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The Planet Zoo Award Show | Season 2
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Alright I know I’m early but no one’s voting anymore and I’m kinda bored and have time now while I might not have any tomorrow so let’s get to the results!
First category of the week was “Best Rep of a SINGLE Continent” let’s see who won that…
And Oceania also deserves a mention for making a delayed but worthy comeback
And the second category was the opposite, “Best Rep of ALL Continents” in which we finally see the underdog (imo) take a crown…
First category of the week was “Best Rep of a SINGLE Continent” let’s see who won that…
And Oceania also deserves a mention for making a delayed but worthy comeback
I’ll reveal the next category tomorrow when everyone’s more active on the forums 
We are now over halfway of the scenery pack section of the competition! Onto week 4!
March 13th - 15th
“Best Animals to Build for”
Vote for the scenery pack with the best animals to build for. You aren’t allowed to consider the pieces with this decision, strictly the animals.
March 13th - 15th
“Best Animals to Build for”
Vote for the scenery pack with the best animals to build for. You aren’t allowed to consider the pieces with this decision, strictly the animals.
Africa for me.
Both meerkats and the penguins are way up there among my favorite animals to build for. The fennec and rhino are fun aswell
South America!
A climbing monkey
A walkthrough llama
A diving and climbing big cat
A giant anteater that can be mixed with many other animals
And I like building frog houses too!
Oh wow this one is harder than i thought
SA is very versatile. Climbing monkey, diving Big cat ( and is the cat i enjoy building for the most), petting zoo llama and mixed enclosure that world for Wetlands and Grasslands anteater. Also great exhibit box animal that works very well as filler animal in between SA habitats.
África has some of the most fun animals in the game. I love building for meerkats and penguins. Rhino is just a big ungulate but good for mixed savannah exhibits but i think i enjoy anteaters more.
Aquatic looses with the Cuvier's caiman, rest are awesome and fun to build for. I love otters and seals the most. And the penguin allows for a different build than the african one.
Europe is not very varied in terms of biomes although all four animals also work with different mechanics: climbing cat, climbing mountain goat, petting zoo deer and burrowing badger. Still i prefer the SA selection over them.
Tropical has great animal designs and gibbons and super fun to watch (even though building climbing frame for them is kind of hard for me), fossa doesn't really work any different than climbing cats, red river hogs are versatile for mixed enclosure combos but is the same than building for warthogs and peccaries. I don't care much about water monitora. If they would climbed they would be more interesting.
Conservation has mainly the siamang going for it. Horses and Oryx are nice but need pretty much the same as any other ungulates: an Open kind of barren enclosure. And i prefer the jaguar over the leopard.
Australia is a good one with kangaroo, koala and Cassowary but gets behind with the Dingo.
Arctic is not a pack i found interesting in general. I like the polar bear and dall sheep the most.
So summarizing my vote goes to South América.
SA is very versatile. Climbing monkey, diving Big cat ( and is the cat i enjoy building for the most), petting zoo llama and mixed enclosure that world for Wetlands and Grasslands anteater. Also great exhibit box animal that works very well as filler animal in between SA habitats.
África has some of the most fun animals in the game. I love building for meerkats and penguins. Rhino is just a big ungulate but good for mixed savannah exhibits but i think i enjoy anteaters more.
Aquatic looses with the Cuvier's caiman, rest are awesome and fun to build for. I love otters and seals the most. And the penguin allows for a different build than the african one.
Europe is not very varied in terms of biomes although all four animals also work with different mechanics: climbing cat, climbing mountain goat, petting zoo deer and burrowing badger. Still i prefer the SA selection over them.
Tropical has great animal designs and gibbons and super fun to watch (even though building climbing frame for them is kind of hard for me), fossa doesn't really work any different than climbing cats, red river hogs are versatile for mixed enclosure combos but is the same than building for warthogs and peccaries. I don't care much about water monitora. If they would climbed they would be more interesting.
Conservation has mainly the siamang going for it. Horses and Oryx are nice but need pretty much the same as any other ungulates: an Open kind of barren enclosure. And i prefer the jaguar over the leopard.
Australia is a good one with kangaroo, koala and Cassowary but gets behind with the Dingo.
