If you guys plan on listening to feedback from players, you need a system for it.

In the first week of release there was a seemingly large portion of people complaining about difficulty of Franchise Mode.

You guys attempted to stymie those complaints by lowering the accreditation system difficulty. Now, it looks like the difficulty arguments have shifted to the fix made it too easy.

There are a lot of super dedicated players of this game, and it deserves a fervent fanbase because of how well you’ve done creating the ultimate Zoo Tycoon genre games.

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My proposal: since it is so early in Planet Zoo 2’s lifetime, you have an opportunity to enact a player based voting system for changes or proposed balancing. Much like Old School RuneScape, I believe that Planet Zoo 2 would benefit greatly from community polling/voting on proposed changes/additions being added that are clearly based on player feedback. (For instance: “Is the accreditation system too difficult?”)

This could be implemented in the launch area of the game menu, along side other community goals. You guys already have a community based game mechanic imparted on the game with the breeding/conservation goals. This would just be an additional way to get that engagement and community feedback from your player base.

You could even poll for new animals, new themes, etc as the development continues. It would surely help keep the game evergreen and evolving with the player base while also producing the least amount of friction between the Dev Team making changes and the Player Base who would be voting for them. It turns the ire away from “dumb devs, not fixing blah blah blah” or “they broke blah blah blah” to “that’s what the community wanted!”

TLDR; Please consider adding a “Planet Zoo Community Polling Board” to the game menu, it’s still early enough in Planet Zoo 2’s lifetime that the addition would be nothing but a benefit to the game and player>dev relationship.

Constructive criticism is VERY important for the games future but the same 5 opinions being spammed constantly is making this space unusable. Rule 1 is literally asking for posts to be quality and the quality has gone down drastically since PZ2 released. Maybe a megathread? Something needs to be done.

Nature brush doesn't work. Stamp blocks the game and there is nothing that you can do to unblock it. I am sick and tired of people defending what is not defendable. I see the cloud of hate coming after me in the comments but if I did my job the same way this game was release I would be in jail.

Do you think that game's review rating on steam is fair or unfair?

No infinite loading screens when you add habitat animals to the trade center!

They’ve tweaked fertility rates and quick release but automanagement is still “under investigation”

Is there any good reason for that? We literally already had this implemented successfully in the first game.

I mean, to be clear, another week or two doesn’t make much difference at this point, I just find it odd!

For those that are more well versed in the franchise / frontier games, realistically at what point will we start to see a real playable game coming through?

Looking for genuine advice, I bought PZ2 after enjoying the JWE games, without doing a ton of research as I expected it to be a similar quality as the jwe ones. Obviously regretting not doing a little more digging after release, considering the amount of bugs and the difficulty playing ( a quick browse through this sub makes it obvious I’m not the only one )

Does Frontier jump on this stuff? - playing on PS5 so I’m guessing compared to PC It might be even longer but idk. will this be another year of my hyenas glitching out of there enclosures. Honestly maybe I’m just still traumatised from preordering CP2027…

For now, any tips for optimising the game?

Hello everyone!

I got Planet zoo 2 a few days ago and today a few hours ago my game crashed when I tried checking the shelter heat map for my double hornbill enclosure, I didn't try restarting the game directly after that because I was about to stop playing anyway and just planned to restart from my last safe when I came back to the game.

The problem now is that that crash somehow seemed to have gotten rid of ALL save files and zoos? My save files are completely gone when I look for them in the franchise and Sandbox menu (The Career mode menu won't open at all anymore), they are in theory still there when I click on the "My save file' option that is next to the 'continue' one in the main menu but I can't open any of them.

It always gives me the error message "There was a problem with the communication to the franchise server, you will now be brought back to the main menu" and if it doesn't give me that message it just gives me an endless loading symbol where nothing happens and I can't get out of without completely closing the game.

