Author Topic: Njbums Zoo (Read 9603 times)

njbums · « **Reply #25 on:** February 22, 2006, 03:13:36 PM »

After completing my dino exhibits, I picked up the Complete Jurassic Zoo: Gold Stegosaurs award. At this point my dolphin show has generated $15,000.00 in revenue (I need $20,000.00 to win the award) so I started construction on my Orca show.

alloy61 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 22, 2006, 03:16:07 PM »

Great zoo so far! Never thought of doing that with the shark tunnel before!
You're well on your way to all those awards

PS: - how is it that the Apatosaurus isn't escaping and running rampage round your zoo with only a chainlink fence to stop it?

Sloth_bear77 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 22, 2006, 07:25:22 PM »

My guess is that the growned is lowered so it would prevent that??? Same deal with the Allosaurus..

njbums · « **Reply #28 on:** February 23, 2006, 09:47:46 AM »

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alloy61Â PS: - how is it that the Apatosaurus isn't escaping and running rampage round your zoo with only a chainlink fence to stop it?

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Sloth_bear77 My guess is that the growned is lowered so it would prevent that??? Same deal with the Allosaurus
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Sloth_bear 77 guess is correct - I lowered the exhibit two levels which prevents them from escaping, and it doesn't matter what kind of fence you use - that's why I used the cheap chain link fence. I used this technique with Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Camptosaurus, and three other dino's

More pictures and updates later tonight.

njbums · « **Reply #29 on:** February 23, 2006, 06:31:54 PM »

After completion of my Orca show, I started putting in more savannah based animal exhibits (the goal is to put all the savannah animals in to achieve another award).

I started my with my favorite savannah animal the Lion. I also did one of my favorite exhibit layouts, I took the insect house and placed in the middle of where the lion exhibit was going. I then raised it up two levels and put stairs in the front, and I also placed a walkway in so you can walk around the entire perimeter of the building.

At the rear of the building I created a viewing platform, and I then placed the fencing for the exhibit which completely surrounded the insect house with the exception of itâ€™s entrance

njbums · « **Reply #30 on:** February 23, 2006, 06:40:07 PM »

The exhibit building process is going much slower now. After I build two exhibits, I need to go around and do animal maintenance, mainly selling off animals because of exhibits getting overcrowded. After placing in the Lions, I built exhibits for cheetahâ€™s, zebras and gazelles. While in the process of doing this I picked up another award. I have 1000 guests in the zoo, so I picked up the Most Popular Zoo: Gold Certificate and additional 25,000.

alloy61 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 24, 2006, 02:44:47 AM »

Like your insect house :wtg

I never realised that you could stop dinos escaping by sinking the ground slightly - like Rosina's Cat says, I may have to go back to ZT1 and try some of these ideas out!

njbums · « **Reply #32 on:** February 24, 2006, 06:33:55 PM »

Thanks alloy61

The next exhibits I placed were the African wild dogs, ostriches, and olive baboons. My cash is hovering around $575,000.00 to $625,000.00, so from a money standpoint I will be able to complete this challenge, which was something I was concerned about when I started it. I was concerned about it because I wasnâ€™t using any hacks, user created buildings (some of which bring in huge dollars), was paying for all the research, and had to build over 50 exhibits to get all the awards. I grown accustomed to giving myself about 1.5 million dollars when I do a large freeform game, so money isnâ€™t a problem. I probably should have started with $200,000.00 instead of $500,000.00 to make it a lot more challenging.

The next exhibits I placed were Ankylosaurus and Triceratops which are savannah based dinoâ€™s, to keep working towards the savannah award. After setting up these exhibits, I picked up the last Dino award: Quality Dinosaur Care: Blue Ribbon which came with an additional $50,000.00. While doing these exhibits, I noticed my zoo rating was 97, which for me is unusually high when I have a zoo with marine shows.

Wooly Rhino · « **Reply #33 on:** February 24, 2006, 06:35:56 PM »

Looks awesome so far.

How many exhibits do you have?

Ala Okeissua · « **Reply #34 on:** February 24, 2006, 07:16:11 PM »

You really know what you're doing here; you have more money than you started with after all that construction. Great job! I've really enjoyed watching this project develop and must admit I'm a little jealous. My computer simply can't handle a large map without major lag time. I've never been able to complete more than about half of a large zoo before the poor thing gives up. :happy

Keep up the good work! :wtg

Firehawke · « **Reply #35 on:** February 24, 2006, 10:34:24 PM »

I wish I had more time to play ZT right now!!! I'm getting some great ideas from you!!! Congrats on all of the awards and the wonderful stats!!! I can't wait to see what you add next!!!

njbums · « **Reply #36 on:** February 25, 2006, 06:43:21 AM »

Thanks guys

My Orca show is now approaching the $15,000.00 I need to acquire the award, so I placed in the sea otter exhibit and show.

