The Biome map for Australia should be modified to reduce the Tropical area along the east coast and limit it to the North East Coast only. Mid and South East coast should be Temperate. (Probably the same deal with New Zealand BTW) I really want to build on a temperate biome in Australia and this is the biome the majority of Australians actually live in. The tropical rainforest in Australia is unique and special, it doesn't occur down the entire coast. Koalas live in temperate Biome - you even put it in their zoopedia. Why not update the map of Australia so Koalas can actually live in their proper biome on their continent? :S
I agree, but they’ve said they won’t change biomes on the globe (when they mate a change to China) - I actually think it’s mostly ok for Australia (Mediterranean = grassland) but for Tasmania and especially NZ, it’s way off!
The updates to the game's source map on Wikipedia are almost complete. When that is complete, I'll be creating a thread on the forum asking for a comprehensive (not for a single region like it has been requested for China in the past) one time change to the game's front-end globe. Hopefully the devs will listen despite the earlier statement they made after the changes to China. That suggestion will hopefully fix all the issues with the biomes map at once.
How do you think the Devs will handle existing saved games, specifically Franchise zoos? If the map changes does the biome of the previously created zoo change as well? Or, do you think the map change should only affect new zoos, leaving the existing zoos as a biome that no longer matches the map?
My fear is that the map data is 'frozen' in a way that makes changes overly cumbersome to implement and maintain. The change for China might have been a concession that they could do once, ever, without significant breakages to existing saved games.
(also, Frontier should hire you to do research and accuracy review before updates are released!)
No, those details are saved with the save file. Just like they did with Planet coaster. So it won't have effect on older saves.
They use a simple system for that where certain terrain types use tags and can be interchanged with each other.
Below a link to more information, of how they used it in Planco. Surely it's the same in Planet Zoo.
Custom Environment
Custom Environment is a flexible environment created due to player feedback. Rather than having only one biome type, this new environment allows players to create a park with a base terrain, a separate ambiance, and pre-determined terrain paints. This option is available for the Sandbox and...
planetcoaster.fandom.com
Like Luuknoord said, the saved games shouldn't be affected. However I don't know what will happen to the pin on the map (in Franchise mode). It will either shift to the closest point on the map with the same biome, or remain on the exact same spot but on the new biome type (different to the pin itself). I didn't have any zoos in that part of China when the change was made, so I don't know which of the two possibilities actually takes effect. If anybody had a zoo in said region before the change, they could potentially enlighten us.
As a fellow Aussie I can tell you this is most definitely needed. I do hope we get a revision to the game's map, and not just for Australia.