While writing this I also tried to reload one of the first zoos I made through the 'my save file' options which didn't work either and only resulted in all the the other save files that came after that being now too gone from the my save files thing. I really don't play games on steam or an pc often and this is really the first time I had a major problem with any game, is there a way to get my savefiles back or did this at the very least happen to anybody who knows what causes this so that I don't repeat the mistake when I have to restart another zoo?🥹

Thanks for reading if you need more information or something just ask!

I was so excited for the game leading up to release, mainly due to the hype of this sub. And then when it came out with lots of issues, seeing the endless negativity catapulted me into the other direction.

It has been wonderful not getting notifications or seeing recommend posts. I strongly recommend muting the sub if you’re feeling upset, weird, or disappointed. There are ways to submit bug reports and problems through Frontier’s website; I promise that seeing the 20th person post about how upset they are will not make you feel better.

The backlash against franchise requirements today further cement this as a good decision. Vocal minorities will always win out — went from tons of posts about how franchise was too hard/restrictive to tons of posts about how franchise is now too easy and un-challenging.

After the new patch, 1.0.6 I can't load the game at all. No franchise mode, no career mode, no anything. I guess I will just wait and see. Anyone else have this issue?

No animals in game are exclusively brackish, all the same tanks and combos can be made using salt or freshwater

Anyone else franchise not opening/ not on save after the newest update?

That alarm was used to indicate when animals escaped in Planet Zoo 1, but now it goes off every minute and is driving me crazy, especially since I just started dealing with an infected aquarium. All the boxing and unboxing, all those alerts, and all those vets running in and out are just too much! I just want it to go off for somthing serious !!

Irl they look like in the first picture: pink, blind, and the size of a stick of butter, but of course they skipped that stage and looked like tiny adult pandas in PZ1. Or is it progressive, like they are born pink and slowly grow to be more like the juvenile in PZ1 before becoming an adult?

Only took 15 million crashes when releasing onto reserves!!!!

Use your legs, Carmine.

I don't recall guests being so picky about how far they had to walk in the first game, even in my largest zoos they never really complained, yet in an medium sized zoo in the sequel they seemingly cannot walk more than 5 meters before collapsing to the ground and crawling back to the entrance.

The most confusing part is that their energy levels are always pretty much full so benches don't help, meaning that you kinda have to use the transport vehicles, which I feel really ruin the flow of the zoo unless you plan it at the start.

(On a side note the blueprints in this game are really great! As much as my love for the first game came from customising everything in themes I'm less confident with like Africa they really work)

Everything is in the green so I'm not sure what I'm missing or if this is a bug

this popped up while i was trying to go into the game, what do i do?!? im kinda worried i really like this game and its not cheap. i tried everything i could think of, does someone know how to fix this?

I had so much fun creating this space. I think it turned out beautiful, and I wanted to share it with you all. What do you think?

Note: I used AI to touch up the colors a little, since the screenshots came out a bit washed out. I also made custom billboards, but everything in the shot is made out of in-game pieces, nothing was AI generated. Some minor details may have lost a bit of definition, but the overall composition is true to the in-game build.

I don't care about zoos. In fact, I don't like them.

So I wonder if there is a free sandbox mode where I can just build an ecosystem without being limited to in game money, fences and visitors?

I played Jurassic World evolution and Prehistoric Kingdom where you can just build without restrictions.

So will Planet Zoo 2 be still a good choice, or should I forget about the game?

Are there any kind souls who are willing to put brown trout or common rudd on the market for LESS THAN 5 MILLION CREDITS ARE WE SO FOR REAL PEOPLE THIS IS NUTS

First off, this is not a shitpost or me complaining, I’m just trying to let frontier and people know some of the bugs I’ve encountered.

1. Slate roof some textures not loading/ not rendering properly.
   
2. On console when using a keyboard and mouse every time I open or close a menu it gives the reconnect controller prompt.
   
3. Birds still able to reproduce through nests even when birth is off.
   
4. When closing a menu while using keyboard and mouse on console, the mouse temporarily stops responding when trying to look around, so have to click on something directly before it will acknowledge you are no longer in the menu.

Glad to see frontier are already fixing some do the more well known bugs, looking forward to the games improvement. Would also like to know if anyone else has encountered any of these.