Anyone else disappointed with the Beavers?

[Sherrie]

I was so excited to have them because I used to love them in the old zoo tycoon, it was awesome when you'd put down sticks and watch them gather them to make a dam. Well I couldn't find any sticks in the enrichment tools, but I watched them for hours and no dam, then I googled and found that they don't make them in PZ I felt really disappointed and slightly ripped off.

[Protus]

I have yet to see any animal make there own habitat or beds. How many animals did the first one have compared to this game?

[Sherrie]

I'm not sure how many, off the top of my head, but both zoo tycoon 1 and 2 had too many to count. With expansions there were also extinct (like the dodo) and endangered animals as well as marine animals. There were even little hidden gems to find like mermaids and a yeti. The mermaids even sang a siren song. there were also more for guests to do such as playground rides. The only reason I play this game instead of the old zoo tycoons is the limit the old ones had to the amount of visitors in the zoo, just a couple of hundred., and of course the better graphics.

[Mjella14]

There is an enrichment item where they can build atleast a little dam and some wood chiping animations. Looks even better if you somehow blend that in with an existing river. But yes, there's no dam building in any random river you give them.

[Chiken]

i built my own dam and put it on the workshop. the beauty of this game isnt the assets you have available, it is the tools you have to build your own assets. The game devs are trying to build everything for you.

[HareMoose]

It's not the same, but build a wooden wall in their enclosure and leave it marked as a habitat wall. You'll get to see them flock to it and absolutely destroy it.

The lack of AI is probably not a bad thing because of the memory load this game requires. Even good PCs just cannot handle so much going on if you try to fill the entire map. As zoos get bigger, there are more issues with stuck animals, climbing/pools not being recognized, and staff forgetting their brains.

Not really a gripe and just an observation, I do feel like some of the latest animals are a little wonky. I'm not sure if this is a cut in staff so maybe the PZ dept isn't getting the same QA. Some of the animal animations are still beautiful and realistic, but I notice more glitchiness/weirdness in some of the animals from the North American and North African packs. I do not like watching the moose climb up/down hills, it makes me quite uncomfortable

[Sherrie]

Thanks, I'll try that with the beavers, sounds fun!

I know what you mean about glitches in larger zoo's, as soon as mine gets to a decent size the animals walk through walls quicker than Casper!