any of us are going for climate apropriate animals in all our zoos to justify this separation. Plus knowledge of disease is not tied to the vet but to the players franchise zoo so it seems counter intuitive.
- I can't seem to be able to create more than 1m length paths in grid mode, maybe it's just me, but would like to
- Null barriers should be able to be placed anywhere and through anything.
- I feel like cash is either coming it at alarming rates or going down in 50% of your total at once. I was having a good zoo with 50k income, so basically i was rich, but then i thought i"d get a pack of lions, long story short, 150k on food for the lions later i was almost out of cash. What i'm saying here is 550$/feed doesnt tell me anything, tell me xK$/year for feeding lions. Also i understand more than 3 lions doesnt bring that many more visitors, but maybe we could have an estimate of visitor income from adding a new species.
- I have no idea the actual effect marketing has.
- Zoo ticket price is either underpriced, Just right, Overpriced, There is no in between for anyone.
- Alerts should be dismiss-able, if i want my zoo price hugely overpriced, that's my business, no need for red flags all day.
- I took a 20k loan with 5% interest, i changed nothing in the settings, i ended up paying over 3.8k of interest, now I'm no math expert but that's not 5% unless it's 5% of remaining loan each year, in wich case i'd have to look up my accounting lessons from 5 years ago to figure out how much I'll exactly have to pay.
- Same as everyone else, the alpha male/female everywhere is a bummer, and most animal group size is kind of ridiculous
- Pregnancy is way too easy, even for creatures like giant panda, which is seriously skiddish on making babies in captivity
- The keeper AI needs to go, i decide how many feeders i want full in the enclosure, and my fault if i end up spending 150k on lions, but i do need that info somewhere on how much this feeder will cost per year, or on the animal its cost of food per year (depending on quality level)
- Mechanics can either research or do work, apparently not both, if they research everything breaks down (bug i guess)
- If i want to place paths in grid mode i want to be able to place smaller paths than the one i selected the grid of, an example of this a path of 4m width, if you do a grid mode selection, your forced on a 4m width, what if i want a small 2m one, or a bigger one ? OR maybe i just didn't find the right button yet.
- Curved everything in enclosure walls, and more types of enclosure wall i feel like they're kind of lacking in variety
- I don't think i'm the only one but god damn are the guests thirsty. I have so many gulpees per m² i don't even know how many i have, but surely too many and nobody is satisfied fully, now i haven't seen zoos with outdoor cooling systems, so I'm not ready to cool my visitors yet. Having level 5 vendor doesn't seem to help that much either.
- Speaking of levels, aside from "Increased performance" I'd like to know exactly how much, maybe a level 1 can do 10visitors/day, and a level 2 20? No one knows, and we'd like to know so we can try to manage bettter our parks
- More types of transformers, water treatment, i mean medium ones, big ones each with increase cost.
- I have seen many flamingos in many zoos and wildlife reserves, and they all had one thing in common : nobody fed them, unless it was to talk about them to the public. Now i can probably have those 500 flamingos in my zoo, but feeding 500 flamingos? No, i believe some animals should be able to survive on their habitat space alone, at least in some climates. The flamingo particularly, should be able to survive given a big enough water lake with food in it. Grazing animals should graze on grass that should regrow over the course of the year, needing little to none added food. That is given a big enough enclosure or space so they all have a large enough food supply that can replenish.
- Minimum spaces necessary for animals, 700m², great info, but for what ? One animal, The pack ? A couple, no one know, and no one uses this info since we dont know and just make them big enough so we don't have to care about it.
- Education : now i have tested this long and large on a single peafowl enclosure, since i had the challenge of raising the education level to 19%, i put speakers (not overlapping), screens, added access for visitors, more speakers, benches, you name it, i have NEVER gone pas 16% and that was just a fluctuating number from the normal 13%. Something is off with education, and i can't find out what.
- My security officer is basically useless, either add more use to the poor guy, or make some angry guests so he can do something all day. Now i have heard about speakers and such beeing vandalized, but with a single security officer and 5000 visitors I've had not a single vandal do anything, and the security guy is still just wandering around thinking about his life choices.
