As much as I love Planet Zoo, there's something that gets me on my nerves, and I know many people think the same way, since this has been mentioned quite often on the forums and on YouTube, even by some of the most popular youtubers. I'm talking about the beautiful but completely inconsistent signs for the animals in the game (and lack of them for many animals too).
For your reptiles, you can choose among these signs:
As you can see, the larger your croc is, the smaller the sign it gets (to the point that for the largest crocodile, the salty, the sign is so small that it doesn't even exist). Are you using giant tortoises? Sorry, no signs for you! Do you have a small terrapin? Here you have two enormous signs! Nile monitors and Komodo dragons? Nope.
Are you going for an Australian area? Let's see:
You can only use the same design for 3 animals. If you have more, then you must mix different styles.
If you are building a South America or a North America area, once again you will find trouble finding a coherent style for your zoo:
Special mention to the tiny polar bear sign. It looks fantastic on those huge habitats (if you have a magnifying glass to find it, that's it).
The good old Europe suffers too:
What about Asia? There are many animals there, so it should be easier to have a larger number of signs in the same style, right? Wrong!
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I didn't even dare to try Africa.
Please, don't get me wrong, all the signs look fantastic, but we lack one common design that we can use no matter what we are building. Billboards don't substitute these signs. Please, Frontier, consider this for a future update before it is too late.
Edit: updated the last picture to include new DLCs
For your reptiles, you can choose among these signs:
As you can see, the larger your croc is, the smaller the sign it gets (to the point that for the largest crocodile, the salty, the sign is so small that it doesn't even exist). Are you using giant tortoises? Sorry, no signs for you! Do you have a small terrapin? Here you have two enormous signs! Nile monitors and Komodo dragons? Nope.
Are you going for an Australian area? Let's see:
You can only use the same design for 3 animals. If you have more, then you must mix different styles.
If you are building a South America or a North America area, once again you will find trouble finding a coherent style for your zoo:
Special mention to the tiny polar bear sign. It looks fantastic on those huge habitats (if you have a magnifying glass to find it, that's it).
The good old Europe suffers too:
What about Asia? There are many animals there, so it should be easier to have a larger number of signs in the same style, right? Wrong!
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I didn't even dare to try Africa.
Please, don't get me wrong, all the signs look fantastic, but we lack one common design that we can use no matter what we are building. Billboards don't substitute these signs. Please, Frontier, consider this for a future update before it is too late.
Edit: updated the last picture to include new DLCs
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