Arctic is not a pack i found interesting in general. I like the polar bear and dall sheep the most.
So summarizing my vote goes to South América.
Southeast Asia.
This is only scenery packs
Then South America.
South America as the selection of animals is often far more interesting to build for than other packs, the jaguar is a personal favourite of mine to build for and the llama also allows for domestic petting zoo habitats.
Time for an overly thorough analysis:
Arctic - Polar Bears are good but require a LOT of space and water. The others are kinda “meh” for me.
South America - I’m not the biggest fan of building habitats that feature lush jungles or forests. I just find placing so much foliage to be pretty tedious, but it’s worth it to see the end result.
Australia - It’s not the best but pretty good.
Aquatic - The aquatic animals are fun to build for, and the caiman is harmless at best.
Africa - I consistently enjoy building for the white rhino and meerkat, and the penguin brings in some of the fun from the Aquatic Pack. The fennec fox is pretty good.
Europe - There’s not much variety, and forests aren’t my favorite to build for.
Conservation - I LOVE building for primates, especially brachiating ones. Also, I don’t mind the open barren spaces that the scimitar oryx and Przewalski’s horse require. Limits like that allow me to stretch my creative muscles.
Twilight - While I enjoy building smaller habitats, Oceania outdoes Twilight for me in that way, even if the arboreal raccoon is neat to build for.
Tropical - While the gibbon is fun, dense forests aren’t my favorite.
Oceania - It’s nice to build for smaller animals sometimes, and it adds some aquatic fun with the penguins.
Overall, it was a hard decision between Aquatic and Africa, but I’m going with Africa as my final answer.
My rankings of the packs by the best animals to build for:
- Tropical: Gibbons are fun to build for, and I like the colorful one. Although I don't generally like them, pigs are fun to build for, and this pack has the only pig I like. Fossas and other small arboreal animals are fun to build for. There is even a diving animal in the AWM. It's nice to use all of the tropical plants to build habitats.
- South America: I probably actually build for these animals the most. Giant anteaters are cool. I like building for big cats, and the jaguar is one of my favorites. There is a monkey, which is fun. Sometimes I go for an Andean theme with the llamas and other times I go for the barnyard theme. It, the bison (we farm them here), and the Dromedary are probably the most versatile ungulates.
- Conservation: It has a gibbon and another nice cat. Hoofstock aren't always the most interesting, but they are at least good ones.
- Europe: It's got a highly useful small cat, a goat, a walkthrough deer, and a burrower. Very nice.
- Australia: I use 3 of these animals a lot, and I especially love building for cassowaries.
- Africa: I'm not a big semi-aquatic builder, but the penguin is different. I love building for rhinos, and the two small mammals are good ones.
- Twilight: Raccoons have interesting habitat requirements, and I like burrowers.
- Oceania: Lots of small animals that I'm not familiar with. Building for kiwi's and quokkas was fun. I was kind of sad/amused/annoyed when I tried to build a restaurant inside of a blue penguin exhibit and the guests refused to eat there because they were afraid of "dangerous" animals. I should send them all to the giant anteater walkthrough habitat.
- Aquatic: I get very frustrated trying to build underwater viewing areas and thus barely use these animals.
- Arctic: The polar bear is annoying to build for. The ungulates are okay. I love the wolf.
South America
Toss up between Aquatic, Oceania, and South America for me. I love building for semi-aquatic species (and I love building indoor exhibits for animals like the king penguin), so Aquatic easily ranks pretty high. Oceania is really varied as it has a species great for nocturnal houses, a really unique species in the Tassie (looking at real devil exhibits they’re all relatively unique, being a small carnivore, but unlike most carnivorans you can get away with keeping the walls/fences pretty low. There isn’t much else in the game like it for realistic buildings - same goes for the kiwi to an arguably even greater extent.), and the quokka is a nice filler for a simple looking, but cute habitat. I tend to love building cozy enclosures for smaller species in general and
Oceania fits that bill the best out of any pack IMO..