After completing the sea otter show, I went back to building the savannah exhibits. I have to build six more savannah exhibits before I pick up the award. I decided to do two sections of three exhibits. The first one with a picture listed below included: Leopard, Warthog, and Blackbuck exhibits.

After doing some more animal maintenance, I put in the last three savannah exhibits which are: Hippoâ€™s, Flamingoâ€™s and the Red Kangaroo. I picked up the Excellence in Savannah Exhibit Construction award.

njbums · « **Reply #37 on:** February 25, 2006, 06:49:19 AM »

My stats up to this point are:

Zoo Awards: 26
Zoo Rating: 96
Guest Happiness: 97
Animal Happiness: 97

Cash: $716,767.00
Zookeepers: 8
Scientist: 4
Marine Specialists: 5
Maintenance Workers: 5

Total Exhibits:42
Total Animals: 204
Year: 5

Two big reasons for the higher than expected cash balance is:

Profit from compost heap: $292,000.00

Profit from the Swim Shack: $31,148.00 but more importantly right next to it is a Restaurant: $202,776.00

The swimmers get hungry and thirsty and boost my Restaurants profits up.

njbums · « **Reply #38 on:** February 28, 2006, 04:25:45 PM »

Coming down to the homestretch now, the sea otter show is now very near to the $10,000.00 and the 27th award. So I put in the sea lion show ( I need to get $5,000.00 on this show to acquire the award)

Taun · « **Reply #39 on:** March 03, 2006, 06:43:46 AM »

great job, you have really got me in the mood for ZT,

I challenge my self by starting with $10,000 and build up a successful zoo from that, i have one that has over $1,000,000 and is just being refurbished.

njbums · « **Reply #40 on:** March 03, 2006, 10:22:57 AM »

I had extra room in the zoo, so while I was waiting to aquire my last award, I put in primate island (pictued below). The island is surrounded by a croc exhibit, and on the island itself I have three primate exhibits and the primate house

njbums · « **Reply #41 on:** March 03, 2006, 10:29:26 AM »

I now have acquired the sea lion show award, which gives me all 28 awards. :wtg I still have a fair amount of room in the zoo, so I will still be putting in more exhibits amd posting more pictures

My up to date stats:

Awards: 28
Zoo rating: 95
Animal Happiness: 97
Guest Happiness: 90

Cash: 1,082,546.00 (more than double what I started with)
People: 904
Animals: 226
Exhibits: 54

alloy61 · « **Reply #42 on:** March 03, 2006, 11:06:26 AM »

Congratulations!
:fireworks

Bielski · « **Reply #43 on:** March 03, 2006, 12:38:13 PM »

:omg The island is beautiful *goes off to take notes*.

:sun You did a great job with this zoo njbums. I wonder what your next challenge will be

Firehawke · « **Reply #44 on:** March 03, 2006, 04:15:32 PM »

I'm going to be taking some notes, too!
Great, Great, Great job!!! And congrats on the great stats and all of the awards! :wtg What type of fencing did you use for the flamingo exhibit??? How long has the zoo been running?
I can't wait to see what else you put in this zoo!
Now that you've gotten all of the awards in 1 zoo, what's your next challenge going to be?
Keep up the great work Master Zoo Builder!

mo15 · « **Reply #45 on:** March 05, 2006, 10:22:23 AM »

Fantastic work on this zoo! Good job on aquiring all those awards and such great stats! :w00t

njbums · « **Reply #46 on:** March 08, 2006, 07:32:24 PM »

I had a long narrow part at the rear of the zoo, so I put in a rainforest cat walk. All the cats from the rainforest section, and the all the exhibits are lowered down. I plan on putting in Trex and few other animals later.

njbums · « **Reply #47 on:** March 08, 2006, 07:40:01 PM »

The screenshot below (the portion I did) is the other half of what genkicoll's posted earlier on her thread. It's from a recently completed contest, in which we took turns completing 1/4 section of a small zoo. We didn't know who are partner was until the end and our section only was allowed savannah animals.

Firehawke · « **Reply #48 on:** March 10, 2006, 03:14:24 PM »

The cat walk is very impresive! And the "Mystery Date" pic is great, too!!! I'm getting some good ideas from you!!! Keep up the great work!

Kneph · « **Reply #49 on:** March 11, 2006, 02:42:21 AM »

O_O
THAT WAS AMAZING.

:blink
I am stunned. Truely. Congrats!

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Author Topic: Njbums Zoo (Read 9603 times)