DLC's

[abletudu]

Are any of the DLC's worthwhile? Do any of them increase the map size? If you try to include all the animals from the DLC's plus the various other things like shops, paths, exhibit kiosks, necessary buildings, etc. you would find it impossible on the current map size. It is virtually impossible now without a DLC.

[Just Kevin]

They all are. they don't just add animals. And no they don't increase the map size, but the sandbox is huge. You would need a powerful PC to run a zoo that fills it.

[grampers62]

Yeah, even with a really powerful computer one may never be able to support the ai for a zoo with all of the animals. As for map size it's one square kilometer of playable area. That's 1000 meters by 1000 meters, more than large enough to kill the performance on most computers before it gets totally filled with habitats.
So no, It's not feasible to attempt a zoo with all of the animal species in one zoo. This is one reason we have franchise play. It allows players to create multiple zoos as a single business entity than has the diversity of all species among them.

[abletudu]

can you connect various maps? In other words can you travel from one map to another without exiting the game?

[grampers62]

Originally posted by abletudu:

can you connect various maps? In other words can you travel from one map to another without exiting the game?

Not exactly... You can simply go back to main menu and load a different zoo in the franchise but we can not jump from one franchise zoo to another.
In sandbox, we may simply choose to load another zoo from the esc menu.

[Just Kevin]

I am not sure why you would want to join maps.

[RanchSmoothie]

Originally posted by Just Kevin:

I am not sure why you would want to join maps.

I can see the appeal because you could then create each zoo as simply a section of a bigger "meta zoo" so to speak, connected by loading screens basically. So you could create a small "africa zoo" and a small "asia zoo" and then put a point on the map or an option in the menu to "fast travel" to one or the other, making it seem more like one big zoo.

I don't think that would ever be a feature though since it would just be cutting out the step of "go back to main menu".

As to the OP, the only DLC I don't have personally is the barnyard animals, because frankly those are the only animals I don't care about seeing in a zoo lol. I also would personally say picking up DLC on sale is far more of a good value than buying them at cost. Most of them imo are not really worth the base price when you consider how much content they add vs the amount of content that was in the base game (they don't really add 1/4th of a game's worth of content for most of them) but at 50% off i would say almost all of them are worth it if you enjoy the animals in the pack.

For reference, the base game had like 75~ animals (give or take a couple depending on Deluxe version or not) and each dlc usually adds like 5-8 animals iirc, meaning at best they are 1/10th of a game, so should be around $5 at most imo.

[Just Kevin]

Seeing as the Sandbox is so huge, Zones could be created to emulate different environments. In fact that's what expected when creating habitats, because every animal has different needs.

[Just Kevin]

Oh, and DLCs don't just add animals. Compared to DLCs for other games, the price of ones for PZ are peanuts.

[abletudu]

Thank you all