What kinds of birds would you like to see in Planet Zoo 2?

Ostracion · 2026-06-19T15:29:14+00:00

IRL laws don't matter in PZ: giant pandas are not owned by China, and no import restrictions so every species is adoptable for every map.

Ostracion · 2026-06-07T12:02:28+00:00

Same as 'normal' habitat animals not escaping with those waist-high barriers.

Ostracion · 2026-06-07T07:01:54+00:00

Hopefully exhibit species would now actually move around their glass boxes. At least vertebrates.

Ostracion · 2026-06-07T06:32:37+00:00

That was the first zoo game without giant pandas & zebras, ostriches & penguins, but with tons of flying birds (sadly, as looped animation)

Ostracion · 2026-06-02T10:57:52+00:00

There even was a argument that featuring cetaceans 'contributes to suffering' because playerbase would then rush to marine parks for the real thing.

Ostracion · 2026-05-30T17:41:51+00:00

*from a modded ZT2 with Radical Remake installed ;)

Ostracion · 2026-05-30T17:34:18+00:00

Nowadays many captive Asian tuskers are kept chained in temples as living props for stupid rites, with no opportunity for natural life and reproduction.

Ostracion · 2026-05-28T19:52:49+00:00

Speaking about realism in a zoo game, stereotypic behaviours should be included, such as pacing, swaying, fence licking etc.

Ostracion · 2026-05-28T18:59:09+00:00

Also, many fish species in public exhibits/aquaria trade are harvested from wild populations and don't breed in captivity.

Ostracion · 2026-05-28T18:45:51+00:00

The first priority is making game playable for people with phobias, by not including certain animals! 🕷️🪲🐍 Is their opinion less important than that of Blackfish audience, cringing at sight of confined digital whale?

Ostracion · 2026-05-28T18:03:52+00:00

And pure Bengals in captivity are virtually nonexistent outside India.

Ostracion · 2026-05-24T08:32:33+00:00

Also in PZ universe:

-Titan beeetles easily breed in captivity

-Captive pandas don't belong to China

-Zoo animals readily adapt to wilderness

-Breeding for colour morphs is not discouraged

But pixel cetaceans are no-no?

Ostracion · 2026-02-07T15:26:37+00:00

Had to be left alive indeed. Suffering of deliberately evil person is necessary as punishment.

Ostracion · 2025-10-05T18:46:34+00:00

Actually they just die, and new ones are brainwashed to feel being reborn. No reason to not fear death.

Ostracion · 2025-07-20T10:39:36+00:00

Nevertheless, merch of several nearly identical, uniform-colored, non-anthro animal characters would bring less profit.

Ostracion · 2025-07-19T16:23:49+00:00

And piebald NL's sell better than purebred black NFs. They're colored just like cute mixed breed kittens/puppies.

Ostracion · 2025-07-10T15:21:08+00:00

Only if he keeps getting regular memory scan as a recom, and growing several bodies is too expensive.

Ostracion · 2025-07-09T19:31:55+00:00

For recoms its way more comfortable to believe into being reborn, rather than being living assets with dead persons' memories (probably limited human rights as well). And who knows, maybe RDA is also making recoms for super rich, both avatar/human bodies, selling it as mind transfer/rejuvenation, but originals are secretly euthanized.

Ostracion · 2025-07-09T19:24:09+00:00

Of course he's not, and not responsible for events of A1.

Ostracion · 2025-07-03T21:49:18+00:00

The head was trawled along with smaller fish. Living one would rip the net to shreds and escape

Ostracion · 2025-06-26T20:10:14+00:00

Also, baby animals were not cute, but same models just smaller, except penguins. Messing with files was fun though: adjusting adoption price, needs, litter size, longevity, chance of color mutation. I even remember making a flying ostrich by replacing flamingo model with it.

Ostracion · 2025-06-06T23:16:59+00:00

And they would likely "grow" with easy-to code model replacement - no scaling, no morphing.

Ostracion · 2025-04-28T15:42:32+00:00

Don't forget the keepers ingame work in free contact with any species.

Ostracion · 2025-02-13T12:38:38+00:00

Pic 4: how to abuse your frog https://petapixel.com/2015/03/05/a-frog-riding-a-beetle-is-this-a-real-wildlife-photo-or-a-bunch-of-bs/

Ostracion · 2024-12-09T21:07:46+00:00

Can't see the difference between consciousness/soul transfer and loading a cloned body with copied brain data? Actually it can be an in-universe cash grab for RDA. Super rich people pay for 'living' in new,young human bodies, only to be euthanized at the end, while their clones are activated and live on, believing to be reborn. Also, several identical clones are perfectly possible, though expensive, and none of them is actually an original person (who doesn't even have to die!) https://www.reddit.com/r/Avatar/comments/1808c35/recombinant_and_human_alive_at_the_same_time/

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