PZ2 Features Meta-wishlist

[Captain Callum]

Welcome all to the features meta-wishlist for planet zoo 2, the hopeful sequel to planet zoo! Similar to my free-update wishlist, this will be the place to clearly suggest your desired features for the sequel as suggesting in the very active speculation threads is a bad way to allow your suggestions to be seen by frontier. This meta-wishlist plans to include pretty much anything you can think of, feature wise, new scenery pieces, improved mechanics, brand new animal systems for birds or aquariums... whatever you want!

Guidelines of the Meta-wishlist:

1. You can suggest animals only if they are backed up with a mechanic for housing these animals, ideally we want to focus on the features rather than the animals themselves due to the word limit of these threads.
2. Everyone has unlimited votes but duplicates will be monitored
3. Please only suggest features related to planet zoo, any inappropriate features or spam will be ignored or reported if needed
4. Don't suggest bug fixes for planet zoo 1
5. There is no restriction on unpopular forum ideas like marine mammal mechanics or features related to them, don't feel pressured by others to hold back any personal wants in these areas
6. Liking another post is not counted as a vote, if you want to add a vote to another person's suggestion, quote their message and let me know you want to add a vote to that suggestion
7. If suggesting a major animal additions such as aviaries, aquariums, individual animal personalities etc, it would be appreciated if you can provide an explanation of how these would work for your ideal implementation of the feature. Just a vague "give me birds" doesn't help everyone else understand how you want birds in a sequel.

Voting for others suggestions:

• You can vote for features suggested by other people, you can do this by easily just quoting their post and add a "+1" message however do not +1 an entire list if any of the suggestions have already been mentioned by you or +1 by you already. You can +1 a list but ensure you mention what suggestions you don't need a second vote for.
• Duplicate votes will ruin the meta-wishlist and I do not want to spend time cross-checking every post that +1's a large list.

Meta-wishlist post linking

• For the benefit of readers of the meta-wishlist and people spending time writing about their desired features, I will be hyperlinking each and every suggestion in the meta-wishlist table to the orginal or most detailed post about a suggestion. Please ensure those wanting to give detail about a suggestion do so, as everyone will be looking at your post for that suggestion.

Examples of features you may want to suggest:

• Aviaries, aquariums, and other large additions to the game
• Animal reworks, and features/additions to any animal
• Specific foliage and scenery pieces requests
• UI improvements, improvements to the animal market
• Improvements to animal hitboxes, new climbing behaviours for animals
• Seasons, weather improvements
• More map skirts/backgrounds, improved game modes
• New game modes, increased conservation features

PZ2 Feature Meta-wishlists (Last update 21st October / Post 163):

Spoiler: PZ2 Feature Meta-Wishlist:

