Some suggestions + dlc ideas

[Bongoloid]

hey guys ill just start by saying im dyslexic so my spelling might be a bit off here and there, ill try my best to keep it all readable

love the game was addicted to the original zoo tycoons and this is just amazing but few lil things ive found might be helpful for players ill try and make a list then go to the dlc ideas, also i understand every thing is work and time so im not just gonna throw a load of undo-able things at you then expect them, its more if the devs do see this and think its a good idea, great, if not oh well games great any way,

~ in the zoopedia it would be nice to have a lil search bar to save scrolling up and down to find what im looking for especially as more dlcs come out and the list gets longer
~ it would be nice to have a setting to make the effect (waterfall and mist) objects invisible cause some times i can see the lil black things and it just bugs me xD
~ this one abit harder probity not possible but you never know, to be able to add angled water so i can make rivers that arnt flat
~ i use alot of rocks and more of a spare time thing but be nice if was a few more rocks so when building walls n stuff it dnt look to repeated, need some more big ones and a few lil ones for habitats
~ for some reason the log barriers cant bend like the brick wall, recently been working with the log barriers and making a circle leaves u with lots of small straight ones
~ again not easy, but a way to disable windows on facility's for when your trying to put them inside or like close to each other, just purely for cosmetics again
~ i seen a thread but ill post it again, in sand box be nice to make it so enrichment doesn't get boring to the animals
~ i like to build animal houses for them to sleep that are also a viewing area for public, some 1 way constructable glass would realy be helpful, cause at the mo i have to try n get a barrier in just right

Dlcs,

this wasn't my first idea and i imagine there is already a thread on the forums, but an Australia pack would be nice cause not only are the animals amazing maybe give some of the proceeds to aussy charity's before any one jumps in to say by time its made it'll be to late, i understand making animals, plants and every thing else it takes time, and im the sorta person that would rather have a long wait then a half job, but i feel like late is better then never, the charity's will always be grateful and its gonna take a long time for them to recover as a country, but due to the fact the koalas have been hit so hard, if some of these animals do go extinct it would be nice to have them immortalised in this game so the memory can live on, also for a new info board it would be wise to bring light to the fact that idea to ban back burning which the aboriginals have done since the dawn of time in the winter to keep the fuel down so large fires dnt happen in the hotter months, is not good and the land needs to be maintained in a controlled way, a few creatures might get hurt, but i think as these fires prove a few is better then all god bless the aussy creatures, but yh better late then never would be a very nice gesture from you guys, and id love to have some koalas in my zoo, tho you might need to make the area bigger for me to fit every thing in

my actual 2 ideas ive had since playing the game

Avery's, in my local zoos we have lots of bird Avery's built with owls, birds of paradise, quails, parrots, i wont give a massive list plus its better to let you choose cause you guys are the ones doing the work, ive put a bit of thought into it not just hey i want birds, but like if you could build a Avery's kinda size of a large zoo keeper hut, a big staff room maybe even slightly bigger, that's how they are in my local zoos, similar to the lil exhibits in the game already you could make it so you have the 3 unlockable tabs to add plants branches and heat lamps n stuff like that, then add a new tab for buying and selling birds, could also make it so multiple bird can be in the same cage, just have the unlockables the same for both birds to keep it simple as a game idea

Fish tanks, again similar to the Avery's almost a clone tbh, make them size of the ll exhibit box do a 2 long and a 3 long, unlockable set ups, people may prefer to build habitats but when im at a zoo i like to see as many living things as i can, just because its contained in the a exhibit box don't make it easy i know but be nice to be able to add more variety to my zoo basically same idea as Avery's but fish, room for a fish tab aswell

this aint so much a dlc but lil things u can throw in as if i aint already gave you years of work already xD in most zoos ive been to we have lil mammals in cages probily the size of the exhibit box, chipmunks, squirrels stuff like that but again probily not enough for a add-on but just lil things to spice it up

again this is purly for the devs to see if they haven't got these ideas already then they may like them, like i said before if and when i dnt care on time, id happly pay for more dlcs i wanna keep you guys payed n working as long as possible £10 for the artic pack i felt was just right, not to much but a good price, id pay more if the dlc was bigger, keep up the good work devs this game is truly amazing, i voted for it in the steam awards was pretty shocked it didn't win tbh

 

[ElectricMonk]

...also for a new info board it would be wise to bring light to the fact that idea to ban back burning which the aboriginals have done since the dawn of time in the winter to keep the fuel down so large fires dnt happen in the hotter months, is not good and the land needs to be maintained in a controlled way, a few creatures might get hurt, but i think as these fires prove a few is better then all

By this, I assume you mean that backfiring shouldn't be banned, and that it currently is (or some group is suggesting that it should be)? If so, you're under a misapprehension. Backburning is not banned and is supported by all Australian political parties (including the Greens). There has been some discussion (especially in the conservative media) about this, and blaming the fires on a lack of backburning. However, experts (including virtually all fire ecologists and fire chiefs) have repeatedly and clearly shown and stated that this is not the case.

Whilst backburning can reduce fire risk in the short term (1 year), when done near inhabited areas, there's no evidence that broad scale burning reduces fire risk. Indeed, in the medium term, backburing increases fire risk because it increases and dries undergrowth that fuels fires. In the longer term, backburning further increases fire risk because it increases the proportion of plants that reproduce via fire, which tend to be highly flammable.

Just thought I'd bring this up, since there's been a lot of misinformation being promulgated about this issue. For more information, HERE'S an ABC report about backburning and there's plenty more available if you want to know more.