The Official Zoo Tycoon Forum

I didnt think of a name for this but i know its a good idea. It will be like combining ZT1 with ZT2. Remember when you had to guess what to put in an exhibit? You can have that, except without guessing. For example, when you made a benegal tiger exhibit in ZT1, it needed the following: dirt,grass, rainforest grass, and freshwater. And mangrove trees. Those trees came in different shapes and sizes. You should put that in ZT2. Also heres another thing to add- primary terrains and secondary terrains. For example, savannah grass would be a primary terrain. You can add sand to it, which covers it making the sand a secondary terrain. Also new animals would be nice. Heres a few examples of animals you should add: Andean mountain cat, bactrian camel, aye-aye, bandicoot, chinchilla, bighorn sheep, blue whale, all 3 species of chimpanzee(well you have one species already heres the other ones: masked and long haired), Chinese river dolphin, echidna, ferret, fossa, giant otter, river otter, hycanith macaw, key deer, and a kinkajou. If you want, suggest more animals. You should also put in new animal variants. For example, rather than just having an orange ibex, you can get a gray one. Also new minigames would be cool. For example for your resturants and food stands, you can serve the items your self. There is a risk. You can either do better than your workers or do worse than your workers.

 

Sorry i wrote so much, ill reply and add more. Hopefully it wont be this long.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

Helen Keller

  I like the animals but not the guess whats in the exhibit or the primry and secondary terreain thing

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Oh yeah, when i stated  "Remember when you had to guess what to put in an exhibit?"

Heres what I mean: You have more biome options for each biome. This will make exhibits look more beautiful. For example, it will tell you what the animal needs in its exhibit. Also I have an idea for a new biome feauture- a new type of grass. it will be like ZT1 beacause you have to put grass in nearly every exhibit. But this grass will be a mix of, for example(it depends on the biome) a grass between savanah grass and grassland grass. If you used the same kind of grass in every exhibit, that would be strange! But with this it will take you more time but like I stated above, the exhibit would look more beatuiful. Also heres another idea for a minigame. You can take things from flowers, trees etc.(for example, you can take a durian from a durian tree) and you make make a new flavor of soda or something new for any of your food shops. You can even name it! When you click on the shop(s) that have this flavor, etc. it will tell you how popular it is. If it isnt that popular, you can take it off the menu for a new flavor. Here's another feature- animal training.

No, i dont mean training marine animals You can train animals in strength, agility, and speed. But their rest need needs to be satisfied. That way, during mating season for the animal,  you can ensure that the strongest, fastest, and most agile animal is the father.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

Helen Keller

Oh thats a good idea

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Your right it could make exhibits harder to make but it will make it more beautiful. Im not blaming you that you dont like it.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

Helen Keller

What about more construction objects? You could make a fountain from a variety of rocks like marble,granite,limestone etc. You could also decorate it with gems( Thank god for freeform mode) Oh yeah not just rocks. Gold, Platinum,silver, god thats gonna be a big expansion. This option will be a sort of manual construction thing. You could even make towers and castles with this option. Guests will be amazed how you afforeded all that(once again, thank god for freeform mode).

Oh yeah and with this expansion with the extinct animals expansion, you can get even more extinct animals! but...

The new expansion+ Extinct animals= more extinct animals

the new expansion+ no extinct animals= no extra extinct animals

So therefore, if you want to have more extinct animals, have the new expansion and extinct animals both downloaded.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

Helen Keller

hey! your ideas are pretty cool. being able to make lush exhibits would be awesome!

but think about this... what if your exhibits could have roofs? like a cage or cement roof. which you could make invisible much like the elevated path. and you could use these roofed cages to contain animals like heron, egrets, parrots, toucans, cockatoos, hornbills, kookaburras, storks, kingfishers, puffin, seagulls, swans, geese, ducks, hawks, ospreys, vultures, and eagles.... and other various assortments of birds or paradise/prey that i may have missed. and also monkeys like tamarains, spider monkeys, howler monkeys, sakis, marmosets, squirrel monkeys. and maybe even some bats?

i think that would be a pretty cool idea. to have birds and monkeys flying or climbing around on cage sides, and you don't have to worry about them escaping and freaking out your guests. how cool would it be to have an exhibit with bald eagles living in the trees above a pair of grizzley bears?

and what do you mean by more extinct animals? like long necked dinos? what about instead of more dinos, there be more animals that are still alive today?.... animals such as black bears, capybaras, gavial, alligators, white tailed deer, red foxes, porcupines, prarie dogs, elk, llamas, wallabies, dingos, tazmanian devils, leopards, spotted hyenas, and ocelots.

give me some feedback on what you think of the ideas i just posted!

peace!!

You have some really good ideas! I especially like the one about making new drinks flavours and the one about the in-between-biomes grass. You're right it would make the game more beautiful.

I think it would be good if you could hand-rear baby animals in zookeeper mode, if they've been rejected by their mother or something.

i really like the roof idea! sometimes, i don't want to leave my exhibits open over the top so it would be useful.
it would also be nice to have a bigger variety of animals. i don't think that there are many small types like foxes and things like birds.
also, i think it might be cool to have weather in the game. according to each month, the weather would change. like snow in the winter. it's just a thought.

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Okapis are my favorite animal if you didn't notice. (Kinkajous are pretty cool too.)

Just an idea,

 

they need to add a new feature that:

(1) lets you make your own money range on free mode because i want it to be kinda real But have all the animals avalaible

(2) lets animal cops come and take away animals that you treat badly or you have to pay a fine but they have to be in critical anger to be takin away.

(3) have way more food types and items to wash your animals

(4) UNLIMITED zoo space!! (add a new fence type that ends your zoo but can be opened wider and wider) 

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1. you would get lostif you had unlimited zoo space
2.it is impossible to have unlimited zoo space
3. have you ever heard of the aspca giong to a zoo to confiscate something

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I like most of your ideas, especially the animals varying in colour, and I think albinism would be good.

yeah that too. sorry i forgot to post that. Also, why not hummingbirds? you can make small exhibits so everybody can see pretty hummingbirds.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

Helen Keller

How about picking the animal variant? Instead of just poofing em till you get the colo you want.

Oh yeah there was really a species of tiger that was supposed to be white. Theyre not extinct(well i dont know)because i went to the zoo and i saw the last white tiger on the face of this earth. Im not sure if its dead yet or sent back to wild though.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

Helen Keller

you know how if you have this with this youll get more? for example, what im saying is that:

If you have extinct animals installed and the new exp installed, youll still get the alive animals and youll get extra, extinct animals. Get it? it doesnt matter if you got the new exp or ea first or last to get xtra extinct animals, it matters if its both installed on same cpu, get it?

So having ea and new xp wont let you lose anything, youll just get some xtra extinct animals.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

Helen Keller