- Shops should fit inside a single box in grid mode, instead they don't and it's extremely unsatisfying. On the same not why dont toilets fit into 2 or 3 i dont care, and are s taht have forsaken grids forever ?
- More terrain tools , specifically sloping tools, for smooth slopes, or angled ones, river beds, now i can make them using the current tools it would be nice to be able to do it more easily.
- I saw someone say they wanted a dummy animal for habitat building, without going as far as a menu for placing dummy animal. just a filter box for habitat determining the species we want inside, and telling us the conditions needed.
- A lot of inter-species are missing, i understand we can still make the live together, but still i would be nice to have a full savanna or an Asian jungle, basically all animals should be able to live with their respective environmental friends. I would even extend this to predators, with the purpose of making a wilderness reserve, but i know that's just a dream.
- Aside from making pretty decorations, benches and picnic tables are never used, or i have never seen them used. They are pretty though.
- I would like to know if i need to place heaters, or coolers or both in my habitats, now it's nice to know the animal live in 0 to 29°, but what exactly is the range of temperature of my zoo ?
- On the subject of cooling, closed habitats should have a cooling system, now i know we don't have polar bears (yet i hope) but we have some snow animals that would like to have cold everywhere maybe ?
I guess thats all, i don't think i've mentioned too many bugs, because there are load of those, but these are mostly improvements i'd hope to see in the game.
Cheers on the game ^^
- Multi-select animals from any menu (includes Trading, My trade center, etc). I know you can do this in some but not all, but when you buy 10 zebras maybe you want to throw them all at once in a habitat, that would be nice
- Financial info needs to be more detailed and i dont think cash flow speaks to everyone
- There should be an option for exhibits to "keep animal on stock". Now once i pay for an exhibit creature this creature can reproduce, thus, an exchange can be initiated with other zoos, to keep the population stable, all while keeping inbreeding and gene problems low. Basically avoidind having to manage the exhibit every minute for scorpions for instance.
- Similarly there should be an AUTO-RELEASE, AUTO-SELL option for all habitats, for all babies as soon as they reach maturity. As well as an AUTO-BirthControl to avoid inbreeding and degradation of the species. I usually buy couples based on good gene match-up and would like to keep that couple as the only one breeding until they die basically. And lets not talk about all the fighting once pups grow into adults.
-The UI is kind of big for me at least without it needing it to be.
- Conditions for unlocking stuff are not always know, now i can just do all the research but ....
-Vet/Mechanic research should be shared in franchise mode, i see no point of it beeing a franchise, if nothing but CC are shared, and i dont think any of us are going for climate apropriate animals in all our zoos to justify this separation. Plus knowledge of disease is not tied to the vet but to the players franchise zoo so it seems counter intuitive.
- I can't seem to be able to create more than 1m length paths in grid mode, maybe it's just me, but would like to
- Null barriers should be able to be placed anywhere and through anything.
- I feel like cash is either coming it at alarming rates or going down in 50% of your total at once. I was having a good zoo with 50k income, so basically i was rich, but then i thought i"d get a pack of lions, long story short, 150k on food for the lions later i was almost out of cash. What i'm saying here is 550$/feed doesnt tell me anything, tell me xK$/year for feeding lions. Also i understand more than 3 lions doesnt bring that many more visitors, but maybe we could have an estimate of visitor income from adding a new species.
- I have no idea the actual effect marketing has.
- Zoo ticket price is either underpriced, Just right, Overpriced, There is no in between for anyone.
- Alerts should be dismiss-able, if i want my zoo price hugely overpriced, that's my business, no need for red flags all day.
- I took a 20k loan with 5% interest, i changed nothing in the settings, i ended up paying over 3.8k of interest, now I'm no math expert but that's not 5% unless it's 5% of remaining loan each year, in wich case i'd have to look up my accounting lessons from 5 years ago to figure out how much I'll exactly have to pay.
