hehe thanks Lady! what a surprise that we agree ;)

i am a big fan of your builds Lady!

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I mean....its fair to ask every now and then? :D

Imagine if Rudi was like "I just realized I have wasted all this time in these years! But at least luckily for you guys I have the Palm zoo pre-recorded and just gave the Zoo Sicily tour, so that's enough of that. Other than that, have a good time, thank you for watching and see you in the next one!! 😊"

@@RudiRennkamel absolutely true

@@brandybottlepond that would be absolutely hilarious

NGL, one of the reasons i bought a new pc was to play planet zoo well 😅

My computer is so bad, I didn't even realize there was animal poop in the game until I saw it on UKposts. 😂 I am basically playing with PlayStation One level graphics and loading times and I still love it.

Im waiting for it to come on Sale so I can buy it

Lol yeah that's a difference haha

As far as we know, support runs through this year and then they will just evaluate again if the sales are still good enough to keep support up. But eventually Frontier would want to move on to other projects.

Hey, you can add tags to building items and then search those tags, so it's basically like project folder.

I really believe that Planet Zoo is more of a simulation game than a management game. That being said, I do really enjoy the management elements that are in Planet Zoo, and they are deeper than you'd think. The issue is that the game is not very good at drawing your attention to them. For instance, you might run into a problem where you constantly have animals that have low welfare due to stress. This is because it is important to not place low confidence animals near the busy areas of your zoo. However, does the game ever warn you about that? Or provide a pop-up to let you know that your animals don't have anywhere to hide? Nope. The problem can be mitigated by adding speakers, one-way glass, and "do not disturb" signs, but does the game ever teach you how to do that? Also nope. There are so many neat systems in this game, this is just one example, but the game itself doesn't do a very good job of onboarding players or explaining its own mechanics. It expects that players will explore as they go, which works for me, but I understand why it doesn't for many.

@@alexaliss8233 I look at games like zoo tycoon 2, cities skylines or others and I see that after 3 years planet zoo remains the same. Nothing considerably new. And the examples you provided I do not consider them very deep. And the issues you highlight are called "quality of life" improvements. Which is different from enhanced or deeper gameplay. Rudy highlighted a few things. The conservation credits is so shallow. Diseases and animal reproduction is so shallow. I can make a whole text about if you want.

Und um einmal meine eigene Meinung hier zu nennen: ich persönlich finde das Spiel wirklich gut, und verfolge/besitze das Spiel auch schon seit der Beta. Als jemand der ebenfalls vor allem im sandbox-Modus spielt, gibt es jedoch, trotz der vielen Freiheiten die das spiel bietet einige Probleme, z.B. der riesige Zeitaufwand welcher es mir sehr schwierig macht große, Zusammenhängende Strukturen zu erbauen (wobei mir keine Lösung einfällt, die nicht die Freiheit des Spiels einschränken würde), oder die fehlende Struktur im Baumenü (warum gibt es von den rigibs-Wänden keine frei platzierbaren Varianten, aber eine mit loch hindurch? Warum gibt es eine afrikanische Wand, welche die Maße 4x4 hat, aber nur halb so dick ist wie die normalen Wände, während es bei den anderen Arten nur die 2x4 als Größte Variante gibt? Da wäre ein Einheitswert nicht schlecht!) trotz all dieser Fehler, ist die bereits benannte Freiheit die das Spiel bietet, einer der größten Pluspunkte, welcher es für mich persönlich zu einem der besten, wenn nicht sogar DEM besten sandbox-/bau-spiel macht. Viele Grüße aus Hamburg (Osterferien und so) :) And to give my own opinion here: I personally think the game is really good, and have been following/own the game since the beta. As someone who also plays mainly in sandbox mode, however, despite the many freedoms that the game offers, there are some problems, e.g. the huge amount of time that makes it very difficult for me to build large, coherent structures (although I can't think of a solution that would not limit the freedom of the game), or the missing structure in the construction menu (Why is there an African wall that has the dimensions 4x4, but is only half as thick as the normal walls, while in the other types there is only the 2x4 as the largest variant? A unit value would not be bad!) Despite all these mistakes, the already named freedom that the game offers is one of the biggest plus points, which makes it one of the best, if not the best sandbox/building games for me personally. Best regards from Hamburg (Easter holidays and so on)

I see your points - but for a fair review, I simply can´t take Mods or the Game Industry from 20 years ago into account. Nowadays DLCs are common and a huge part of the reason why Games exist in the first place. We can thank EA for that. Also Mods are not a valid reason as to judge a "base" game. In this specific case it makes no difference if they are helpful or not - they are not made or intended by the creator. So you cant use them as element of the game. The only thing I don´t buy is your graphics/animations argument. You are making your ZT2 world brighter than it is ;) realistically PZ is so so so much better in any way. The mods of ZT2 have become insanely good but you can´t change shaders and engine.

It's on their channel. These were the Dev videos before launch

yes!

What helps for me is using parts of buildings found in the steam workshop and making it my own by changing it to work w the enclosure or just havibg it as a centerpiece

what is going on kane? you are way to close to my opinion :D:D

@@RudiRennkamel What's going on here is that i like Planet Zoo, but i'm just disappointed by the execution of it and frustrated by my lack of skills to be good at the game.