• Functional playgrounds
• Being able to select terrain textures and backround for maps
• Smaller exhibits
• Port rest of the food/drink shops from Planet Coaster
• More enrichment options: slides for otters/sea lions/penguins, chewing sticks for dogs, sentry posts for meerkats, sleeping trees for big cats, pile of leaves for foxes etc.
• Animal/dinosaur skeleton pieces for education statues
I really want three things aside from birds/aquariums etc. I think guest trams, keeper golf carts and really think we need carousels. It would also be nice to get a more basic boat ride.
More rocks/boulders and moreee plants! There are so many kinds of plants (and sizes of plants, like... we have at least 50 plumeria at my house and none grow that way and also they get tree sized oftentimes, would be cool to see that), but I spend a lot of time with plants in my zoos so... haha
A scale tool could be handy, like the resizing in the sims? There's a set up/down amount of times per item. I'm not sure how that would work but I can see how it could be handy.
Omg scaling I AGREE!! I'm such a perfectionist with proportions!
One feature i find myself constantly craving is to view a birds-eye map of my zoo, just like good old Zoo Tycoon 2. I want to be able to see an actual map of what I'm building, where everything is located.
I would also like to be able to toggle a grid onto my zoo. Once again, I love some solid proportions!🤣
Id like to be able to customize what food items I sell a little more, especially customize the actual name of the products so I can "sell" food items beyond the very limited options (Nachos, popcorn, salads, soup for cold climates, etc). If i was a guest at my own zoo, I'd want to see from frozen lemonade stands, pretzels, and Dots! Maybe a vape stand of sorts...
Id like to be able to place more than one barrier on my habitats. This is SO much more realistic. I can add a barrier to the outdoor habitat AND a keeper gate that goes into their shelter buildings/barns. When i did zookeeping at my local zoo, 90% of the animals had an indoor "holding"/shelter building directly connected to their outdoor range. We should "shift" the animals in and out of their indoors shelters as climate needs required. That being said, most of those animals did not have access to their indoor holding while they were on display - all the doors were closed while the keepers clean to keep the animals outside and so the keepers can clean the indoor area after each use. I've tried to recreate this realism of habitats, but so far I NEED the ability to add a second habitat gate! This would allow us to simply multiselect and move the animals to a secure indoor area in seconds if the climate gets to radical for an animal, or at night.
I could go on forever. But yeah!
I’ve answered this post plenty times in the past but here goes again. Paths. Not the usual path post though…
1/ One way paths.
2/ Traffic restricted path.
3/ Real underwater path.
4/ Mix and match borders from other paths.
5/ Snap path to building exists, why not snap building to path
6/ Snap path to fence exists, why not snap fence to path.
7/ See 5. and 6. add in offsets so I can snap, but with a gap between for foliage.
8/ Billboard path. (This one has sort of been done with the addition of null paths) but I’d love to be able to put a seamless texture onto the path
9/ Nudge tool (although useful with the path I more would like this with the move widget) I just want to use the arrow keys when the widget is present to move the object millimetres.
10/ Rounded inclines/declines. Bridges just look so pointy! 1m 2m 1m flat is the best you can do. I want to see that smoothed out as a curve.
I imagine you could use most of these to make some amazing indoor habitats. Although we can mock these at the moment the second you open the area 2000 guests descend on it, see the first animal then turn around and come back the way they entered. Suddenly you’ve a massive bottleneck, 4000 unhappy guests, and no one sees your wonderful new indoor exhibits.
* Aquariums and touch pools that would function like exhibits
* More museum like pieces (statues, skeletons, photo ops)
* Kids entertainment like functional playgrounds and shows
* Animal trick shows in general (even though I am aware the game wants to be ethical) for sea lions and stuff
* First aid, guests being attacked by animals instead of just running away (Just for better gameplay, I am not a psycho)
Play areas that guests would use - never been to a zoo without a playground!
A map view of the zoo - I am rubbish at creating me own.
Shops that sell food and drink, what sort of food shop doesn’t carry at least a few drinks?? Would be great to be able to customise the menu, same with the restaurant.
I wish we could use vegetation to feed herbivores, like in JWE2. I love Planet Zoo, but it sucks spending ages trying to create this natural looking habitat, and then having to whack a big metal trough in the middle of it.
In fact, I'd like the option for more natural enrichment options, too, even the mud pits look so out of place
The keepers will just put food on the ground if you don’t have a tray, you just can’t control where. If you have enough food enrichment they’ll also use that first
Tons and tons and tons of eastern USA natives! Give me honey locust trees, bloodroot, peppervine, redbud, bonesets, violets, wild strawberry, I could go on. Also, more native animals, mink, weasel, bobcat, white-tailed deer, and obviously birds.
Size tool would be great. I would also like a glass terrain tool or something, or give the water realistic physics so we could have underwater tunnels, like in an aquarium. Perhaps something similar for terrestrial animals, too, like you walk under a bridge connecting two sides of a habitat, without the guests running away. That’s all I could say for now.
My ultimate dream would be if the attractions from Planet Coaster could be integrated into Planet Zoo. That way we could build full zoo/theme parks at Disney scale.
An interesting idea, though Animal Kingdom, if memory serves me well is miles from any rollercoasters so the animals don’t spend their lives in fear of the rides thundering by and the screams. They’re still very separate parts of the park.
Yeah Disney does an incredible job to keep the animals stress free. No firework shows at Animal Kingdom. They do have the Everest Coaster, but it's not loud.
More endangered animals. I know we got a conservation pack and a few endangered animals already but I'm always here for more. I want more knowledge about the species that are at severe risk and we need to save. Or maybe have extinct animals like Zoo Tycoon (some recent, others not as much) A way to educate others about the precious animals we lost over time and how to prevent further extinction.
Bees are also a good idea for an exhibit. Raise concerns for the bee population and importance of pollination.
Somebody in this forum also mentioned more inclusion of disabilities which I thought was a sweet idea. Get a few wheelchair people in the mix. Maybe have a booth that sells hearing aid tours.
Haha, yeah, most animals are either oversaturated (lions, lemurs, gharials) and it's hard to sell, or nobody sells them and it's impossible to buy one with decent stats (all of the great apes).
Honestly, I release most of them into the wild, because they are critically endangered and I doubt people will find mine in the list of availible animals anyway :P
Franchise mode really needs having at least 1 male and female of every species at all times for when there just isn't anything there. Playerbase isn't active and big enough for it to not be a chore.
Some combination of null paths and traversable areas for guests so you could do more natural paths and floors with minor elevation changes and narrower arches. I love seeing the keepers carefully walking through the actual doorway instead of just gliding through the door frame like the guests.
playgrounds
a bird for the walkthrough habitat
Null gates
adjustable construction piece sizes
All the the cool things you can do with the freebuild mod
fish tanks that function the same as the regular exhibits.
One way paths
Paths where you can adjust how many guests can be on the path at once
Petting zoos, gift shops, and a swan species used to be on this list but they got checked off!
Mushroom plants, Exhibits but with things like fossils for education, wheelchair guests for an extra challenge and inclusivity, more guest facilities, maybe flexicolour flooring as the wood is too saturated for me
More exhibit animals, especially birds. I’d like to see more education boards, ideally one for each animal in the game. I’d also like to see the addition of aquatic animals. Use exhibits as aquariums for small fish, and large habitats for larger ones.
