The big problem of Planet Zoo signs

[Captain Callum]

Updated with grasslands signs:

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The signs of the new pack (except the butterflies) continue the nice trend of being similar to the last ones, which is good. I wish the butterflies had gotten normal signs too and that the wallaby sign was a bit smaller in size.

The butterflies are a weird one, I find the south American butterfly light works much better as a general sign (light off) than these new ones

 

[Sarajt2011]

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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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.

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Edit: updated the last picture to include new DLCs

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:
View attachment 308676
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:
View attachment 308677
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:
View attachment 308678
View attachment 308679
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:
View attachment 308680

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!
View attachment 308963

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.

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Edit: updated the last picture to include new DLCs

How is this not a thing yet!! It makes it really hard to make a themed area like a reptile house, or bear area and have matching signs! Also, the amount of animals that don't have any signs is astounding to me.Honestly at this point I would buy this as an additional "pack" if it was possible. Although if it was signs or new animals? New animals probably...

Based on the most recent signs I think my favorites or top votes would be:
1. Grasslands
2. Conservation
3. The base game faces
4. Southeast asia

 

[Sarajt2011]

I think if I had to chose, I'd want Frontier to do a whole animal pack in the base white plastic silhouettes and the same in the whole roster in the aquatic style - the plastic ones are super boring but at least they are also super generic and the aquatic style I think is fairly attractive while also being pretty universal.

The north american style can die in a fire, tho.

As soon as the North American pack came out I was instantly sad about the signs. I can not and will not ever use them. They are way too themed for me and way too cartoonish. For a game that prides itself on being realistic those signs really threw me off as I don't think any zoo I've been too has had cartoon like signs...

 

[AlexSea]

If I had to choose a style for all animal signs, I'd go with the style from the Grasslands Animal Pack. I don't think it looks too cartooney, while also looking like an art style that an actual zoo might use.

 

[Aramar]

I edited the original post and added the tropical pack signs, which are nice and in line with the grassland signs. This is the way, Frontier!

 

[abigenius]

If I had to choose a style for all animal signs, I'd go with the style from the Grasslands Animal Pack. I don't think it looks too cartooney, while also looking like an art style that an actual zoo might use.

Well in fact since the conservation pack all the new signs have the same style, the Twilight, Grassland, Tropical and the conservation pack all have the same style and a littl bit the wetlands pack as well, because they listened to us when we said that we should have the same style in the signs

 

[Hanged_Stan]

I just want more animal signs that are generic and not highly themed to be honest. The grasslands and tropical packs have that down pat.

 

[RedPandaReggie]

I just want more animal signs that are generic and not highly themed to be honest. The grasslands and tropical packs have that down pat.

Those are my favourite signs to use personally, I would love that for the whole roster

 

[shirandhak]

Whatever the style: It is (for me) a no go to use any of these signs, because I can never do all of my animals using signs in the same style. Maybe other people like to interchange sign styles in one zoo - I simply hate that.

 

[DarthQuell]

Aramar, do you mind getting an image of all the base game signs/statues?

I'm quite curious to know which we've gotten, what we may, or may not, be missing

 

[Aramar]

Aramar, do you mind getting an image of all the base game signs/statues?

I'm quite curious to know which we've gotten, what we may, or may not, be missing

Sorry, I'm using an old computer until I get mine back from repair, so the quality of the image is very bad. These are the base game signs:

On the bottom right is the sign that some people think it's a howler monkey while other people think it's a capuchin. That sign and the cobra are the only ones missing their animal in game.

As for the statues, the only missing animals are the cobra and the dodo.

 

[Spartan_Squat]

I read the tamandua is in south american benches.

 

[AlexSea]

As for the statues, the only missing animals are the cobra and the dodo.

I think we can all agree that it's extremely unlikely that we'll get the Dodo.

 

[Firestar97]

I think we can all agree that it's extremely unlikely that we'll get the Dodo.

Compromise: Dodo Reconstruction in Museum Quality together with a taxidermied Great Auk.............. and taxidermied Passenger Pigeon and Carolina Parakeet

 

[Veah]

Compromise: Dodo Reconstruction in Museum Quality together with a taxidermied Great Auk.............. and taxidermied Passenger Pigeon and Carolina Parakeet

That way half of the birds we would have in the game would be extinct species

 

[Firestar97]

That way half of the birds we would have in the game would be extinct species

 

[Khaidu]

All I want is flat flexicolour signs of all current animal shapes in the game in small/med/large and I would be so happy.

 

[Aramar]

Updated! It's a shame that the arid animal pack didn't include a sign for the exhibit animal though. The other only pack which didn't include a sign for the exhibit was the South East Asia animal pack.