Ranking	Suggestion (Link on each for details)	Number of Votes
1	Aviaries	23
2	Exhibit Reworks	23
3	New Planet Coaster 2 Features	22
4	Aquariums	16
5	Gamification (Add fun features like minigames)	13
6	Full Animal Customisation in Sandbox	13
7	Terrain Paints on all Biomes	12
8	Rework Animal Hitboxes	12
9	Rework Base Game Animals to Current Standard	12
10	Turn off Hitboxes of Scenery Pieces	11
11	Improved Herding	11
12	Cater towards Small Animals	10
13	Custom Map Skirts	9
14	Give us all animals from PZ1	9
15	Slower Time	9
16	Egg Laying	9
17	Seasons	9
18	Playgrounds & Splash Pads	9
19	Animal Personalities	9
20	Climbing Overhaul	9
21	More Fonts & Art Shapes	9
22	Rework Iguanas into Habitat Animals	9
23	Rework Rock Hitboxes	8
24	More Map Options	8
25	Subspecies Selector	8
	Educational Props	8
	Exhibit Customisation	8
	Variety of Animal Horns/Tusks/Antlers	8
	Playable Zookeeper Mode	8
	Multiple Habitat Gates	8
	Elevated Null Paths	8
	Realistic Transport Rides	8
	Elevators	8
	Improved Challenge Mode	7
	Customiable Perch Points for Ground Birds	7
	New and Improved Enrichment Items	7
	Animal Behaviour Overhaul	7
	Improved Interior Lighting	7
	Modular Mesh Building Set	7
	Animal Rankings	6
	All Planet Zoo 1 Themes Return	6
	Animal Shows	6
	Nocturnal House Building Set	6
	Random Events	6
	Driveable Staff Vehicles	6
	Co-op Multiplayer	6
	Buildable Tunnels in the Barrier Menu	6
	Guests will dress for the climate	6
	Add Fossil / Taxidermy Props as Scenery Items	6
50	Interspecies Interaction in Mixed Habitats	6
	Climbing for Monitors	6
	Null Signs	6
	Different Styles of Donation Boxes	6
	Improved Animal Market	6
	Prevent Animals Walking Through Other Animals	6
	Prevent Guests Walking Through Other Animals	6
	Conservation Engagement	5
	Auto Generated Zoo Map	5
	Auto Generated Zoo News	5
	More Realistic Zoo Props	5
	Realistic Air Conditioning Props	5
	Improved Franchise Challenges	5
	Animal Model Variants	5
	Plantpedia (Zoopedia for foliage)	5
	Add option to Mirror Items or Groups	5
	Carousel Rides	5
	Horizontal Stained Wood Walls	5
	One Way Paths	5
	Disable Path Snapping for Bins/Benches	5
	Add a Color Picker/eyedrop tool to the Color Menu	5
	Realistic Feeders	5
	Exhibit Mixed Species by Biome	5
	More Animal Guest Interactions	5
	Improve Quality of Exhibit Animals	5
75	Add More Shop Brands	5
	More Custom Signs	4
	More Windows & Doors	4
	Focus on Zoo Backstage Areas	4
	Improved Weather Systems	4
	Dynamic Doors	4
	Add 2 & 3m paths as an offical feature	4
	Ambassador Animals	4
	Day and Night Cycle for Animals	4
	Emu as a Walkthrough Animal	4
	Exhibit Mammals	4
	More Vehicle Props	4
	Improved Zoo Management	4
	Allow Pathing to be Included in Blueprints	4
	Animal Feeding Sessions	4
	Include Guests with Disabilities	4
	Make Animals Urinate	4
	Improve Guest and Staff A.I	4
	Reduce Guest Needs	4
	Flat Solar Panels	4
	Hotels	4
	Animal Keeper Bonding	3
	Reduce Rate of Animal Running	3
	Different Locomotion Speeds for Animals	3
	Big Bouncy Ball Enrichment	3
100	Add Boxless Exhibits	3
	Ambient Animals	3
	Zebra on the Equine Rig	3
	Don't Lock Reward Statues for Sandbox Mode	3
	More Realistic Path Textures	3
	Multi-species Walkthrough Exhibit	3
	Option to Tilt Barriers Inward or Outward	3
	Add a Barrier with Faux/Natural Rock Texture	3
	Add Triangular versions of each scenery wall panel	3
	Add Semi-transparent custom media Panels	3
	Add Realistic Climbing Frames as Blueprints	3
	Improved Hard Shelter	3
	Optional Tunnel / Road Spawner	3
	No Deep Diving Depth for Small Animals	3
	Allow Barriers Directly at the Paths Edge	3
	Proper Free Roaming Animals	3
	Music Player	3
	Entrance & Exit Gates	3
	Animal Gates of Different Sizes	3
	Small Parking Lot or Parking Garage	3
	Modular Natural Tree Parts	3
	Rework Plant Need of Animals	3
	Add Pools	3
	Photo Challenges	3
	Incubation Center	3
125	Resize Certain Animals, especially tortoises	3
	Animal Market UI Improvements	3
	Scenery Path Pieces	3
	Better Modular Building Set Selection	3
	Mascots	3
	Working Animal Gates (like PVC Curtain)	3
	Scratching Tree Enrichment for All Biomes	3
	Add Deer Pinata Enrichment	3
	Make Burrows Flexicolor	3
	Make Animal Signs Have a Consistent Style	3
	Make Animal Statues Have a Consistent Style	3
	Horizontal Wooden Logs Building Set	3
	More Default Barriers	3
	Smaller Entrance to Viewing Domes	3
	Add Animal Status to Animals	3
	Staff Null Path	3
	Flexicolor Options for all Scenery	2
	Buy Animals Without a Trade Center	2
	Toggle Rocks Counting Towards Terrain	2
	Enrichment Item Conditions	2
	Tail-Hanging Behaviour For Monkeys	2
	Improved Grazing	2
	Koalas and Giant Pandas have Highest Appeal	2
	Invisible Food & Water Bowls	2
	Dynamic Items with No Set Length	2
150	Reduce size of Facility Buildings like Toilets	2
	Flexicolor Options for All Paths	2
	Add Waterfalls as an ingame Terrain Feature	2
	Allow Steep Terrain count as a barrier	2
	Improved Petting Zoo Mechanics	2
	Adminstration Center	2
	Add Large Pumpkins as an Enrichment Item	2
	Allow the Safari Ride Track to be Invisible	2
	Custom Holiday/Event System	2
	Disable Guest Models	2
	More Vehicle Spawners	2
	Reduce Terrain Obstruction for Habitat Items	2
	Add Firehoses as Climbing Items	2
	Barrier for each Scenery Wall Texture	2
	Remove Non-flexicolor Duplicates of Scenery Items	2
	Different Options for Path Railings and Kerbs	2
	Improved Engine for Better Fur and Hair Textures	2
	Better DLC diversity	2
	Add Mixed Species Compatibility Chart	2
	Improve Sound for Certain Animals	2
	Animal Feed Vending Machines	2
	Private Trades with Other Players	2
	Ability to Save Color Palettes	2
	Guest Only Barriers	2
	School Tours / Field Trip Tours	2
175	Educational Center / Classrooms	2
	Animal Model Viewer in Menu	2
	Path with Road Markings	2
	More Educational Signs	2
	Modded Franchise Animals	2
	Allow animals that do, to lay out in the sun not the shade	2
	Return of Restaurants, Souvenir Shops, Vending Machines	2
	More Table Styles for Restaurants	2
	Return of Animal Talks and Guided Tours	2
	Return of Custom Media Billboards	2
	Return of all Enrichment Items	2
	Deep Diving for Monitors	2
	Arctic Fox Can Use Burrow	2
	Remove Walkthrough for Giant Anteater	2
	Option to Hide Certain Animal Images for Phobias	2
	Add Fire Extinguisher Prop	2
	Add Sloth Juveniles	2
	Colorblind Text for Color Pallete	2
	Schedule Exhibits to be Rotational	2
	More Stages for Animal Aging	1
	Option for Sloths as Habitat Animals	1
	Animal have Different Tolerance for Water Salinity	1
	Custom Fence System	1
	Make Signs, Donation Boxes Smaller	1
	Add Themed Items such as Mythology Pieces	1
200	Add Barriers that seperate Different Terrain Heights	1
	Add a Salinity Slider for Water Bodies	1
	Add a Temporary Invisibility Toggle for Items	1
	Add a Shortkey for Toggling Random Rotation	1
	Add a Shortkey for Rotating Along World Axis	1
	Add a Barrier Roof and Floor System	1
	Allow Keepers to Wade Through Water	1
	Fix Gharial Animations	1
	Remove Exhibit box System for Free Roam Habitat	1
	Improved First Person Camera	1
	Option for Exhibit Animals as Placeable Props	1
	Improved Franchise Mode	1
	Celebrity Animals	1
	Modular Statues	1
	Rename Timber Wolf to Grey Wolf	1
	Animal Activity Slider	1
	Auto Placing Seasonal Scenery	1
	Remove Mixed Species Bonuses	1
	Rework Interspecies Enrichment Needs	1
	Interspecies Interaction Between Close Relatives	1
	Manually Control Diets of Animals	1
	Glass Path	1
	Animal Talk Seating to Connect to Several Talk Points	1
	Alphabetical Order Sorting Fixed for Foreign Languages	1
224	Painted/Graffitied Walls	1