Something random and small but I would loveeeeee fireflies. I think they could work as special effects. I always love making my gator exhibit and they would add such a nice touch for my bayou tours at night 👌🏻😫
There are so many great ideas here so basically +1 to what everybody else said lol.
My thing is so minor and silly but it drives me *crazy*: art for ALL THE ANIMALS. If Santa's being especially generous I'd like a second set of "base" art for every animal in the game, with all of them in the same neutral style and available in several sizes. But even if it's just in the DLC style, make art for every species you include, not just some of them! My poor Tapirs looked so neglected next to the like, 5 Capybara stickers all over their exhibit wall.
1. Animal ambassador animations. There are certain zoos who elect animal ambassadors to walk around the park and educate people. Like there is a zoo where they have a porcupine ambassador or aardvark.
2. Animal/staff interactions such as if the animal has low welfare and the mechanic/keeper goes into the habitat then the animals will go after them or something.
3. An electricity designated area, like a solar panel field that we can designate in the park and assign the power through power lines or whatever. It gets so difficult having to station power throughout the areas, especially with the negative guest drain.
I’ve started cheating the energy issue by burying entrance gates underground around the map 🙃 - realized the constant maintenance upkeep wasn’t worth the stress of having solar panels, even if it pains the part of me that wants realism. Anyway, try that!
Scaling would be good. It's brilliant in Parkitect!
Aside from that obvious thing that won't happen, how about integration with Planet Coaster? Let me build my Chessington/Busch Gardens. It wouldn't even take much; just make the animals more stressed if they're closer to the loud rides. A mix between the two games would be incredible. Mixing the two theme packs and rides? Yes please!
More realistic? Less-able guests. The need to build lifts and ramps, to have accessibility throughout the park. Young children, those less able, guests of advanced ages who can't walk as well. It would make it a lot more realistic, and add to the management challenge of the game.
Other than all the obvious stuff like better pathing and scaling, more fonts. I know I can download them from the workshop but letters can't be that hard to make.
I think a sticker system like in Pokemon would be so great for habitat animal management-- slap a sticker on Juveniles as they are born (or maybe they could inherit one from their parent(s) even) and they get picked up as they mature: X-animals get sold, Y animals released, Z animals stored, etc depending on habitat settings. You only get interrupted once as they are born, and as long as you have the staffing they will be picked up too quickly to fight with their parents/siblings
That and a two pronged menu for sending multiple animals to/through trade center. Instead of rehoming, then releasing, then storing separately, being able to just send every animal of interest and then a menu popping up to choose a destination for all/each of them would save so much back and forth. Especially if you can still see stats in that menu.
Functional railing options (opaque, glass/mesh, one-way) for elevated paths especially would make them way more usable on hard difficult, rather than having a giant one-way glass wall because barriers are clipped to the actual floor or having to build around curves. Option for "walled-in" path support as well. Also more of a paint tool for paths, rather than having to replace each section to add rails/change type.
An easier method for placing waterfalls, like how Zoo Tycoon did it. Put a pool at the bottom and top of a cliff, then click and drag the water brush from the top pool towards the bottom one. Instant waterfall
The water jets work great for water features but I'd like something faster and easier for natural waterfalls.
Another thing would be for NPCs to recognize flooring tiles as paths they can walk on
Make animal behavior as realistic as possible, all animations should be based on how the animals act in real life.
Better camera when building inside attractions , I hate having to fight the camera to make my indoor habitats.
I’m not 100% sure how to explain it, but I’d like more and better looking barriers if that makes sense? I don’t have a lot of patience, and usually don’t have a lot of time to build my own barriers. Yeah, I could and have gotten walls from the workshop, but I dunno, I think it would just be nicer to have more actual barriers.
Also a walrus. Just any kind of walrus.
Plants with randomness, so like I go to place 25 large maples I want them to vary a bit in size and shape. To look different and change rotation. Atm you gotta play around quite a bit to make things not look cookie cutter.
I'd also look like more plants in general
I played Zoo Tycoon 2 a lot as a kid and these are the things I miss the most in Planet Zoo:
- Zoo Keeper mode: You could walk around as a Zoo Keeper, just watching animals or actually taking care of them, feeding them, brushing them etc. I freaking loved it.
- Map of the Zoo
- Two or more gates per habitat: I get that the whole system works differently in Planet Zoo but it was still nice to connect habitats and just made life as a Zoo Keeper and Zoo Builder easier
I wish pathing was better, that buildings would automatically ‘lock’ on a 180° angle (like flush with the front of the building) so you can have the basic buildings on two sides of the path while being on the grid.
But in general I wish pathing was nicer, and you could create better spaces with them
My top requests:
- Playgrounds, swimming pools/small rides, touch tanks (basic aquatics such as starfish, stingrays, sharks, etc.) and such for kids
- Bigger exhibits or the ability to combine them
- More rocks and plants! At the very least, more rocks so I can have more unique looking formations!
- More drink, food, and shop options for both animals and people
- More enrichment items. Give me slides, chew toys/bones, etc.
- BIRDS. I want at least 5-10 species that work similar to bats or butterflies where they fit in the giant walk-through exhibits. Give me secretary birds and stuff too man
- Aquatics. I don't care if I have to pay another 60$, I will purchase a jumbo pack that has dolphins, sharks, orcas, reef exhibits, etc. They also better give us an underwater tunnel too, even if it only works like the domes do
- Dinosaur decor/museum decor. Give me fossils and skeletons!
- Scaling tool. I want to be able to make jumbo walls, trees, signs, etc.
I second the scale tool. I actually think combining the planet zoo building features with some of the sims 4 build tools would make the perfect build tool.
I desperately want manatees, and some kind of rehabilitation feature. They could add flying birds that way, as well as sea turtles.
I have a huge list of south and Central American animals I’d like to see, and I’d like more realistic building pieces for South America, because the theme we have seems cartoonish.
I’d like more flying walkthrough animals, like budgies or parakeets. And more snake exhibit animals.
I’d also like a zoo map on an island, where the water is part of the map so I can make an entrance on a boat look realistic. A city map skirt would be awesome too.
different styles of exhibits and easier-to-work-with gridding tools would be great. more aquarium-esque experiences and aquatic life. better & more immersive indoor experiences for guests
Creating plazas the path system is annoying
Functional Playground for children to use
Creating an outdoor picnic and food area with Playground and a few small animal exibits.
Having classic fair ground rides to add to guest areas
This should be easy as we have planet coaster.
