Zoo Limit and/or Animal Variety idea

So, as I'm sure many have realized, the "zoo limit" is extremely hard to work with after about level 25 on any zoo. What is ALSO frustrating is that even in a large exhibit, you can only place two SPECIES of animals, even if they're the same family. I
know it's not a PC game, and modding/hacking comes at the user's risk MUCH more so than the PC versions. Though I've found ways of compensating, and only placed mini-exhibits, or only small in order to satisfy the animal "variety" that guests demand, as well
as satisfying all of their other needs, it's disappointing to only use HALF or LESS of my zoo's given "space" to accomplish a fully functional zoo at the highest "limit."

My "best" idea for HELPING with this is increase the animal variety PER EXHIBIT. Like, for a medium exhibit, allow me THREE species? or FOUR for a large? Otherwise, they are entirely pointless except for TEMPORARY breeding goals/achievements.

Another idea I've had is a way WITH ACHIEVEMENTS or GOALS to increase the "zoo limit." For example "breeding 100 babies." If I can do that, then I can certainly handle managing more "attractions" in my zoo. I have two zoos at level 30 that I've had to
scrap because ALL of my guest's "desires" are in the yellow or red, and with the limit, the only way to "fix" this is to purposely FAIL at missions to get my visitor numbers to STOP or GO DOWN. This IS NOT what any real zoo owner would want to do! The limit
just limits how long most players are willing to play at one zoo, making all of them only short term zoos, which is unrealistic.

I understand that the limit is there PARTIALLY for the quality of the operating system, and it DOES noticeably slow down visually as the limit is approached, but this is why on other versions, we had Graphics settings that we could tweak to allow us to still
play with massive zoos, and HUNDREDS of animals. YES, it is made to be a beautiful game, but us DIE HARD fans will be willing to make a graphics sacrifice for the sake of a bigger zoo, a longer running zoo, and HAPPY GUESTS, which is ALWAYS the biggest challenge
in every version.

Again, these are IDEAS. I'm not a designer, I'm not a tech person, I don't know how hard any of these changes will actually be, so if they're impossible, just tell us nicely.

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Animal Variety

Does anybody know by chance how to get the animal variety up with the zoo limit? thanks!

 

Recommendation to increase animal variety

Totally Agree.

More variety everywhere really. Why do the zoo patrons in India or Africa look like the crowd at the zoo in St Louis?

Why can't I build a proper habitat for polar bears?

Why is there a zoo limit? I have one of practically every animal and my patrons still complain about a lack of variety????? What the heck.

Stupid logic

 

If the limit is caused by graphic limitations, it is simple not well programmed. I am a programmer myself. Yes I never programmed a huge game, but I simply can not imagine that this game and the graphics need a great amount of computation. If someone else
may correct me I am open for a correction and explanation. I mean look at other games Assasins Creed(hundreds of peple), Fifa(physics), Battlefield(physics and graphics), Ryse(graphics). These games probably a far more complex than Zoo Tycoon. Maybe they should
just put more effort in a game. Maybe the most timespend on the game were spent by designers instead of devs.

I am really disappointed because of the zoo limit. The game could be really awesome. I amso disappointed, that i wrote an email to the developers to ask if they might change this. Since the game is out now for almost 2 years my expectations for an update
are pretty low.

I really hope they prove me wrong and simple remove or at least make the limit way bigger. I am looking forward to it because I think this game is a really cool way to calm down and relax.