Spoiler: Foliage Meta-wishlist

Ranking	Suggestion (Link on each for details)	Number of Votes
1	Add Foliage - Desert Fan Palm Tree	4
2	Add Flexicolor Natural Rocks	3
3	Add Foliage - Traveller's Tree	3
4	All Rocks Return from pz1	2
5	Add Foliage - bird-of-paradise	2
6	Add Foliage - Tembusu Tree	2
7	Add Foliage - A Leafless Baobab Tree	2
8	Add Foliage - Strawberry Tree	2
9	Add Foliage - Aspen Tree	2
10	Add Foliage - Mediterranean Limestone Rocks	2
11	All pz1 foliage Returns	2
12	Add Foliage - Blue Gum Eucalyptus Tree	2
13	Add Foliage - Norway Maple Tree	2
14	Add Foliage - Downy Birch Tree	2
15	Add Foliage - European Larch Tree	2
16	Add Foliage - Indian Almond Tree	2
17	Add Foliage - Juniper Tree	2
18	Add Foliage - Taller Date Palm Trees	2
19	Add Foliage - New Zealand Beech Tree	1
20	Add Foliage - Common Horsetail	1
21	Add Foliage - Coffee Tree	1
22	Add Foliage - Common Dogwood	1
23	Add Foliage - Weeping Cypress Tree	1
24	Add Foliage - Japanese Maple Tree	1