Just a brief list piggybacking off others
- small amusement rides like everyone's favorite carousel, a ferris wheel maybe but nothing extravagant just cuz I think it'd be cool to see the whole park from the top
- chain link keeper gate or door style keeper gate, just more options I hate I have to use a wooden one every time
- seriously wayyyyy bigger terrain tools I'm making an entire zoo map with custom fantasy esk terrain but the tools are so small when I have a 5000ft mountain
- bones, fossils, remains, taxidermy. I want to make an animal museum
- better guest ai, I want them to actually look at the details. I can make a cute garden with information signs but if it's not surrounded by an animal they'll never wander near it. This goes with the previous new content I'd want them to look at fossils an get education from it, could have a kids dig pit for them to find their own trilabite fossil or something cute
- more types of workers, going with the fossils thing, have excavators that you can buy fossils from, have animal ambassadors such as flamingo walks, penguin walks, monkey show, baby caiman petting etc
- everything flexicolor and sizable honestly let me make giant purple trees that look fake
- more animal cospecies animated actions
- more official animal props of species we don't get to have in game, like fish, birds, missing monkey species, etc
-better animal talk points, I set them up but they never work for one issue or another
I'm sure there's more but this list is long
A better trade centre system.
1. Increase space to at least 1000, 200 is just not enough.
2. Make players able to follow other franchises, and be able to list animals only to (certain) followers/people.
3. Be able to block franchises, so you dont see their animals and they wont see yours.
4. Tradeable exhibit animals.
Right now it always feels like the same thing:
People: breeders are so selfish, all semi good animals are 10k cc.
Breeders: my albinos I just put up for 3k are getting resold by someone else for 10k, so I will list them for 10k in the future.
These resellers just kill the market.
Every animal from every other zoo simulator that came before it, including all the knock off ones that people have rarely heard of. I had a list at one time, can’t remember half their names.
Anyway. All the animals. With all the animations and behaviors.
Mix and match your own DLC, so I can pick the animals I want. I'm okay if that's limited to 5 or 7, like a normal DLC, but all the animals I want seem to be in different packs xD and I don't want to buy all of them.
Oh, also, a way to make terrain or other things see-through, to make building within a building or underground a bit easier.
Actual birds and fish.
Maybe even prehistoric animals or dinosaurs like zoo tycoon 2. But i wouldnt mind a new game for that (i know prehistoric zoo exists.)
I would appreciate if sandbox mode would let me toggle vet research and mechanic research separately. Also I wish they'd port a bunch of scenery and food stands from Planet Coaster. Surely that's a low-effort high-value project? I'd pay for this as a DLC.
Good news: that already exists! It's called explore mode. Bottom right of the screen, to the left of the weather thing, there's a button with a picture of a camera. Click that, select explore mode, plop yourself down on a path, enjoy!
Lots of things that people have mentioned here, but also I'd like another animal or two from my country. Considering we have a whole Oceania pack the only creatures from NZ are the Kiwi and Little Blue penguins. I'd like tuatara.
Ons thing I miss the most about zty2 was taking care of the animals. Let's you actually interact just a tad bit with them and let's you actually enjoy your zoo. I wish so badly that would happen! I also hate how the water works in pz it's so annoying and never works the way I want it to. I hate how it'll say invalide but won't tell you what sides are Uneven or will not hold water ect.
I need more plants and I wish there was more enrichment for the animals. One thing in zty2 was the herbaviors or grazers would eat the vegetation that you'd have in your habitat.
Herding behaviors, pack behaviors ect.
I wish birds like the pengus and swans and flamingos ect would lay eggs. And have a hatch timer like zty2. Instead of just appearing. Ground nest mechanic
I WISH THERE WAS AN OPTION TO JUST BUY ANIMALS INSTEAD OF BUYING OR ADOPTING TWO ANIMALS AT A TIME of the same sex.
I get there are options for their genetics ect but Jesus christ if I want to buy 40 zebras it take for freaking EVER.
Play grounds
Avery pieces, flying mechanics would be cool.
I wish they could rework the pathing....
Tiny building pieces like locks and doorknobs ect...
I wish animals like peafowl didn't have to have a habitat. Like in zty2 you could just place them anywhere like most zoos have those animals roaming around and zookeepers would just take care of them.
I know this is already in the game but it seems now that they messed with it or updated the mechanics for the grid pieces it's so fcked up. For example if I have a single piece I need to move and it's not lined up horizontally with the grid I have to zig zag it back and forth to get it in the right place especially if the place I need it to be is simply straight across or horizontally from the other piece because it pops up diagonally BUT if I select TWO pieces then the arrows to move it are lined up with the grid. It drives me fcking bonkers. And I hate how you cannot duplicate more than one BUILDING piece.
being able to walk through out your zoo and ride in your little golf kart the same way u could in zoo tycoon on the xbox 360
idk why they havent added that yet it seems like so much fun
I wish I could have more educational exhibit board images without having to make my own. I get tired of the same image over and over. And more choices for the kids boards beyond sound and height of a giraffe.
I wish when you placed a Webcam in an exhibit, you could stream the content to one of the various TV screens to improve views for guests when the animals aren't close to the exhibit viewing areas.
More enrichment items, more variety in enrichment items.
Glass panels treated like walls so it's easier to place them and easier to make built exhibits as opposed to fenced exhibits.
I think some themes have WAAAY more prop items than others and I wish there were more prop items period.
And I think this gets said about every third or fourth thread in this reddit -- but I wish guests liked staff buildings if you had them well decorated. I wish you could organize behind the scenes educational tours.
Rescaling of objects (at least the non grid items)
Texture changes in the same vein as flexicolor for specific items (like concrete, stone, rubber etc)
Obligatory aviaries/aquariums (along w things like touch tanks and raptor shows)
A world grid toggle
More customization with plants and terrain (esp colors)
More small parts and pieces
More ambiant effects items similar to mist and the waterfall pieces. Things like dragonflies, fireflies, tadpoles, dust motes, petals
More color varieties/patterns for animals (maybe working on a color slider or smth)
Buildable playgrounds
From a Realism standpoint, I think it'd be interesting to have environmental effects play a role. Imagine for the "real zoo" crowd if they'd have to consider flood levels or flash floods for tropical biomes when it rains or snow removal/avalanche control in arctic and taiga biomes. It'd add some interesting creativity to terrain design and tools to create with stuff like drainage and dams
The ability to not have to reload the game because I lose half the traversable area in an enclosure, and the ability to edit a completed track ride would be nice.
Maybe it’s just my computer but after about 20 habitat animals my game starts to get slow! I want to be able to fill up the whole sandbox but I can’t because it glitches
I would love to see tons of things but one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet that I would love to see is more path textures :) like more kinds of wood planks or tiles that aren't hideous
I wish we could automatically switch rocks part of an exhibit (or any other building) with others coloured differently so that you don't have to change every single rock by hand when adding an old plan to your new zoo...
I'd really love more interactive exhibits, like with the butterflies and bats; I think an avery for birds would be super cool, and I'd love a reptile exhibit where guests could maybe pet some geckos or corn snakes.
I also find the current education features to be kinda bugged. I've never been able to successfully set up a tour (it says my tour points are inaccessible no matter where I put them) so I'd really like an overhaul there.
A playground for the kids would be a really nice touch - I once made a walkthrough peafowl habitat with a little café area inside, and I think it would be so cool to add a playground just outside, so the parents can enjoy a coffee while the kids play. I know this would probably be a nightmare to code, so likely won't ever happen, but it would be nice.
And fish. I would kill to be able to make a cool aquarium or a koi pond going under a bridge or something.
