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Helpful
Information
Guest Preferences
Added 12/31/01
Includes Favorite animals, fences, objects,
foliage, and paths. Make your guests happier!
Awards & Gifts
Added 12/31/01
How to get those coveted cash awards for
excellent zoo building.
Renaming
Exhibits
In case you have
trouble figuring this out, here's a visual.
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Hungry
Guests/Food Stands
Why do I have lots of hungry guests?
- Hunger Bug. There is a patch that fixes a bug which caused
guests to remain hungry or unhappy even if they are standing near a
food stand or something that should increase their happiness. Get the
patch via the "Get New Items" menu item from the ZT main
menu. Here's a list
of what it fixes.
- Not enough food stands.
Maybe you add more food stands or
perhaps they are all centrally located. Try having one small
"food court" with a few stands, tables and trash cans. Then
disperse more stands throughout the park. Be sure to add a table
and/or trash cans when you place stands.
- Less filling food. Try to place more filling foods such as
hot dogs, hamburgers and pizza (when they become available) since
these fill guests up more (and keep them full longer) than ice cream
or soda/snack machines. Place the more filling (and more expensive)
foods in more high-traffic areas and fill in the gaps with snack
foods.
Email me your tips to help with hungry guests.
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Profit
Ways to make it:
- Jack up the price. Your entrance fee, food and drink prices,
souvenir prices, and attraction prices (rides/ shows/exhibits) can all
be adjusted. So add a buck or two to the price and generate a little
extra revenue. I haven't heard guests complain yet, but if yours do,
let me know what happened.
- Expenses vs. Income. Make sure your attractions and food
stands are raking in more money than you're spending on upkeep.
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making profit.
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Animals feel
"Crowded" by guests
How to Accommodate Shy Animals
- Replace "see-through" fences with solid ones.. Many animals, including several of the
cats in the Big Cats scenario (Intermediate), begin to "feel crowded by too many guests". I solve this, of course, by replacing the "see-through" fences with solid ones (concrete, or wooden). I
make three of the sides "closed" and one side
"open" and leave only about 5 sections of that fence open. Then place viewing canopies over them to show guests where to stand to see the animals. This usually works well with the "shy" animals.
- Redirect traffic. Try not to have paths wrap all the way around an exhibit and make sure you keep traffic moving, so to speak, to avoid big pile-ups in front of a certain exhibit.
Use intersections that lead to interesting attractions (i.e. Animal
Theater, or Animal House)
Email me your tips to help with
crowded animals.
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Fast Cash
Anything for a quick buck.
- Hike up the zoo admission fee, theater and food prices.
- If there are plants, trees or rocks on the map that you won't be using, sell (demolish) them for fast
cash.
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making fast cash.
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Terrain on a Budget
Keep animals happy, don't go broke.
- Watch Animal Happiness. Don't add any more special terrain than is necessary. Watch those little happy faces and add terrain one block at a time and when the happy faces stop, stop spending cash on that way expensive snow or rainforest floor.
- Start from dirt. Most animals like a mixture of terrains. So,
start with the cheapest terrain and then go back and add in the more expensive stuff.
Email me your tips to help with
placing terrain on a budget.
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Angry Guests
Why are they so steamed?
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Animal Treatment.
Many guests are real
activists when it comes to how animals are cared for. If you have a
lot of animals and not enough zookeepers, animals will not be fed as
often, and their exhibits will not be as clean. Remember, it's not the
number of exhibits each keeper takes care of that matters, but the
number of animals involved.
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Needs and Wants.
Angry guests are often those
who cannot find what they need or want (Drinks, bathrooms, trashcans,
etc). Be sure to have a good number of guest necessities evenly
distributed throughout your zoo.
Email me your tips on
dealing with angry guests.
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Maintenance
Workers
Some problems that can occur
- MW's will try to do the same job at
once when there is plenty of work to be done elsewhere.
- MW's will pass up full trash can after
full trash can to repair a fence on the other side of the zoo
- MW's occasionally do nothing at all.
How to deal with this:
- Don't use them. Some players
choose not to use MW's and get around it by fixing fences themselves
(add a new piece over the decaying piece) and using restaurants, which
generate no trash, instead of using food stands with trash cans.
- Don't have too many. Some
players opt for one or two MW's in the whole zoo and use restaurants
and fix fences themselves (see above).
- Ignore the problem.
Sometimes
it's the only way to deal :)
Email me your tips on
dealing with lazy/dumb maintenance workers.
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Boost
Ratings with Tricky Foliage
Use your grid
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Make sure the grid is on
(CTRL+G) Place a tree or other plant in a square one at a time until
the animals give a sad face. Then delete the last one and fill up the
squares that already contain foliage. Many trees/bushes can be placed four
to a square, others cannot. Animals don't consider this as more
foliage, but they like it better. This will increase your ratings
dramatically!
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Animal
House Attractions
Research pays off!
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Animal
Happiness
What's wrong with them?
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Free Space! Who'd
have thought this would be an issue, but it seems that animals have a
specified amount of open area they prefer. For example, Siberian
Tigers want 50% of their exhibit space to be open area (i.e. put the
trees and rocks toward the fence). It's strange yes, but just try it.
If you've got an animal who has everything they need and more, try
moving the foliage to the outside of their exhibit and see if that
doesn't work.
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Zookeeper's
Magic Touch. Animals become happier
when the zookeeper enters their exhibit.
If you need a quick boost in animal
happiness, put your zookeeper in the
exhibit, wait for him to leave, and then
put him back in. This can help ratings
hit the green again!
Animals That Can't
Jump
(all others can)
- African Warthog
- Giant Anteater
- Black Rhino
- Hippo
- California Sealion
- Greater Flamingo
- African Buffalo
- Dromedary Camel
- Salt Water Crocodile
- American Bison
- Emperor Penguin
Animals That Can Climb
(all others can not)
- Olive Baboon
- Chimp
- Mandrill
Entrance
Happiness Boosters
Make your guests happy from the get go
If you can hike up your guest's levels
from the moment they enter the zoo, your job will be a lot easier as
they walk through the zoo, since you won't have to try SO hard to make
EVERYTHING look gorgeous. Try these things:
- Use the brick path at the
entrance, a couple or even three tiles wide if you have room.
- Place statues, fountains, and pleasing
foliage near the entrance.
- Consider a courtyard
with
flowebeds, benches and a fountain or vending machines. Be creative!
- Use those tour guides!
Yeah,
they're annoyingly expensive, but just buy one and use the Tour
Guide Cheat so they're cheaper, then hire more. Guests love
them!
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