Yeah you dont want petting zoos we got it. No need to be so nasty about it
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I want petting mechanics, but not a petting zoo pack if that makes sense
i want it for docile animals like quokkas, wallabies, maras, etc. Don't care at all about domestic goats, pigs or chicks. I want ducks and rabbits though and Highlands cows and Shetland ponies are cute.
I want petting Mechanics. Just giving them a good old Head Rub after they've repaired something
Also the humans in Planet zoo look WAY too unrealistic to do anything other than walk around with balloons or look at the animals, I can't see those cartoony models sit down with realistic looking rabbits or pet goats, it's not going to happen in PLanet zoo 1, I personally wouldn't mind it can't happen in Planet Zoo 2 as well.
I dont want petting mechanics.
I dont mind them, but guests suck anyways, they are ugly, noisy and ruin the performance so i vastly prefer playing the zoo without them.
Im absolutly on board for petting zoo animals or features like the new modular giftshops as i can build them and have fun with it, but the part where guests actually interact with it you lost me. I dont want these frame rate dropping hooligans to trash my zoo and i especally do not care to watch them do stuff.
It would be the kind of thing that everyone would be excited about at release but once everyone saw the youtuber update reviews and saw the animations they will maybe once try to trigger them in game and afterwards forget about it.
Even wheelchairs and strollers would make for a better update as those atleast would mean that theoretically we have to adjust our builds for them, nevermind that building stairs in the game is an ugly pain thats usually not worth it.
So yeah guess thats my unpopular take of the day, update that includes guests = dead content (for me)
I dont mind them, but guests suck anyways, they are ugly, noisy and ruin the performance so i vastly prefer playing the zoo without them.
Im absolutly on board for petting zoo animals or features like the new modular giftshops as i can build them and have fun with it, but the part where guests actually interact with it you lost me. I dont want these frame rate dropping hooligans to trash my zoo and i especally do not care to watch them do stuff.
It would be the kind of thing that everyone would be excited about at release but once everyone saw the youtuber update reviews and saw the animations they will maybe once try to trigger them in game and afterwards forget about it.
Even wheelchairs and strollers would make for a better update as those atleast would mean that theoretically we have to adjust our builds for them, nevermind that building stairs in the game is an ugly pain thats usually not worth it.
So yeah guess thats my unpopular take of the day, update that includes guests = dead content (for me)
If guests would look any more realistic than they do the game would probably become unplayable for almost everyone. If i imagine even only 200 photorealistic humans walking around my zoo my computer would probably explode
Me when i got 3 habitats allready ready for the new pack cause it perfectly fits my taste and plans
Exactly, that's why the petting zoo dream, stays a dream, for most, for me like you already know it's a nightmare that stays locked up behind ugly pixels.
Yep the Gelada nice super masterpiece will make a great addition to the game!
There are Dutch zoo's that had petting zoo sections (like Blijdorp for instance), but they got rid of them. Mostly (I think) because many children are litte sh*ts that can't behave and mishandled/hurt animals aren't a good look. Many small private zoo's still have a petting zoo even if it's only some goats and rabbits.
Personally I would buy a petting zoo pack, because I like petting zoo's and digital animals can't get hurt.
My unpopular opinion is:
- we had enough bears, sloth bear didn't add anything for me
- the saiga is not much seen in Zoo's, I would have rather had a blackbuck if anything
I'm glad for sloth bear!
I need to be more grateful! I'm too fixated on my favorite group even though it truly is very well represented. I hope for a tanuki or grayish fox but if we don't get either I should be content...
So Thank you Frontier for all new content. Frontier could lock update features in the DLC yet they don't... They listen to the community. They are truthfully one of the best developers that cares about their consumers!
I need to be more grateful! I'm too fixated on my favorite group even though it truly is very well represented. I hope for a tanuki or grayish fox but if we don't get either I should be content...
So Thank you Frontier for all new content. Frontier could lock update features in the DLC yet they don't... They listen to the community. They are truthfully one of the best developers that cares about their consumers!
Some of my current opinions that I think are unpopular:
- We need more African antelope in the game - just of types that we don’t have. Especially smaller species like Kirk’s dik-dik and klipspringer. Asia is fine but Arabian oryx, blackbuck and nilgai would be nice (plus the banteng)
- Deer are severely underrepresented and we ideally need at least a sambar, wapiti, chevrotain and pudu.
- Similarly there is a lot of hate over carnivores. However, we desperately need mongooses, civets, small cats and distinct wild dogs.
This is bait. I frequented Philadelphia zoo my whole life and I can assure you that the majority of their animals are not ungulates, it's primates. I currently live near and am a member of Riverbanks zoo which the majority of animals are reptiles and birds, not ungulates. You also clearly have a bias for ungulates, and that's fine. You and Frontier being biased isn't necessarily a criticsm it's just stating a fact. I'm just calling a spade a spade. No need to get so defensive. I've been a huge advocate on this board for completely changing up the biodiversity in packs as more often than not I've called out the ungulate, canine, feline pattern we were getting for a good while. I personally want more rodents, lagomorphs, parsimians, primates, marsupials, civets, reptiles, amphibians, birds and invertebrates. A lot of more casual players really don't care what is in a real zoo and I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is a game and zootierliste and AZA information is irrelevant. There are enough roster options for both realism and fictional what if dream zoos. If you want to argue that point I'm going to shut it down by saying chelonians and anura are the most endangered order of fauna on the planet and are so misrepresented in a game about conservation it makes my head spin. Also sloth bear was one of the best animal choices in game and I'd gladly cut an ungulate from the roster to keep it seeing as in a game with a roster of over 180 animals the vast majority are hoofstock.
I don't think it is, generally ungulates make up the majority of large accredited zoos although there is always one zoo in a region that specialises in a certain animal group instead of the standard ungulates.
Yeah, a lot of our zoos, while having a fair amount of ungulates, will also usually have about the same if not more species of birds. They're really the biggest group kept in our zoos
From what I've seen it's a much more balanced roster of animals throughout large US zoos, some zoos do have impressive amounts of ungulates but those are uncommon to their European counterparts.
Guess that happens when most european zoos were a park at some point
Summary of every north american zoo history
- Mayor gifted animal either a local animal such as a bear or exotic animal like some monkeys
- Mayor places animal in cage in a city park
- Collection grows full of random animals
- Collection requires better management, zoo organisation setup
- Exotic diverse animals are often more attractive because capitalism
- animal welfare happens, zoo focuses on conservation and focuses on better habitat design