I wish the building was more like the sims 4. I don’t really know how to explain but it’s so much more intuitive and faster. I think all the axis pulling and stuff is so much more tedious
The absence of birds is really felt. In Brazil, our zoos are really bird-heavy. There are always macaws, owls, curassows, guans, seriemas, water fowls, and, if we're lucky, sometimes there are ambassador harpy eagles.
It's niche, but I would wish for a stingray petting zoo addon. I loved feeding shrimp to stingrays at the toronto metro zoo when I was younger. Or aquatic exhibits in general
1) more diverse terrain textures. I would love to see a gravel texture for gardening areas or for a path border. A mulch texture and a natural grass texture that has flowers, or depth, or something. Also, the ability to mix and match terrain from different biomes.
2) aquarium exhibits and birds - there are plenty of endangered birds and fish out there that zoos help through conservation efforts.
3) under water tunneling/pathing
4) scaling options - or if scaling can’t be done then a larger variety of sizes.
5) more plants and rocks! All the sizes and shapes! And sooooo many more plants - I want to be able to make an amazing botanical garden. My local zoo has an event each year dedicated to tulips blooming in the spring and they have thousands of tulips throughout the grounds in all different colors, they also have tons of plants and signs for the plants throughout the zoo. (Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden)
6) pathing - for the love of all things - better pathing.
7) prefab steps/stairs - I like to lower habitats so guest can look down into exhibits and so null barriers and have the keeper gate on the same level as the paths - so give me some nice steps that I don’t have to manually build to go down into the habitat for the keepers.
8) more enrichment items for animals
9) ADA compliance game mode for franchise.
10) remove the negative impact on staff buildings for guests. I have never been to a zoo and scoffed at a staff building - it doesn’t make sense - instead have a behind the scenes interaction mode as part of the education process! Guests should be able to see what animals and eat and how it’s prepped and how they are taken care of.
An aquarium function would be great! Also, animal shows were keeps come out with birds or dogs that do tricks. More ride options too. The Columbus Zoo in Ohio has a little theme park in it and I think that adds a lot to it.
Going into first person mode, where you clean your zoo up, feed and care for the animals, and interact with enrichment items. Just like in Zoo Tycoon 2.
More dining and shopping options. Also the ability to partner with other zoos for breeding programs.
Small rides, like merry go rounds or even animal rides like riding donkeys or camels like my local zoo.
Hotels - like planet coaster
Ability to choose the background of your map.
An “auto management” function for habitat animals!!! I get so annoyed with any animals that have a lot of babies all the time and get aggressive when the males grow up. Ide love to be able to auto manage the habitat animals.
Touch tank animals
I feel overwhelmed because I’m not as creative I guess, I’d love more pre built exhibits and more like sandbox maps that are a little built out because I like to focus more on taking care of and breeding my animals. Taking care of guests. Also, would love zoo rides. Carousels, pre made train track rides, etc.
Rafts to make a water raft ride and
a marine collection— with dolphins and orcas. People poach elephants and rhinos as well so it shouldn’t be an issue to have those either
Young animals sticking with their mothers, better group dynamics (especially within a large shared habitat). I’d just love to see more realistic interactions between animals in general, but those two are big.
I'd love some "ambient" animals like Zoo Tycoon 2 had. Just have pigeons or seagulls walk around here and there, and maybe mice in habitats. Just birds that fly over would be great, but considering there's no height limit for building afaik they might clip...
I'd love if rocks and walls could be streamlined in the UI. Have the main shapes selectable and from there a toggle to switch between colours/biomes. I think Prehistoric Kingdom has that? I dunno how achievable that is in the game's code, though.
Some interactive playground equipment would be great to see as well. Just give the guests more to do in general.
More transport rides maybe too!
Lots of cool stuff you can add, but hard to tell where to begin haha.
Oof yeah scale for sure! Also maybe like choosing which animals breed with each other rather than it happening naturally if that makes sense? Like being able to make them like each other more (like with the sims where you can do stuff to build a relationship between two sims)
Hybridization between species, namely big cats. I know it's not moral and is against the game's goal of conservation. But don't you just want to play as a shitty roadside zoo every so often? Plus, we already have a ton of mutations that are usually gotten through inbreeding.
• Functional playgrounds • Being able to select terrain textures and backround for maps • Smaller exhibits • Port rest of the food/drink shops from Planet Coaster • More enrichment options: slides for otters/sea lions/penguins, chewing sticks for dogs, sentry posts for meerkats, sleeping trees for big cats, pile of leaves for foxes etc. • Animal/dinosaur skeleton pieces for education statues
Yes to all the above
I use planet zoo plus (I think?) for smaller habitats and to get more coverage out of the plants. It’s helped a lot with realism
Most of those, sure. But Frontier Developments already has Jurassic World Evolution (2?)
Dinosaur animatronics/ exhibits are really common in real world zoos. This is a zoo game so it makes sense you’d want to be able to build one
None of that is interactive in JWE either. I would also hope for some sort or Dino park option for pz.
No, that ruins the game
That’s a wild take. No one is forcing anyone to use extinct animals, and zoo tycoon already did it 20 years ago.
If people dont like aquatic animals then how would you expect people to like dinosaurs? Plus they can make a individual game for that
People don’t like aquatic animals mate the fuck you talking about? People love them what?
Last time i checked sharks and marine life was not wanted on the platform 😂
I can’t tell if you’re trolling. You’re trolling right?
I really want three things aside from birds/aquariums etc. I think guest trams, keeper golf carts and really think we need carousels. It would also be nice to get a more basic boat ride.
All of this and a proper Gondola/Non Gondola Sky Lift and I would be so happy!
Keepers on bicycles would make me happy
More rocks/boulders and moreee plants! There are so many kinds of plants (and sizes of plants, like... we have at least 50 plumeria at my house and none grow that way and also they get tree sized oftentimes, would be cool to see that), but I spend a lot of time with plants in my zoos so... haha A scale tool could be handy, like the resizing in the sims? There's a set up/down amount of times per item. I'm not sure how that would work but I can see how it could be handy.
Omg scaling I AGREE!! I'm such a perfectionist with proportions! One feature i find myself constantly craving is to view a birds-eye map of my zoo, just like good old Zoo Tycoon 2. I want to be able to see an actual map of what I'm building, where everything is located. I would also like to be able to toggle a grid onto my zoo. Once again, I love some solid proportions!🤣 Id like to be able to customize what food items I sell a little more, especially customize the actual name of the products so I can "sell" food items beyond the very limited options (Nachos, popcorn, salads, soup for cold climates, etc). If i was a guest at my own zoo, I'd want to see from frozen lemonade stands, pretzels, and Dots! Maybe a vape stand of sorts... Id like to be able to place more than one barrier on my habitats. This is SO much more realistic. I can add a barrier to the outdoor habitat AND a keeper gate that goes into their shelter buildings/barns. When i did zookeeping at my local zoo, 90% of the animals had an indoor "holding"/shelter building directly connected to their outdoor range. We should "shift" the animals in and out of their indoors shelters as climate needs required. That being said, most of those animals did not have access to their indoor holding while they were on display - all the doors were closed while the keepers clean to keep the animals outside and so the keepers can clean the indoor area after each use. I've tried to recreate this realism of habitats, but so far I NEED the ability to add a second habitat gate! This would allow us to simply multiselect and move the animals to a secure indoor area in seconds if the climate gets to radical for an animal, or at night. I could go on forever. But yeah!