 

[Villanelle]

Awesome! Thanks so much @Captain Callum . I'll put my thinking cap on and try to put all my votes in one succinct post.

 

[AlexSea]

Aviaries: I don't think we'll be able to make fully free-form aviaries, because that might screw up the navigable area of flying birds. Instead, what Frontier could do is make it so you build a habitat and then have the option to add a mesh roof, which is then automatically made. Ideally this would also work if the barriers of the habitat were null barriers.
Item scaling: Speaks for itself really.
Improved path system: I can't really put into words how to fix the path system, but PC2 is improving it, so maybe PZ2 can do the same.
All terrain paints in all biomes: One of my most wanted features, I don't understand how this isn't already a thing.
Plant brush: Another thing that PC2 has, I see no reason why PZ2 can't have it too.
Custom map skirts: You should be able to import an image, or potentially a collection of images, to make custom map skirts.
More maps: Why don't we have a city map? PC had it.
Better animal market: In sandbox, have more than four of each animal show up in the market at a time. Maybe make it a setting. In franchise, put stricter limits on how much players can charge for animals to combat in-game inflation.
Sandbox animal gene editor: It doesn't make much sense logically, but this is sandbox mode. We should be able to get animals with the exact gene percentages and physical appearance we want. Want a zoo with all albino animals? Or all animals with a 0% size gene? Now you can!

 

[synthetase]

Aviaries: I don't think we'll be able to make fully free-form aviaries, because that might screw up the navigable area of flying birds. Instead, what Frontier could do is make it so you build a habitat and then have the option to add a mesh roof, which is then automatically made. Ideally this would also work if the barriers of the habitat were null barriers.
Item scaling: Speaks for itself really.
Improved path system: I can't really put into words how to fix the path system, but PC2 is improving it, so maybe PZ2 can do the same.
All terrain paints in all biomes: One of my most wanted features, I don't understand how this isn't already a thing.
Plant brush: Another thing that PC2 has, I see no reason why PZ2 can't have it too.
Custom map skirts: You should be able to import an image, or potentially a collection of images, to make custom map skirts.
More maps: Why don't we have a city map? PC had it.
Better animal market: In sandbox, have more than four of each animal show up in the market at a time. Maybe make it a setting. In franchise, put stricter limits on how much players can charge for animals to combat in-game inflation.
Sandbox animal gene editor: It doesn't make much sense logically, but this is sandbox mode. We should be able to get animals with the exact gene percentages and physical appearance we want. Want a zoo with all albino animals? Or all animals with a 0% size gene? Now you can!

Everything above!
Plus:
Exhibit Customization: goes without saying
Exhibit Mammals: I long for chinchillas, Egyptian Spiny Mice, Tree Shrews etc...
Subspecies and/or Model Variants: A Red Fox from the desert with larger ears would be awesome for example.
Flexicolor Pretty much Everything!
All (OR most) Animals from PZ1: Especially: Striped Hyena and Arctic Fox
Slower Time
Seasons

 

[SanRazo]

Aquariums and aquatic animals

Can come in two types

one similar to our current exhibit types but with more customization of size and layout (probably should be universal for all exhibits in the sequel, maybe have a mini exhibit editor?) and that will be for small schools of fish/ crustaceans that would get lost in larger “habitat” tanks

Second type is the huge habitat style tank for animal like manatees, whale sharks, sharks, some cetaceans like belugas, sea turtles, and larger fish like marlins. These should be fully customizable and have a filtration system where you control more parameters: ph, salinity, temperature. These “habitat” tanks should work similar to the current barrier system with a little bit of zoo tycoon 2’s tank system as well, with a new tank entrance for keepers and everything. Current animals like: pinnipeds and penguins can also be housed in them as long as land is provided. This should all work like zoo tycoon 2 where if you wanted to connect a tank to a regular habitat you could as well and it’s seamless.

