What did you do in Planet Zoo today?

Let's wishlist the plushies then lol
For me:

  • gorilla
  • giraffe
  • rhino
  • gibbon
  • capybara
  • red panda
  • tiger
I'll add:
  • Polar or grizzly bear
  • a primate like gorilla, gibbon, chimp
  • wild boar or warthog for a pig
  • every big cat! I had a snow leopard, tiger and lion plushies for almost my entire childhood. At least a tiger and leopard
  • Grey seal (my current irl plushie)
  • birds like the swan
 
All those gift shop pieces were worth the wait, no more ugly gift shops.

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Never really done proper lighting work in my zoos before that especially works at night. Often i throw hundreds of spotlights underground to brighten up buildings without adding actual lights inside. Here's a look at some of the lights of the calgary zoo from pathway entrance lights, far too many lights inside the gift shop and even some guidance lights in the tunnels.

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Finally had some time and made this bird cages.
In the background the lake is almost completely "wild". There are still 4 enclosures missing. Combination building for giraffes, zebras and antelopes, the elephant house, a cage for chimpanzees and a tiny concrete ring for porcupines...
and then the work really begins :LOL:
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And of course as usual, just when I think its over the zoo loads again.
Not really the best timing cause I sent in my ticket into frontier support saying it has crashed countless times over and over which is true, but then it loads. I updated my PC, still didn't load so I was sure that it needed frontiers help, but then I found a couple more small updates to the system and did those and its up and running again. Idk for how long, I'm sure this won't solve anything permanently but hopefully long enough to get a video out soon.
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And of course as usual, just when I think its over the zoo loads again.
Not really the best timing cause I sent in my ticket into frontier support saying it has crashed countless times over and over which is true, but then it loads. I updated my PC, still didn't load so I was sure that it needed frontiers help, but then I found a couple more small updates to the system and did those and its up and running again. Idk for how long, I'm sure this won't solve anything permanently but hopefully long enough to get a video out soon.
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Im still thinking this is possibly performance related when loading the zoo. The zoo seems it must be fine so the file isn't corrupted, the save file must consume a varying amount of ram when loading which if too much will lead to an out of memory crash. The sheer amount of pieces and combined amounts of animals must put quite the stress on the computer.
 
The sheer amount of pieces and combined amounts of animals must put quite the stress on the computer.
Yeah I’m thinking this too, though there’s no animals in the zoo, the piece count I believe is what it is. My computer though has the same specs as Cesar creates that I made sure of when I bought it, except my graphics card is a bit lower quality than his. I wonder how frontier fixed his zoo cause his had to be a problem because of his piece count too.
 
I wonder how frontier fixed his zoo cause his had to be a problem because of his piece count too.
If it was just about piece count and computer hardware, my guess is some poor support person was given a month to cut down the pieces on complex custom builds to make the zoo playable on lower hardware . Basically making the zoo build like mine instead of using hundreds of tiny little details for almost everything, i've seen some of those workshop blueprints which have a ridiculous piece count. I often find myself subscribing to a content creator's workshop blueprint to then never use it because of how performance heavy a single custom rock wall for example is. I'll use the blueprint as inspiration to make one of my own at a fraction of the piece count.
 
Let's wishlist the plushies then lol
For me:

  • gorilla
  • giraffe
  • rhino
  • gibbon
  • capybara
  • red panda
  • tiger
These would all be amazing additions. Though I'm noticing all of the plushies, masks and balloon are from base game animals. I think, at least. Still, a capybara would be awesome and now I want an otter mask. Also, clearly, Tasmanian Devil plushies to make up for the fact we cannot hug them in real life.
 
Honestly the small updates each pack to the frame rate and how well the game runs are really the underrated gems.
Im sure even while my zoo still isnt as piece heavy (even if i allready seem to have lower quality textures because of them), it feels like after each update my zoo runs a bit better, just a little bit, but combined with how much i tend to build inbetween i gotta say its impressive that the stuff even goes up.

Whoever it is at frontier who optimises the game little by little each pack, your doing an amazing job
 
These would all be amazing additions. Though I'm noticing all of the plushies, masks and balloon are from base game animals. I think, at least. Still, a capybara would be awesome and now I want an otter mask. Also, clearly, Tasmanian Devil plushies to make up for the fact we cannot hug them in real life.
Yeah sure. I mean I've seen plenty of Tassie plushies in Taronga and Bungarribee, so why not lol
 
These would all be amazing additions. Though I'm noticing all of the plushies, masks and balloon are from base game animals. I think, at least. Still, a capybara would be awesome and now I want an otter mask. Also, clearly, Tasmanian Devil plushies to make up for the fact we cannot hug them in real life.
There is a red eyed tree frog plushie and the rhino hat while it could be for the indian rhino looks way more like an african rhino than it does and asian one. Other than that the prezwalskis horse and capybara make it onto images used on the other merch items like cups and shirts.

We still need dlc animal plushies especially they make up well over half the ingame roster at this point. I can guarantee any new scenery packs we get will have plushies of its dlc animals as part of the item sets.
 
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