Zoopedia Barrier Height M to FT??

[wittyuser]

So I'm not sure if this is because of the patch or not but when I go to check the height requirements it shows ft instead of meters? So the new Amure Leopard it shows as 10 ft and obviously I thought it meant meters because it usually is and I gasped I'm like no way it's that tall and lo and behold it says ft instead of m.

[Jaggid Edje]

Barrier height in the zoopedia doesn't seem to use what you set for ft. vs. meters in settings. For me, it's always been the case that some animals it shows in meters and others in feet, regardless of what I have the setting at.

[wittyuser]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Barrier height in the zoopedia doesn't seem to use what you set for ft. vs. meters in settings. For me, it's always been the case that some animals it shows in meters and others in feet, regardless of what I have the setting at.

I didn't know you could even change that setting, since I've had this game it's always been meters. I've never had this bug before I download the dlc. It's weird because it's only the height requirement, below the others; and those are in meters!?

[Jaggid Edje]

There are a handful of other animals that also display in feet. You just probably never noticed them, it isn't many.

Pretty much all of them ignore the setting though. If you change it to show measurements in feet in the settings, you'll still get meters for the barrier height for almost all animals in the zoopedia. But the in-game barrier height markers when you are placing barriers will show in feet.

That's actually the only reason I have distances set to meters rather than feet (I'm in the US), because the the zoopedia doesn't convert the height and it's too much bother to have to do math all the time.

[wittyuser]

Trust me I've gone through all of the zoopedia, it's all meters except the height barrier requirements, in all the animals. It's odd. I still haven't checked this setting you keep mentioning, for me the in game barrier height markers still show meters (what It's been) only in zoopedia it shows feet. Like I have to convert this back to meters to know how tall i need the barriers lol (also in the US)

[Jaggid Edje]

The setting I'm referring to is under Settings->Interface. "Distance unit" It defaults to meters unless you change it.

I just was looking in the zoopedia and you're right, almost ALL of the animals now show barrier height in feet instead of meters. It used to be just a handful of them.

I have a spreadsheet where I input alll of the info regarding animal habitat requirements in a data table, in order to facilitate and automate calculations for size and terrain requirements of mixed-species habitats, and that wasn't the case in the past. I only had to do the feet-to-meters conversion for a handful of them when inputting the data.

It looks like they did something to clean-it-up and make it consistent. They still failed though, because now 'most' animals are showing it in feet, but several still show meters (Cheetah and Indian Peafowl for example).....It'd be nice if they all showed based on what you have in settings, like the habitat size requirement does.

[wittyuser]

Hmm that is weird, this is my first DLC I've gotten so maybe that's why it's always been consistent. I guess I'll just have to convert them and write them down and keep it handy when I want to play lol

At least until they hopefully fix it.

Thanks for your feedback!

[grampers62]

It's been a complaint on most of the PZ forums that species are not listed consistently for a while now.