mechanics that surprised you?

[MetaKnight]

5 hours ago, Khaydar said:

When using APE I've found beached animations for the beluga. I guess they first planed to show aquatic animals struggling on land, but was scraped due to the game being family friendly

 

Here's a gif showing the animation

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Now this seems really interesting, as does the earlier discussion of tanks using temperature and salinity (it would make tanks a lot more complicated to build than they currently are). I'm curious, what's the specific documentation that references these cut elements? Building on this, is there any good resource for documentation of cut or beta content from Zoo Tycoon? The Cutting Room Floor page of Zoo Tycoon is sadly not up to date at all, and missing stuff. For example, apparently there's female sprites and animations of the Bigfoot that aren't implemented despite all the material being there. I wonder if the Yeti has them too, and if so if someone could add them back in (I imagine if the sprites are all there it shouldn't be too hard).

 

Also as a theory for this, I notice it's a Beluga, maybe the original plan was certain aquatic animals could jump out of the tank and beach themselves?

[Firehawke]

I LOVE the Jellyfish Show!  They go up, they go down...my guests hate it, but I could watch it for HOURS!  Which is probably why I love the Monterey Bay Aquarium live jelly stream on YouTube :P

 

I love some of the other in game Easter Eggs and the punniness that go along with them...especially my 3 favorite...Shift+4, Bob V, and Alfred H. :P

[(Admin)Cricket]

I use Shift+4 and Bob V all the time! 

[bonobo]

haha bob v! my current park has a glitch where maintenance workers will crash the game every few minutes due to failing to reach their target objects. so i fired them all and it was running fine, and went to look for the cheat that fixes fences. i found it... then saw i had to name a maintenance worker lol. was hoping it was a guest! now i have to hire and name the worker, pause quickly, and fire him immediately in order to stop my fences from breaking or the game crashing.