- Same as everyone else, the alpha male/female everywhere is a bummer, and most animal group size is kind of ridiculous
- Pregnancy is way too easy, even for creatures like giant panda, which is seriously skiddish on making babies in captivity
- The keeper AI needs to go, i decide how many feeders i want full in the enclosure, and my fault if i end up spending 150k on lions, but i do need that info somewhere on how much this feeder will cost per year, or on the animal its cost of food per year (depending on quality level)
- Mechanics can either research or do work, apparently not both, if they research everything breaks down (bug i guess)
- If i want to place paths in grid mode i want to be able to place smaller paths than the one i selected the grid of, an example of this a path of 4m width, if you do a grid mode selection, your forced on a 4m width, what if i want a small 2m one, or a bigger one ? OR maybe i just didn't find the right button yet.
- Curved everything in enclosure walls, and more types of enclosure wall i feel like they're kind of lacking in variety
- I don't think i'm the only one but god damn are the guests thirsty. I have so many gulpees per m² i don't even know how many i have, but surely too many and nobody is satisfied fully, now i haven't seen zoos with outdoor cooling systems, so I'm not ready to cool my visitors yet. Having level 5 vendor doesn't seem to help that much either.
- Speaking of levels, aside from "Increased performance" I'd like to know exactly how much, maybe a level 1 can do 10visitors/day, and a level 2 20? No one knows, and we'd like to know so we can try to manage bettter our parks
- More types of transformers, water treatment, i mean medium ones, big ones each with increase cost.
- I have seen many flamingos in many zoos and wildlife reserves, and they all had one thing in common : nobody fed them, unless it was to talk about them to the public. Now i can probably have those 500 flamingos in my zoo, but feeding 500 flamingos? No, i believe some animals should be able to survive on their habitat space alone, at least in some climates. The flamingo particularly, should be able to survive given a big enough water lake with food in it. Grazing animals should graze on grass that should regrow over the course of the year, needing little to none added food. That is given a big enough enclosure or space so they all have a large enough food supply that can replenish.
- Minimum spaces necessary for animals, 700m², great info, but for what ? One animal, The pack ? A couple, no one know, and no one uses this info since we dont know and just make them big enough so we don't have to care about it.
- Education : now i have tested this long and large on a single peafowl enclosure, since i had the challenge of raising the education level to 19%, i put speakers (not overlapping), screens, added access for visitors, more speakers, benches, you name it, i have NEVER gone pas 16% and that was just a fluctuating number from the normal 13%. Something is off with education, and i can't find out what.
- My security officer is basically useless, either add more use to the poor guy, or make some angry guests so he can do something all day. Now i have heard about speakers and such beeing vandalized, but with a single security officer and 5000 visitors I've had not a single vandal do anything, and the security guy is still just wandering around thinking about his life choices.
- Shops should fit inside a single box in grid mode, instead they don't and it's extremely unsatisfying. On the same not why dont toilets fit into 2 or 3 i dont care, and are s taht have forsaken grids forever ?
- More terrain tools , specifically sloping tools, for smooth slopes, or angled ones, river beds, now i can make them using the current tools it would be nice to be able to do it more easily.
- I saw someone say they wanted a dummy animal for habitat building, without going as far as a menu for placing dummy animal. just a filter box for habitat determining the species we want inside, and telling us the conditions needed.
- A lot of inter-species are missing, i understand we can still make the live together, but still i would be nice to have a full savanna or an Asian jungle, basically all animals should be able to live with their respective environmental friends. I would even extend this to predators, with the purpose of making a wilderness reserve, but i know that's just a dream.
- Aside from making pretty decorations, benches and picnic tables are never used, or i have never seen them used. They are pretty though.
- I would like to know if i need to place heaters, or coolers or both in my habitats, now it's nice to know the animal live in 0 to 29°, but what exactly is the range of temperature of my zoo ?
- On the subject of cooling, closed habitats should have a cooling system, now i know we don't have polar bears (yet i hope) but we have some snow animals that would like to have cold everywhere maybe ?
I guess thats all, i don't think i've mentioned too many bugs, because there are load of those, but these are mostly improvements i'd hope to see in the game.
Cheers on the game ^^