I think South America just barely wins this one though. I love building for arboreal species and the capuchin is amazing (please Frontier give us more monkeys, they are so much fun to build for and I will never understand the avoidance). The jag is fun as it’s both a semi-aquatic animal and a climber, and the anteater is well, a giant anteater - there’s really nothing else like it and it has loads of mixed species potential, plus lots of biome diversity (same for the jag on the latter). Even the llama adds some spice to the usual ungulate habitats by being a domestic species with far different habitat design.
This is just from the perspective of a realistic builder though, I can understand how silly some of my reasoning might sound to a fantasy builder who puts kiwi in outdoor yards or any ungulate in a farm exhibit lol.
Oceania fits that bill the best out of any pack IMO..
I think South America just barely wins this one though. I love building for arboreal species and the capuchin is amazing (please Frontier give us more monkeys, they are so much fun to build for and I will never understand the avoidance). The jag is fun as it’s both a semi-aquatic animal and a climber, and the anteater is well, a giant anteater - there’s really nothing else like it and it has loads of mixed species potential, plus lots of biome diversity (same for the jag on the latter). Even the llama adds some spice to the usual ungulate habitats by being a domestic species with far different habitat design.
This is just from the perspective of a realistic builder though, I can understand how silly some of my reasoning might sound to a fantasy builder who puts kiwi in outdoor yards or any ungulate in a farm exhibit lol.
Call me crazy, but I actually enjoyed building for the Arctic DLC animals most.
I need to think about it for a bit longer. I loved building for SA , European, Australian and Arctic animals the most. At the moment can't decide my favorite 
So while i understand the trend for south america, imo theres a pack that hits all the same high notes with extras: Tropical
Its ironic cause i have build for none of these animals in game but if we are just talking about varried and fun habitats they are pretty great.
We got a small, agile arboreal carnivoran thats also a great fit for nocturnal houses, a pig which are arguably the most fun ungulates to build for, a monitor that can dive, opening up the opportunity for underwater viewings and a habitat reptile, a sloth which objectivly sucks but hey still more creative opportunitys then with a Standard exhibit and thd best part, a gibbon, arguably the most fun climber in the game to build for.
Might be a whatever filler pack in the grand sceme of things but as a standalone its pretty fire
Its ironic cause i have build for none of these animals in game but if we are just talking about varried and fun habitats they are pretty great.
We got a small, agile arboreal carnivoran thats also a great fit for nocturnal houses, a pig which are arguably the most fun ungulates to build for, a monitor that can dive, opening up the opportunity for underwater viewings and a habitat reptile, a sloth which objectivly sucks but hey still more creative opportunitys then with a Standard exhibit and thd best part, a gibbon, arguably the most fun climber in the game to build for.
Might be a whatever filler pack in the grand sceme of things but as a standalone its pretty fire
It's funny how we experience it differently! For me, Tropical DLC was the most meh of all. I somewhat like the RRH and that's all.
My top 5 building-wise are SA, Europe (I love building for lynxes, badgers, and especially Ibex), Australia (kangaroo, koala, cassowary, 3 x NICE) Arctic (building a big habitat for the bear is quite rewarding, reindeer are cute, sheep are the only sheep in the game, the wolf is a bit repetitive), and Oceania (I loved building for Kiwis, and Devils).
I think my vote goes to South America. Llamas may be my favorite to build for in general, building for the jaguar presents an interesting challenge, anteater is amazing and possible to combine with other species, and capuchins are small and fun. Another frog for EX may be a bit underwhelming, but it's the most colorful frog in the game.
For me, Tropical DLC was the most meh of all. I somewhat like the RRH and that's all.My top 5 building-wise are SA, Europe (I love building for lynxes, badgers, and especially Ibex), Australia (kangaroo, koala, cassowary, 3 x NICE) Arctic (building a big habitat for the bear is quite rewarding, reindeer are cute, sheep are the only sheep in the game, the wolf is a bit repetitive), and Oceania (I loved building for Kiwis, and Devils).
I think my vote goes to South America. Llamas may be my favorite to build for in general, building for the jaguar presents an interesting challenge, anteater is amazing and possible to combine with other species, and capuchins are small and fun. Another frog for EX may be a bit underwhelming, but it's the most colorful frog in the game.
Africa for sure. All fun animals to build for.