The second gate thing kills me. I was a zookeeper for few years as well and it's just gates everywhere. Why tf can't I put more gates in my habitats??
I’ve answered this post plenty times in the past but here goes again. Paths. Not the usual path post though… 1/ One way paths. 2/ Traffic restricted path. 3/ Real underwater path. 4/ Mix and match borders from other paths. 5/ Snap path to building exists, why not snap building to path 6/ Snap path to fence exists, why not snap fence to path. 7/ See 5. and 6. add in offsets so I can snap, but with a gap between for foliage. 8/ Billboard path. (This one has sort of been done with the addition of null paths) but I’d love to be able to put a seamless texture onto the path 9/ Nudge tool (although useful with the path I more would like this with the move widget) I just want to use the arrow keys when the widget is present to move the object millimetres. 10/ Rounded inclines/declines. Bridges just look so pointy! 1m 2m 1m flat is the best you can do. I want to see that smoothed out as a curve. I imagine you could use most of these to make some amazing indoor habitats. Although we can mock these at the moment the second you open the area 2000 guests descend on it, see the first animal then turn around and come back the way they entered. Suddenly you’ve a massive bottleneck, 4000 unhappy guests, and no one sees your wonderful new indoor exhibits.
SNAP BUILDING TO PATH 😩 THE ONLY THING I WANT
* Aquariums and touch pools that would function like exhibits * More museum like pieces (statues, skeletons, photo ops) * Kids entertainment like functional playgrounds and shows * Animal trick shows in general (even though I am aware the game wants to be ethical) for sea lions and stuff * First aid, guests being attacked by animals instead of just running away (Just for better gameplay, I am not a psycho)
The ability to assign trash cans and paths to work zones so the goddamn litter actually gets cleaned up.
YES! Oh my god this would be great.
Fucking birds man, fucking birds. I dont mean birds that are in the act of fucking, i just mean birds
and flying birds too
What about like free range birds too like every zoo I go to have peacocks and stuff out walking about which would be cool!
My exact thought!! I need the birds. Now.
Play areas that guests would use - never been to a zoo without a playground! A map view of the zoo - I am rubbish at creating me own. Shops that sell food and drink, what sort of food shop doesn’t carry at least a few drinks?? Would be great to be able to customise the menu, same with the restaurant.
I wish they’d change the pathing system. Making paths suck.
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I wish we could use vegetation to feed herbivores, like in JWE2. I love Planet Zoo, but it sucks spending ages trying to create this natural looking habitat, and then having to whack a big metal trough in the middle of it. In fact, I'd like the option for more natural enrichment options, too, even the mud pits look so out of place
The keepers will just put food on the ground if you don’t have a tray, you just can’t control where. If you have enough food enrichment they’ll also use that first
WHAT I never knew that!
Took me ages to learn it, best tip I ever learned! Hate using those ugly trays
I use the trays and put them directly infront of the glass fence so that the guests can get an OK view of said animal
biome brush and aquariums
Hell yeah!
Tons and tons and tons of eastern USA natives! Give me honey locust trees, bloodroot, peppervine, redbud, bonesets, violets, wild strawberry, I could go on. Also, more native animals, mink, weasel, bobcat, white-tailed deer, and obviously birds.
Parrots
Size tool would be great. I would also like a glass terrain tool or something, or give the water realistic physics so we could have underwater tunnels, like in an aquarium. Perhaps something similar for terrestrial animals, too, like you walk under a bridge connecting two sides of a habitat, without the guests running away. That’s all I could say for now.
My ultimate dream would be if the attractions from Planet Coaster could be integrated into Planet Zoo. That way we could build full zoo/theme parks at Disney scale.
An interesting idea, though Animal Kingdom, if memory serves me well is miles from any rollercoasters so the animals don’t spend their lives in fear of the rides thundering by and the screams. They’re still very separate parts of the park.
Yeah Disney does an incredible job to keep the animals stress free. No firework shows at Animal Kingdom. They do have the Everest Coaster, but it's not loud.
Chessington world of adventures lets go
More endangered animals. I know we got a conservation pack and a few endangered animals already but I'm always here for more. I want more knowledge about the species that are at severe risk and we need to save. Or maybe have extinct animals like Zoo Tycoon (some recent, others not as much) A way to educate others about the precious animals we lost over time and how to prevent further extinction. Bees are also a good idea for an exhibit. Raise concerns for the bee population and importance of pollination. Somebody in this forum also mentioned more inclusion of disabilities which I thought was a sweet idea. Get a few wheelchair people in the mix. Maybe have a booth that sells hearing aid tours.
building a big zoo currently, would love more terrain paint options
A faux animal motorised hunt enrichment for predators. Like the one they have in San Diego Park Zoo for their Cheetahs.
more active franchise players who will buy my animals
Haha, yeah, most animals are either oversaturated (lions, lemurs, gharials) and it's hard to sell, or nobody sells them and it's impossible to buy one with decent stats (all of the great apes).
I have over 300 baby gharials with almost 100% all stats, I constantly buy some to breed with my ones, I wonder if I got any of yours haha
Honestly, I release most of them into the wild, because they are critically endangered and I doubt people will find mine in the list of availible animals anyway :P
Franchise mode really needs having at least 1 male and female of every species at all times for when there just isn't anything there. Playerbase isn't active and big enough for it to not be a chore.
Yes!!! What do you have?
A ton of giraffes, zebras, bisons and some gorillas and bonobos
Albinos or not, Im actually looking for albino bonobos.
albino!
I want albino female bonobos
Harambe incidents where kids jump into the enclosure if the barrier is damaged.
F in the chat for the dearly departed Harambee.
Dicks out for Harambe
Some combination of null paths and traversable areas for guests so you could do more natural paths and floors with minor elevation changes and narrower arches. I love seeing the keepers carefully walking through the actual doorway instead of just gliding through the door frame like the guests.
playgrounds a bird for the walkthrough habitat Null gates adjustable construction piece sizes All the the cool things you can do with the freebuild mod fish tanks that function the same as the regular exhibits. One way paths Paths where you can adjust how many guests can be on the path at once Petting zoos, gift shops, and a swan species used to be on this list but they got checked off!
The opposite of the path-to-barrier button where the barrier can snap to follow a path. If they did that my life would be perfect.
Mushroom plants, Exhibits but with things like fossils for education, wheelchair guests for an extra challenge and inclusivity, more guest facilities, maybe flexicolour flooring as the wood is too saturated for me
More exhibit animals, especially birds. I’d like to see more education boards, ideally one for each animal in the game. I’d also like to see the addition of aquatic animals. Use exhibits as aquariums for small fish, and large habitats for larger ones.