Aviaries

I agree aviaries should work as regular habitats but the game either gives you an option for a covering or uses the same way it track down shelter shade to realize a habitat is covered by scenery. Preferably both options. WEs can be kept and expanded for smaller birds like budgies. Full blown aviaries are for bigger flying birds and arboreal animals.

Animal behavior rehaul

Animals should have added behaviors that make them feel more alive. Nursing mammals with their babies, animals carrying their babies, animals stalking/ vocalizing at animals in adjacent habitats, animals herding in large sprawled out habitats to create more realistic looking herbivore savannahs or plains habitats. Animal social structure being more realistic per animal, wolves running in packs and have a strict pecking order for example, if habitats are big enough animals carve out territories just like jwe2. A lot of these features were in zt2 I’d like them to be modernized and put in pz2.

Animal keeper bonding/ training system

A systems where animals build bonds with certain keepers. Certain keepers are more welcomed and accepted by the animals the more the keeper and the animal have bonded. Allowing these keepers to enter the habitat and interact with the animals with less stress.add a training mechanic where animals train for medical procedures and training animals results in the possible of some species having educational shows and presentations for your guests. (Like zt2 marine shows but for land animals and birds as well like falconry shows, but have the focus more on education like modern zoos are doing) this can be a new form of revenue for franchise zoos.

Better more active and alive challenges in franchise mode

Make challenges similar to zoo tycoon 2 where they’re more active and have a slight story to them. For example: in zoo tycoon 2 randomly an earthquake would hit your zoo and you’d have to redo all your barriers and repair your zoo, your employees would go on strike and you’d have to resolve with less employees for a little while and help out yourself until they came back, celebrities would visit your zoo and you had to make sure they were happy and you got pictures for marketing, you were approached by magazines for marketing photos and you get them for added boost to your zoos fame, another zoo contacts you about trading animals for a while so you have to rush and create a new habitat for a species and you lose one of your animals for a little bit, there’s a animal rescued and you have to house it and care for it for an allotted time and maybe you keep it, there’s a famous dolphin that you have to make sure is happy when you get her for an added boost of attendance and fame if you don’t you lose her and it’s negative for your zoo. All these active challenges could just spring up and you choose to accept or decline most of them (the earthquake one you couldn’t decline) these were added alongside more passive challenges like donation goals, building a tour ride, etc. these make your zoo feel more alive and keep franchise distinct from sandbox, I miss this aspect from zoo tycoon 2 more than any other feature so please planet zoo 2 bring it back.

 

[synthetase]

Animal keeper bonding/ training system

That would be cool if it could somehow work with the player too. I'd really like a sort of keeper mode even.
So +1 to that.

 

[synthetase]

I'd also love Animal Personalities! Some foxes are more on the playful side whilst others are shy/gentle. I'd hope it would be inheritable and included in the animals' genetic description. Similar to the way colors are genetic and you can tell the color of the animal in the trade center.

 

[Captain Callum]

Oh so it's clear, suggestions about major animal additions like aviaries or aquariums should be provided with your opinion on how they should work. It helps us as a community to see which is the preferred implementation on how these new additions would work. Thanks to everyone who has already done this.

 

[RightWhale]

By the God Emperor and the Golden Throne, I need aviaries and if they can work in the same system, fish in exhibit boxes.

Also by extension, I need more educational tools. New signs, bones, anything and everything to make my zoo feel more like a place for learning and exploring.

 

[RightWhale]

Oh so it's clear, suggestions about major animal additions like aviaries or aquariums should be provided with your opinion on how they should work. It helps us as a community to see which is the preferred implementation on how these new additions would work. Thanks to everyone who has already done this.

Ok let me make an addendum to mine then: fish can work in the current exhibit box system. Just maybe with slight more animations.

Aviaries need to be any of the following:

1. Enrichment items can cause flying animations (think nest stands or perch points)
2. May or may not be a gridded piece
3. WTE contain smaller flying birds

 

[synthetase]

I'd also love Animal Personalities! Some foxes are more on the playful side whilst others are shy/gentle. I'd hope it would be inheritable and included in the animals' genetic description. Similar to the way colors are genetic and you can tell the color of the animal in the trade center.

