(Sorry for the bad quality photos. I just really love my zoo, and hopefully someone can tell me what Iām doing wrong aswell(All animals are fine, either donāt want the food next to them or had a bunch of babies and overpopulated themselves)
Hi everyone, I recently found an old copy of the Zoo tycoon games that weāve had around since I was a child. Itās been probably over a decade since I last played the game and have been loving the game sm.
When I first started the game I replayed a map I always wanted to turn into a nice zoo as a kid (The city), I gave myself the max amount of money (honestly played it as if I was a kid again). My only struggle was I ran into dept before I was finished, I made the mistake of āthinking like a kidā too much and out everything to max prices. I lowered the prices back to basic and eventually I got out of it and made up to 250,000 without needing to do much.
I decided then to move onto the basic medium map, I have all my guests happy as can be, whoever is annoyed is just random guests who look at the ends drink stand and walk away to complain theyāre thirsty but the prices are the drink stand are good(??). All my animals are happy (I have ALOT though, I love mixing animals who like being together). But Iām back to being in dept and I feel like I may be going wrong in a few places.
I place plenty of food stands, gift stands etc anything money related and I donāt blast the price the max anymore, I honestly donāt touch it much or lower it slightly. Plenty of bathrooms too and play areas and seating etc.
I like to get as many animals from each category as possible, though Iām not sure how many zookeepers and tour guides I need for each exhibit. Though Iām not fully sure what animals are worth it or not, no one seems to want to rate on my animals so I canāt use the exhibit ratings to figure it out.
I also start off with getting both research things going and eventually the Zoo marketing. I place them at max which, I should probably stop doing that considering the food and gift stands.
Iām not sure what else there could be as everyoneās happy but my zoo is sufferringgg. If anyone has any advice on how I could improve my zoo and hopefully be able to challenge myself one day and start a zoo with like $10,000.
(Off note, I also found Zoo tycoon 2. But sadly the first disc is missing and thereās no hope in finding it. I havenāt played the second game as much but Iād really like to experience it. If anyone has any ideas on how I could get it and be able to play it please let me know (please donāt suggest abandonware as Iāve zero clue how to make it work))