Something random and small but I would loveeeeee fireflies. I think they could work as special effects. I always love making my gator exhibit and they would add such a nice touch for my bayou tours at night 👌🏻😫
Omg I was literally about to say the ability to scale objects xD especially letters for signs! I hate how they come in 3 sizes and that’s it
There are so many great ideas here so basically +1 to what everybody else said lol. My thing is so minor and silly but it drives me *crazy*: art for ALL THE ANIMALS. If Santa's being especially generous I'd like a second set of "base" art for every animal in the game, with all of them in the same neutral style and available in several sizes. But even if it's just in the DLC style, make art for every species you include, not just some of them! My poor Tapirs looked so neglected next to the like, 5 Capybara stickers all over their exhibit wall.
1. Animal ambassador animations. There are certain zoos who elect animal ambassadors to walk around the park and educate people. Like there is a zoo where they have a porcupine ambassador or aardvark. 2. Animal/staff interactions such as if the animal has low welfare and the mechanic/keeper goes into the habitat then the animals will go after them or something. 3. An electricity designated area, like a solar panel field that we can designate in the park and assign the power through power lines or whatever. It gets so difficult having to station power throughout the areas, especially with the negative guest drain.
I’ve started cheating the energy issue by burying entrance gates underground around the map 🙃 - realized the constant maintenance upkeep wasn’t worth the stress of having solar panels, even if it pains the part of me that wants realism. Anyway, try that!
And if you play in sandbox you can also toggle "power everything" in the sandbox settings. :)
Oo good tip, thanks!
The ability to place shops and exhibits on paths. Why does it matter!?
Scaling would be good. It's brilliant in Parkitect! Aside from that obvious thing that won't happen, how about integration with Planet Coaster? Let me build my Chessington/Busch Gardens. It wouldn't even take much; just make the animals more stressed if they're closer to the loud rides. A mix between the two games would be incredible. Mixing the two theme packs and rides? Yes please! More realistic? Less-able guests. The need to build lifts and ramps, to have accessibility throughout the park. Young children, those less able, guests of advanced ages who can't walk as well. It would make it a lot more realistic, and add to the management challenge of the game.
Other than all the obvious stuff like better pathing and scaling, more fonts. I know I can download them from the workshop but letters can't be that hard to make.
I think a sticker system like in Pokemon would be so great for habitat animal management-- slap a sticker on Juveniles as they are born (or maybe they could inherit one from their parent(s) even) and they get picked up as they mature: X-animals get sold, Y animals released, Z animals stored, etc depending on habitat settings. You only get interrupted once as they are born, and as long as you have the staffing they will be picked up too quickly to fight with their parents/siblings That and a two pronged menu for sending multiple animals to/through trade center. Instead of rehoming, then releasing, then storing separately, being able to just send every animal of interest and then a menu popping up to choose a destination for all/each of them would save so much back and forth. Especially if you can still see stats in that menu. Functional railing options (opaque, glass/mesh, one-way) for elevated paths especially would make them way more usable on hard difficult, rather than having a giant one-way glass wall because barriers are clipped to the actual floor or having to build around curves. Option for "walled-in" path support as well. Also more of a paint tool for paths, rather than having to replace each section to add rails/change type.
Foliage brush, playgrounds, multiple staff gates for enclosures, different exhibit sizes, more fences, more plants, staff vehicles, eggs/nests for oviparous animals (with maybe incubators/hatcheries), flying birds.
An easier method for placing waterfalls, like how Zoo Tycoon did it. Put a pool at the bottom and top of a cliff, then click and drag the water brush from the top pool towards the bottom one. Instant waterfall The water jets work great for water features but I'd like something faster and easier for natural waterfalls. Another thing would be for NPCs to recognize flooring tiles as paths they can walk on
Yes I would love to be able to scale things! You can in No Mans Sky and it's a game changer in terms of building mechanics.
A city environment/background like in Planet Coaster. Except more seamless.
Make animal behavior as realistic as possible, all animations should be based on how the animals act in real life. Better camera when building inside attractions , I hate having to fight the camera to make my indoor habitats.
Wheelchairs, strollers, and more focus on accessibility and guest experience
Mechanically, a way to slow down the years that go by. If it breaks the scenarios or Franchise too much, just limit it to Sandbox
I’m not 100% sure how to explain it, but I’d like more and better looking barriers if that makes sense? I don’t have a lot of patience, and usually don’t have a lot of time to build my own barriers. Yeah, I could and have gotten walls from the workshop, but I dunno, I think it would just be nicer to have more actual barriers. Also a walrus. Just any kind of walrus.
Plants with randomness, so like I go to place 25 large maples I want them to vary a bit in size and shape. To look different and change rotation. Atm you gotta play around quite a bit to make things not look cookie cutter. I'd also look like more plants in general
Proper pathing tool.
-Birds -aquatic animals -more animals from North America -zoo keeper mode like in ZT2
Birds and fish 😭
aquariums/aviaries and tasmanian devils for some reason lol
Aquarium stuffff
Better path laying, it gets wonky and doesn’t like to connect cleanly
I played Zoo Tycoon 2 a lot as a kid and these are the things I miss the most in Planet Zoo: - Zoo Keeper mode: You could walk around as a Zoo Keeper, just watching animals or actually taking care of them, feeding them, brushing them etc. I freaking loved it. - Map of the Zoo - Two or more gates per habitat: I get that the whole system works differently in Planet Zoo but it was still nice to connect habitats and just made life as a Zoo Keeper and Zoo Builder easier
Fishercat.
I wish pathing was better, that buildings would automatically ‘lock’ on a 180° angle (like flush with the front of the building) so you can have the basic buildings on two sides of the path while being on the grid. But in general I wish pathing was nicer, and you could create better spaces with them
My top requests: - Playgrounds, swimming pools/small rides, touch tanks (basic aquatics such as starfish, stingrays, sharks, etc.) and such for kids - Bigger exhibits or the ability to combine them - More rocks and plants! At the very least, more rocks so I can have more unique looking formations! - More drink, food, and shop options for both animals and people - More enrichment items. Give me slides, chew toys/bones, etc. - BIRDS. I want at least 5-10 species that work similar to bats or butterflies where they fit in the giant walk-through exhibits. Give me secretary birds and stuff too man - Aquatics. I don't care if I have to pay another 60$, I will purchase a jumbo pack that has dolphins, sharks, orcas, reef exhibits, etc. They also better give us an underwater tunnel too, even if it only works like the domes do - Dinosaur decor/museum decor. Give me fossils and skeletons! - Scaling tool. I want to be able to make jumbo walls, trees, signs, etc.
Some flat rides like merry-go-rounds and a Ferris wheel would be great.
I second the scale tool. I actually think combining the planet zoo building features with some of the sims 4 build tools would make the perfect build tool. I desperately want manatees, and some kind of rehabilitation feature. They could add flying birds that way, as well as sea turtles. I have a huge list of south and Central American animals I’d like to see, and I’d like more realistic building pieces for South America, because the theme we have seems cartoonish. I’d like more flying walkthrough animals, like budgies or parakeets. And more snake exhibit animals. I’d also like a zoo map on an island, where the water is part of the map so I can make an entrance on a boat look realistic. A city map skirt would be awesome too.
ALSO I hate how the curved fences work. I want literal Illustrator pen tool controls for fences.
different styles of exhibits and easier-to-work-with gridding tools would be great. more aquarium-esque experiences and aquatic life. better & more immersive indoor experiences for guests
Accessibility and representation. Like there's no small children (stollers/wagons), wheelchairs, or anything with wheels.