Oh so it's clear, suggestions about major animal additions like aviaries or aquariums should be provided with your opinion on how they should work. It helps us as a community to see which is the preferred implementation on how these new additions would work. Thanks to everyone who has already done this.

The way I imagine personalities is pretty simple. An animal would have one from a pool of descriptions that can affect how often they go through animations.

• Playful: More likely to engage in non-food enrichment
• Curious: More likely to sniff new additions to the habitat
• Lazy: Likes to sleep more
• Loving: Initiates interactions with others
• Shy: Hides from guests and/or keepers
• Bossy: More likely to be the alpha
• Friendly: Bonds to others or keepers quickly
• Loyal: Keeps bonds for lifetime so that when they are reunited they are happy to see them even after the bond would normally be gone
• Smart: Easier to train (IF they add training)

It'd be cool if species have some traits more often than others. I'd like it to be possible for each species to have each trait, though.

 

[RightWhale]

I envision a system like above, using perch points the bird AI can fly up to them and fly back down. Maybe if placed in a certain distance of one another (I envision to a max of 16m) the birds will also fly between them.

 

[RightWhale]

Bird shows I also think should become a thing, and you can decide if some of your animals are kept behind closed doors except for shows like this.

 

[synthetase]

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I envision a system like above, using perch points the bird AI can fly up to them and fly back down. Maybe if placed in a certain distance of one another (I envision to a max of 16m) the birds will also fly between them.

Cool! I like the perch idea. In combination with, in non-sandbox game modes, it needs to be closed top I think it'd be perfect solution. IF, you are playing Franchise mode and you don't have a top to your exhibit the birds could escape.

 

[Stygi]

the new planet coaster 2 pathing mechanics and light physics

 

[SanRazo]

Aviaries: I don't think we'll be able to make fully free-form aviaries, because that might screw up the navigable area of flying birds. Instead, what Frontier could do is make it so you build a habitat and then have the option to add a mesh roof, which is then automatically made. Ideally this would also work if the barriers of the habitat were null barriers.
Item scaling: Speaks for itself really.
Improved path system: I can't really put into words how to fix the path system, but PC2 is improving it, so maybe PZ2 can do the same.
All terrain paints in all biomes: One of my most wanted features, I don't understand how this isn't already a thing.
Plant brush: Another thing that PC2 has, I see no reason why PZ2 can't have it too.
Custom map skirts: You should be able to import an image, or potentially a collection of images, to make custom map skirts.
More maps: Why don't we have a city map? PC had it.
Better animal market: In sandbox, have more than four of each animal show up in the market at a time. Maybe make it a setting. In franchise, put stricter limits on how much players can charge for animals to combat in-game inflation.
Sandbox animal gene editor: It doesn't make much sense logically, but this is sandbox mode. We should be able to get animals with the exact gene percentages and physical appearance we want. Want a zoo with all albino animals? Or all animals with a 0% size gene? Now you can!

Everything above!
Plus:
Exhibit Customization: goes without saying
Exhibit Mammals: I long for chinchillas, Egyptian Spiny Mice, Tree Shrews etc...
Subspecies and/or Model Variants: A Red Fox from the desert with larger ears would be awesome for example.
Flexicolor Pretty much Everything!
All (OR most) Animals from PZ1: Especially: Striped Hyena and Arctic Fox
Slower Time
Seasons

That would be cool if it could somehow work with the player too. I'd really like a sort of keeper mode even.
So +1 to that.

By the God Emperor and the Golden Throne, I need aviaries and if they can work in the same system, fish in exhibit boxes.

Also by extension, I need more educational tools. New signs, bones, anything and everything to make my zoo feel more like a place for learning and exploring.

Ok let me make an addendum to mine then: fish can work in the current exhibit box system. Just maybe with slight more animations.

Aviaries need to be any of the following:

1. Enrichment items can cause flying animations (think nest stands or perch points)
2. May or may not be a gridded piece
3. WTE contain smaller flying birds

The way I imagine personalities is pretty simple. An animal would have one from a pool of descriptions that can affect how often they go through animations.

