🐾 Planet Zoo - Update 1.2 coming 7 April 🐾

Masteradstriker

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As an observant (i.e. someone who doesn't have the game), it cheers me up to see a gaming company improving their product based on feedback. The enthusiasm of the consumers receiving these news are also heartwarming. I wish I can join in the fun, but computer specs and prices can't support me right now.

That said, I hope the lot of you FD people are doing okay despite the pandemic and the lockdowns. Health is paramount, for without good health, how can you do anything?

Stay strong!
 

Danny_zoo

Danny_zoo
I thank the entire Planet Zoo team for all your hard work, dedication and sacrifice. Your company is a beacon of light in such troubling times. I can't wait to see what the new foliage looks like, thank you for listening. If I could please suggest that the feature that exists in Planet Coaster to load up web images into the game could be added to Planet Zoo in a future update. Thank you and stay healthy.
 

Swjosdotschka

Swjosdotschka
Well, the happiness factor could be higher at the moment. The update (and the hope for a dlc) is a glimpse of light at the moment, though. :)
 

NoNameCity

NoNameCity
I'm liking the update, although Player Settings for Units (Meters VS Feet etc.) .....why only Metric "Zoopedia descriptions" for the Animals....not cool, I would have thought that with everything you've done for this update, that would have been a easy edit to implement.
 

WingardiumLevicoaster

Volunteer Moderator
WingardiumLevicoaster
NoNameCity said:
I'm liking the update, although Player Settings for Units (Meters VS Feet etc.) .....why only Metric "Zoopedia descriptions" for the Animals....not cool, I would have thought that with everything you've done for this update, that would have been a easy edit to implement.
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I think it's worth raising it as feedback. However it wouldn't be as easy I expect to change descriptions Vs individual figures stored in a DB across an application. That's two different systems. It would probably be far more complex to write some kind of templating system to switch out the dynamic values within the zoopedia text based on the unit setting. Obviously take it with a pinch of salt as I don't know how it was done, but as an outsider, I could see this being the issue.
 

ShadowLilly

ShadowLilly
Chante Goodman said:
Research Shared Across All Franchise Zoos
Completed research will be shared across your Franchise. If you load into a Franchise Zoo, the research data will be saved so that the highest levels of research will be carried over between all Franchise zoos. It's important to note, that if a Staff Member was researching a research category where the jump in levels is less than 1, then when you load into the zoo, they will no longer be assigned to that research and you will need to re-assign them. In comparison, the research should continue if, for example, they were researching level 1 Chinese Pangolins, and level 1 was completed in another zoo, then when you load back into the zoo they should be researching level 2.

In order to make sure you've got all of your research data from across your Franchise you'll need to load into each zoo individually. This is due to the fact that if we were to do this in the background, it could create incredibly long loading times for you, so to make the game more seamless when loading zoos, your Franchise zoos will load research individually once you load into them. Once your Franchise zoos are all up to date, this will create a new baseline of research shared across them, until you upgrade research further.
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After reading the post again, I have a question about this: Will the research automaticly cross over all the zoo's, or is this an option you can choose? (so if I don't want the research to cross over and keep it like it is right now in the game, is that possible? In 1 zoo I have researched everything, but I like the challenge in new zoo's to research things again)
 

Lea_G

Lea_G
Oh wow, so many modifications - sounds awesome! Thank you for listening to our feedback - you guys seem to be far more productive working from home than I am ;) Can't wait to check out the new features. Fantastic! <3
 

Paul_Crowther

Senior Community Manager
Frontier
NoNameCity said:
I'm liking the update, although Player Settings for Units (Meters VS Feet etc.) .....why only Metric "Zoopedia descriptions" for the Animals....not cool, I would have thought that with everything you've done for this update, that would have been a easy edit to implement.
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Hi there,

We’ve made this addition based on community feedback and whilst we’d love to do more it would not be a simple or brief tasks to undertake. Whilst we appreciate it may sound like an easy task there is considerably more involved than may be apparent. We hope the changes we have made though will help you design and build your zoos.

LillidarAn said:
After reading the post again, I have a question about this: Will the research automaticly cross over all the zoo's, or is this an option you can choose? (so if I don't want the research to cross over and keep it like it is right now in the game, is that possible? In 1 zoo I have researched everything, but I like the challenge in new zoo's to research things again)
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When the update becomes available you will need to load your Franchise Mode saved game with the most research completed and then load into your other zoos. This will sync up the research levels going forward. This only needs to be done once. There is no option to keep the Franchise zoos from having their own research levels with this update.
 

ShadowLilly

ShadowLilly
Paul_Crowther said:
When the update becomes available you will need to load your Franchise Mode saved game with the most research completed and then load into your other zoos. This will sync up the research levels going forward. This only needs to be done once. There is no option to keep the Franchise zoos from having their own research levels with this update.
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Thanks for the explanation! I realy hope in an other update you can set the research level per franchise zoo :(
 

Swjosdotschka

Swjosdotschka
Quick question, might not fit with the update, but I don't know:

Will research be shared in challenge mode as well or don't we have a "franchise" there?
 
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