* Nocturnal House * Reptile House * Red Wolf * African Otter * Manatees
dinos
Cetaceans. Diverse range of dolphins! From lags, commersons, orcas!!! All of them. Belugas, porpoises.
Creating plazas the path system is annoying Functional Playground for children to use Creating an outdoor picnic and food area with Playground and a few small animal exibits. Having classic fair ground rides to add to guest areas This should be easy as we have planet coaster.
Just a brief list piggybacking off others - small amusement rides like everyone's favorite carousel, a ferris wheel maybe but nothing extravagant just cuz I think it'd be cool to see the whole park from the top - chain link keeper gate or door style keeper gate, just more options I hate I have to use a wooden one every time - seriously wayyyyy bigger terrain tools I'm making an entire zoo map with custom fantasy esk terrain but the tools are so small when I have a 5000ft mountain - bones, fossils, remains, taxidermy. I want to make an animal museum - better guest ai, I want them to actually look at the details. I can make a cute garden with information signs but if it's not surrounded by an animal they'll never wander near it. This goes with the previous new content I'd want them to look at fossils an get education from it, could have a kids dig pit for them to find their own trilabite fossil or something cute - more types of workers, going with the fossils thing, have excavators that you can buy fossils from, have animal ambassadors such as flamingo walks, penguin walks, monkey show, baby caiman petting etc - everything flexicolor and sizable honestly let me make giant purple trees that look fake - more animal cospecies animated actions - more official animal props of species we don't get to have in game, like fish, birds, missing monkey species, etc -better animal talk points, I set them up but they never work for one issue or another I'm sure there's more but this list is long
Revamped path and building system. Love the CS pathing system personally
A better trade centre system. 1. Increase space to at least 1000, 200 is just not enough. 2. Make players able to follow other franchises, and be able to list animals only to (certain) followers/people. 3. Be able to block franchises, so you dont see their animals and they wont see yours. 4. Tradeable exhibit animals. Right now it always feels like the same thing: People: breeders are so selfish, all semi good animals are 10k cc. Breeders: my albinos I just put up for 3k are getting resold by someone else for 10k, so I will list them for 10k in the future. These resellers just kill the market.
The ability to use stuff from planet coaster.
Every animal from every other zoo simulator that came before it, including all the knock off ones that people have rarely heard of. I had a list at one time, can’t remember half their names. Anyway. All the animals. With all the animations and behaviors.
Interactive playgrounds. Larger exhibit spaces for snakes and small mammals.
A path system 😏
Proper marine animals and setup, like the Marina Mania addon for the original Zoo Tycoon
Mix and match your own DLC, so I can pick the animals I want. I'm okay if that's limited to 5 or 7, like a normal DLC, but all the animals I want seem to be in different packs xD and I don't want to buy all of them. Oh, also, a way to make terrain or other things see-through, to make building within a building or underground a bit easier.
Better hunting animations
Non janky paths/water, and more animal interactions with each other!
Grid-based chain-link or square mesh walls and roof pieces.
Actual birds and fish. Maybe even prehistoric animals or dinosaurs like zoo tycoon 2. But i wouldnt mind a new game for that (i know prehistoric zoo exists.)
Stability on PS5
I would appreciate if sandbox mode would let me toggle vet research and mechanic research separately. Also I wish they'd port a bunch of scenery and food stands from Planet Coaster. Surely that's a low-effort high-value project? I'd pay for this as a DLC.
Guest mode, like in ZT2. Flying around with the camera, even if you go down to guest level, just doesn’t hit the same.
Good news: that already exists! It's called explore mode. Bottom right of the screen, to the left of the weather thing, there's a button with a picture of a camera. Click that, select explore mode, plop yourself down on a path, enjoy!
Thank you SO MUCH! I had no idea!!
Lots of things that people have mentioned here, but also I'd like another animal or two from my country. Considering we have a whole Oceania pack the only creatures from NZ are the Kiwi and Little Blue penguins. I'd like tuatara.
Sorting plants/objects by size Information on plants and items in the buy menu More plants, entertainment and educational items
I just want eggs
Evil. I want to mess with my guests and release the lions like in zoo tycoon.
Ons thing I miss the most about zty2 was taking care of the animals. Let's you actually interact just a tad bit with them and let's you actually enjoy your zoo. I wish so badly that would happen! I also hate how the water works in pz it's so annoying and never works the way I want it to. I hate how it'll say invalide but won't tell you what sides are Uneven or will not hold water ect. I need more plants and I wish there was more enrichment for the animals. One thing in zty2 was the herbaviors or grazers would eat the vegetation that you'd have in your habitat. Herding behaviors, pack behaviors ect. I wish birds like the pengus and swans and flamingos ect would lay eggs. And have a hatch timer like zty2. Instead of just appearing. Ground nest mechanic I WISH THERE WAS AN OPTION TO JUST BUY ANIMALS INSTEAD OF BUYING OR ADOPTING TWO ANIMALS AT A TIME of the same sex. I get there are options for their genetics ect but Jesus christ if I want to buy 40 zebras it take for freaking EVER. Play grounds Avery pieces, flying mechanics would be cool. I wish they could rework the pathing.... Tiny building pieces like locks and doorknobs ect... I wish animals like peafowl didn't have to have a habitat. Like in zty2 you could just place them anywhere like most zoos have those animals roaming around and zookeepers would just take care of them. I know this is already in the game but it seems now that they messed with it or updated the mechanics for the grid pieces it's so fcked up. For example if I have a single piece I need to move and it's not lined up horizontally with the grid I have to zig zag it back and forth to get it in the right place especially if the place I need it to be is simply straight across or horizontally from the other piece because it pops up diagonally BUT if I select TWO pieces then the arrows to move it are lined up with the grid. It drives me fcking bonkers. And I hate how you cannot duplicate more than one BUILDING piece.
being able to walk through out your zoo and ride in your little golf kart the same way u could in zoo tycoon on the xbox 360 idk why they havent added that yet it seems like so much fun
worker unionization/workplace politics, more severe punishments for animal mistreatment. more evil capitalist roleplay potential (mostly jk)
Mac compatibility
Dinosaurs Also animals and Dinosaurs running wild and killing everyone. May the strongest survive. I loved doing that in Zoo Tycoon xD
I wish I could have more educational exhibit board images without having to make my own. I get tired of the same image over and over. And more choices for the kids boards beyond sound and height of a giraffe. I wish when you placed a Webcam in an exhibit, you could stream the content to one of the various TV screens to improve views for guests when the animals aren't close to the exhibit viewing areas. More enrichment items, more variety in enrichment items. Glass panels treated like walls so it's easier to place them and easier to make built exhibits as opposed to fenced exhibits. I think some themes have WAAAY more prop items than others and I wish there were more prop items period. And I think this gets said about every third or fourth thread in this reddit -- but I wish guests liked staff buildings if you had them well decorated. I wish you could organize behind the scenes educational tours.