• Playful: More likely to engage in non-food enrichment
• Curious: More likely to sniff new additions to the habitat
• Lazy: Likes to sleep more
• Loving: Initiates interactions with others
• Shy: Hides from guests and/or keepers
• Bossy: More likely to be the alpha
• Friendly: Bonds to others or keepers quickly
• Loyal: Keeps bonds for lifetime so that when they are reunited they are happy to see them even after the bond would normally be gone
• Smart: Easier to train (IF they add training)

It'd be cool if species have some traits more often than others. I'd like it to be possible for each species to have each trait, though.

Cool! I like the perch idea. In combination with, in non-sandbox game modes, it needs to be closed top I think it'd be perfect solution. IF, you are playing Franchise mode and you don't have a top to your exhibit the birds could escape.

the new planet coaster 2 pathing mechanics and light physics

+1 to all the above alongside my ideas of course

 

[RightWhale]

Ok, I’m gonna summarize my thoughts from above. Also add to them a bit more.

1. We need new educational pieces, be it signs, skeletons, etc.
2. We need aviaries, that have to be mesh top or indoors. These aviaries have placeable enrichment items that are used like climbing pieces. Allowing the birds to fly up to them and between them.
3. Small birds like budgies and lorikeets can still work in the WTE.
4. The exhibit boxes should be opened to new animals, maybe with new fish tank settings.

Here is some other new stuff: an actual good seasonal system. Besides the time going way too fast in PZ1, I think it would be great to reward players for active seasonal management. Around October you can do a Boo at the Zoo to raise more money, just one example.

Look at how cute something like this would be!

Likewise another example is engaging in conservation outside of releasing animals, and also I want animal release to be a more fixed system.

1. You can send staff to the “field” for research and help
2. You can support other organizations and buy land
3. You have to choose to engage in an active release program, which will require active effort than just clicking release. Animals would have to be raised away from guests, likewise you will need special staff.
4. You may get a message that an animal needs your help, an abandoned pet, illegal animal, wildlife injury. You can choose to help the animal, and if it’s too hurt you can send it somewhere else or keep it.

 

[SanRazo]

Ok, I’m gonna summarize my thoughts from above. Also add to them a bit more.

1. We need new educational pieces, be it signs, skeletons, etc.
2. We need aviaries, that have to be mesh top or indoors. These aviaries have placeable enrichment items that are used like climbing pieces. Allowing the birds to fly up to them and between them.
3. Small birds like budgies and lorikeets can still work in the WTE.
4. The exhibit boxes should be opened to new animals, maybe with new fish tank settings.

Here is some other new stuff: an actual good seasonal system. Besides the time going way too fast in PZ1, I think it would be great to reward players for active seasonal management. Around October you can do a Boo at the Zoo to raise more money, just one example.
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Look at how cute something like this would be!

Likewise another example is engaging in conservation outside of releasing animals, and also I want animal release to be a more fixed system.

1. You can send staff to the “field” for research and help
2. You can support other organizations and buy land
3. You have to choose to engage in an active release program, which will require active effort than just clicking release. Animals would have to be raised away from guests, likewise you will need special staff.
4. You may get a message that an animal needs your help, an abandoned pet, illegal animal, wildlife injury. You can choose to help the animal, and if it’s too hurt you can send it somewhere else or keep it.

+1 to all the ideas here

 

[synthetase]

You can support other organizations and buy land

It'd be cool if, either in Traditional Franchise or maybe a new Franchise and/or Challenge mode if in order to start a new zoo you have to buy land and/or research a new area.
And you could transfer animals between challenge zoos. And you can choose any area to place your first zoo but after that its a bit more than just throwing conservation credits away. You have to research an area and it would be easier to get a new area in the same continent than one across the globe. And lastly, different animals have higher probability to show up in different biomes/continents. It could be because they are kept in zoos in that continent a lot or: they are a wildlife that needs help. You could even have wildlife rescues where if you release an eligible animal after it gets better/healed you get a lot of conservation credits.

You may get a message that an animal needs your help, an abandoned pet, illegal animal, wildlife injury. You can choose to help the animal, and if it’s too hurt you can send it somewhere else or keep it.

+1 to both quotes!

 

[RightWhale]

I’m kind of on a role and thought of something else, auto generated Zoo News

1. New habitats and animals will get an article
2. New babies will get news
3. New buildings or upcoming events will be featured
4. Likewise any conservation efforts will be mentioned.

This can be shared IRL with console and Steam friends. Likewise by clicking on a player on the globe you can keep track of what they have done in their zoos!