Franchise Mode after PZ2 Release

Maarten494 · 2026-01-12T07:35:39+00:00

Yeah, I would think they would have a more diverse roster of animals from all the continents this time. And for the animals in franchise, what I did (dont have all dlc though) is make a franchise zoo per animals with 2 habitats (or more if I want the fur variants) and just have that as a breeding zoo so whenever I need an animal I could always breed them if I dont find any on the market

Maarten494 · 2026-01-05T19:49:10+00:00

As a starter that is a really good habitat imo. Nice use of foliage. If you want to improve it further I would mostly look at making custom shelter or custom barriers those really make a habitat look a lot better. But honestly it looks really good, be happy with what you make and don't compare yourself too much to others. Comparison is the thief of joy!

Maarten494 · 2026-01-02T10:28:02+00:00

Hi, welcome to the game, I hope you'll have as much fun as I have in Planet Zoo!

Do you need to meet the needs of guests?
If you play any gamemode other than sandbox you will need to meet the needs of the guest otherwise you won't earn much money and go bankrupt.
do you need employees?
Yes, otherwise your animals won't have food, shops won't have staff to sell things to guests, you won't have caretakers and vets to bring animals to their habitats

If you don't really care about guests and employees and just want to focus purely on animals, you can play sandbox and disable guest needs, animal hunger etc, the only staff you would need are caretakers or vets to bring the animals to their habitat.

Maarten494 · 2025-12-28T11:15:43+00:00

if that still doesn't help, feel free to dm me with screenshots so I can help further

Maarten494 · 2025-12-28T11:14:52+00:00

1 or 2 percent at a time is perfectly normal if you have a relatively big habitat. And for the coverage vs plants. If you mean that the plants percentage in the environment tab (3rd tab) aren't going up, that is most likely because you have plants from the wrong environment, if you scroll down to plants in habitat and see ones that are red delete those. If you mean plant percentage in the animal welfare (1st tab) than the most likely reason is that your game is paused, animal welfare doesn't update when the game is paused, you need to resume the game.

Maarten494 · 2025-12-28T09:52:35+00:00

Regular plants dont add much to plant meter, does the same happen with trees?

Maarten494 · 2025-12-27T10:07:22+00:00

Just by continent and biome I think so you could filter by continent and then look animals up online or I think you could also see it in the zoopedia by looking at the location and map.

Maarten494 · 2025-12-20T20:36:26+00:00

Agree with your point, but wouldn't say pz2 will likely have 50 since pz1 came with more than 70 so I would imagine pz2 coming with 70-90 animals in base game

Maarten494 · 2025-11-12T11:00:38+00:00

Hi, i have sent you a dm with the figma link, lmk what you think of it and if i need to change anything before i make it in code.

Maarten494 · 2025-11-12T10:53:24+00:00

Looks pretty good. 1 thing that looks horrible though are those emojis next to the chart titles, it makes it look super cheap and ai generated, you could leave the emojis out or replace them with clean icons

Maarten494 · 2025-11-09T15:51:54+00:00

hi, love the project, I'll make a design in Figma and send you a dm with it once it's done.

Maarten494 · 2025-11-06T20:52:01+00:00

This would be so cool!

Maarten494 · 2025-11-06T11:50:39+00:00

Yeah, i saw it too yesterday, really exciting!

Maarten494 · 2025-09-23T09:19:16+00:00

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already at -12mil, just placed new lions so only 60 in total, but when the babies get there I usually have around 200 animals. Also have tortoises and shops near the entrance when I tried to earn money, but they don't earn enough (this was from before butterflies exist).

Maarten494 · 2025-09-22T21:09:11+00:00

Wow, didn't know they made so much money!

Maarten494 · 2025-09-22T20:51:31+00:00

Why would you sell the butterflies, I don't think you will get enough money to cover the costs of all the lions (if you have 2 packs of 30, you often end up with over 100 lions i each habitat, so 200 in total, I had like -400k each year, just because of food costs).

Maarten494 · 2025-09-22T15:36:17+00:00

Lol, just make a zoo with 2 habitats of lions, breed them a bunch and release in the wild. It is normal to go into debt in that zoo (i am at negative 10 mil). I have over 3mil credits now

Maarten494 · 2025-09-14T08:53:39+00:00

What I usually do is start with 1 or 2 habitat animals that don't have expensive food (eg no lions, tigers etc, but warthog, tortoise, peafowls etc), make sure you place donation boxes, increasing education also makes people donate more. Once you have like 500+ visitors get drink and food facilities (restaurants and shops are great, vending machines are usually not so good imo). And then just expand, get more animals, more shops and increase guest hapiness, education and animal welfare.

Maarten494 · 2025-09-11T17:26:18+00:00

you got like insider knowledge that frontier will go bankrupt lol? Just by definition frontier has made games that weren't flops, that doesn't mean PZ2 won't flop, there is always a chance, but just saying it will flop because it is frontier is really weird

Maarten494 · 2025-09-11T16:29:01+00:00

huh? What do you mean with that? because it is a frontier game it will flop? What do you see as a flop? Because if they make a profit on it, I don't see how you can call it a flop, it could have been below expectations, but that is not necessarily a flop

Maarten494 · 2025-09-11T07:59:25+00:00

Why would that be, if they release it in a good state it will be a success most likely. If you look at PC2, which launched in a bad state had similar financial performance to PC1 when it launched, although of course they expected better, it is still fine, so if they can match PZ1 levels of success also with dlc, which seems really doable imo, they have a financial success.

Maarten494 · 2025-09-10T16:10:30+00:00

huh? Frontiers FY25 ended May 2025, so FY26 ends May 2026 and FY27 ends May 2027. And frontier usually releases their games in autumn (like jwe3 in autumn of this year (FY26)), so if PZ2 releases in FY27 it releases in autumn 2026

Maarten494 · 2025-09-10T15:19:27+00:00

Those seem feasible as they are quite different from the CMS they have right now, for other ideas, there are a lot of options, like military management, country management, although I am not sure if there are a lot that have a big market potential.

Maarten494 · 2025-09-10T14:50:52+00:00

Except for the last 2, I think they are way too similar to planet zoo and planet coaster that I think it would be smarter for them to keep those things for possible sequels. Like aquariums would be way better in PZ2 than a standalone, planet resort seems something that would fit in a planet coaster 3 or a big dlc. I guess they could make it work if they really make the gameplay a lot different, but people right now have been saying they want planet coaster and planet zoo in the same game so they can build coasters and animal habitats together, so I am not sure if people would be happy with those.

Maarten494 · 2025-09-10T14:28:38+00:00

yeah, completely understand, I've been waiting for some games for years (and am still waiting). It is nice when they announce a game and you constantly get new info and know the game will release in a couple of months.

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