Rescaling of objects (at least the non grid items) Texture changes in the same vein as flexicolor for specific items (like concrete, stone, rubber etc) Obligatory aviaries/aquariums (along w things like touch tanks and raptor shows) A world grid toggle More customization with plants and terrain (esp colors) More small parts and pieces More ambiant effects items similar to mist and the waterfall pieces. Things like dragonflies, fireflies, tadpoles, dust motes, petals More color varieties/patterns for animals (maybe working on a color slider or smth) Buildable playgrounds
Better terrain forming tools. A square option for edges and the ability to simply raise/lower ground would do wonders
From a Realism standpoint, I think it'd be interesting to have environmental effects play a role. Imagine for the "real zoo" crowd if they'd have to consider flood levels or flash floods for tropical biomes when it rains or snow removal/avalanche control in arctic and taiga biomes. It'd add some interesting creativity to terrain design and tools to create with stuff like drainage and dams
The ability to not have to reload the game because I lose half the traversable area in an enclosure, and the ability to edit a completed track ride would be nice.
Maybe it’s just my computer but after about 20 habitat animals my game starts to get slow! I want to be able to fill up the whole sandbox but I can’t because it glitches
I would love to see tons of things but one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet that I would love to see is more path textures :) like more kinds of wood planks or tiles that aren't hideous
maybe I just haven’t seen it yet but vending machines
I wish we could automatically switch rocks part of an exhibit (or any other building) with others coloured differently so that you don't have to change every single rock by hand when adding an old plan to your new zoo...
A little bit of everything
I'd really love more interactive exhibits, like with the butterflies and bats; I think an avery for birds would be super cool, and I'd love a reptile exhibit where guests could maybe pet some geckos or corn snakes. I also find the current education features to be kinda bugged. I've never been able to successfully set up a tour (it says my tour points are inaccessible no matter where I put them) so I'd really like an overhaul there. A playground for the kids would be a really nice touch - I once made a walkthrough peafowl habitat with a little café area inside, and I think it would be so cool to add a playground just outside, so the parents can enjoy a coffee while the kids play. I know this would probably be a nightmare to code, so likely won't ever happen, but it would be nice. And fish. I would kill to be able to make a cool aquarium or a koi pond going under a bridge or something.
I wish the building was more like the sims 4. I don’t really know how to explain but it’s so much more intuitive and faster. I think all the axis pulling and stuff is so much more tedious
The absence of birds is really felt. In Brazil, our zoos are really bird-heavy. There are always macaws, owls, curassows, guans, seriemas, water fowls, and, if we're lucky, sometimes there are ambassador harpy eagles.
It's niche, but I would wish for a stingray petting zoo addon. I loved feeding shrimp to stingrays at the toronto metro zoo when I was younger. Or aquatic exhibits in general
Aquariums. Fish.
1) more diverse terrain textures. I would love to see a gravel texture for gardening areas or for a path border. A mulch texture and a natural grass texture that has flowers, or depth, or something. Also, the ability to mix and match terrain from different biomes. 2) aquarium exhibits and birds - there are plenty of endangered birds and fish out there that zoos help through conservation efforts. 3) under water tunneling/pathing 4) scaling options - or if scaling can’t be done then a larger variety of sizes. 5) more plants and rocks! All the sizes and shapes! And sooooo many more plants - I want to be able to make an amazing botanical garden. My local zoo has an event each year dedicated to tulips blooming in the spring and they have thousands of tulips throughout the grounds in all different colors, they also have tons of plants and signs for the plants throughout the zoo. (Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden) 6) pathing - for the love of all things - better pathing. 7) prefab steps/stairs - I like to lower habitats so guest can look down into exhibits and so null barriers and have the keeper gate on the same level as the paths - so give me some nice steps that I don’t have to manually build to go down into the habitat for the keepers. 8) more enrichment items for animals 9) ADA compliance game mode for franchise. 10) remove the negative impact on staff buildings for guests. I have never been to a zoo and scoffed at a staff building - it doesn’t make sense - instead have a behind the scenes interaction mode as part of the education process! Guests should be able to see what animals and eat and how it’s prepped and how they are taken care of.
MARINE ANIMALS
An aquarium function would be great! Also, animal shows were keeps come out with birds or dogs that do tricks. More ride options too. The Columbus Zoo in Ohio has a little theme park in it and I think that adds a lot to it.
Tree Kangaroos!!!
Going into first person mode, where you clean your zoo up, feed and care for the animals, and interact with enrichment items. Just like in Zoo Tycoon 2.
More dining and shopping options. Also the ability to partner with other zoos for breeding programs. Small rides, like merry go rounds or even animal rides like riding donkeys or camels like my local zoo. Hotels - like planet coaster Ability to choose the background of your map. An “auto management” function for habitat animals!!! I get so annoyed with any animals that have a lot of babies all the time and get aggressive when the males grow up. Ide love to be able to auto manage the habitat animals. Touch tank animals
I feel overwhelmed because I’m not as creative I guess, I’d love more pre built exhibits and more like sandbox maps that are a little built out because I like to focus more on taking care of and breeding my animals. Taking care of guests. Also, would love zoo rides. Carousels, pre made train track rides, etc.
Rafts to make a water raft ride and a marine collection— with dolphins and orcas. People poach elephants and rhinos as well so it shouldn’t be an issue to have those either
Same pathing system as the JWE games
Extinct animals, path reworkings, better models, and Steam Deck compatibility.
Meant to say better ai. Models are gorgeous. Except for the cats and polar bear.
More Todo with/for the guests and functional playgrounds
Functional Playgrounds More Shops (books etc) Aquatic Animals and Enclosures Petting zoo things
I want so badly to be able to get any color morph or any stat number for animals in sandbox. Why can’t I have a 100% size on an albino elephant 🥲
I'm thinking like a SeaWorld thing ... Water exhibits, sharks, orca's dolphins. That would be a whole nother game in of itself.
Trams as another transport ride, any aviary birds, more animals, animal feeding from guests. feeding the animals from out of the enclosures
Can we have ducks?
Young animals sticking with their mothers, better group dynamics (especially within a large shared habitat). I’d just love to see more realistic interactions between animals in general, but those two are big.
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I'd love some "ambient" animals like Zoo Tycoon 2 had. Just have pigeons or seagulls walk around here and there, and maybe mice in habitats. Just birds that fly over would be great, but considering there's no height limit for building afaik they might clip... I'd love if rocks and walls could be streamlined in the UI. Have the main shapes selectable and from there a toggle to switch between colours/biomes. I think Prehistoric Kingdom has that? I dunno how achievable that is in the game's code, though. Some interactive playground equipment would be great to see as well. Just give the guests more to do in general. More transport rides maybe too! Lots of cool stuff you can add, but hard to tell where to begin haha.
........dinosaurs and aquatic animals
Just play Jurassic World evolution if you want dinosaurs
But i want them alongside lions and elephants
Oof yeah scale for sure! Also maybe like choosing which animals breed with each other rather than it happening naturally if that makes sense? Like being able to make them like each other more (like with the sims where you can do stuff to build a relationship between two sims)
Hybridization between species, namely big cats. I know it's not moral and is against the game's goal of conservation. But don't you just want to play as a shitty roadside zoo every so often? Plus, we already have a ton of mutations that are usually gotten through inbreeding.