Ok folks, here is the scoop!
After reinstalling ZT2 on my pc, I opened the map to see what the problem was....there were many issues...
1) Animal happiness was in the red!!!!
2) Guest happiness was in the red!!!!
Donations were not coming in, guests were leaving unhappy, ring-tailed lemurs were throwing themselves into the water, etc.......!!!!!
The reason there were no adoptions allowed was simple. The Animal Organizations warning showed we were unable to adopt any animals. The zoo was in such deplorable conditions that it appeared that purchases were not possible; and I did not know this was possible!?!? I knew that animals could not be adopted, but to make even the most simple purchase of a water dish was not possible!!
Our first lesson: Zoo Building 101=keep the animals happy first, the guest will come, and money will come in their pockets!
First, I went into zoo keeper mode and started cleaning exhibits, feeding and grooming animals.
Then I reassigned zoo keepers to several exhibits. This was a problem: You can have as many gates as you want, but if you block the gate with an object, the zoo keeper cannot get in or out!
Then I started using all the tools the game provides for us.
I checked the animal exhibits one by one, first big problem: Way too many animals in the exhibits, thus the zoo keepers could not clean up, or feed fast enough. I think that 23 Koalas is cute, but 23! I started releasing and adopting animals.
No sooner did this happen and the donations started coming in again.
I sold the entire elevated pathwork for money since no one was using them.
I added restaurants and restrooms as the guests were all complaining.
I checked the skytram and no one was riding and the average donation was $20. All the complaints were the same: "Wish there were some animals to see"; "Those animals do not look healthy";..... The ride was not making any money. Just costing money in maintenance.
It is now turning a profit, average donation is $50, and the guests are in line to get on the ride.
I added a compost bin for recycling funds. The ring-tailed lemurs have new friends, Tapirs! A baby Black Rhino has been born, as well as a baby Crested Gibbon. Some of the exhibits are big enough to add other animal species to them.
Unhappy Animals=Unhappy Guest=No Money!!!!
This is why when the zoo made it to Csleesburg, she could not do anything. It took almost three hours of my work to make the animals happy this morning.
Admissions: Are now 989 almost 1000 guests!
Admissions Income: $13, 780
Donations: $315,444.00 up from the $258,624 when I opened the zoo!
Drinks/Food: $58,476
Recycling: $72,779 up from $35,284
Shops $34,590
I made the necessary changes to make the animals happy. We are still in the negative as far as cash flow, but the peeps are coming in now!!! I am still deleting water dishes since there were too many animals and the zoo keepers kept placing them--again maintenance that costs money!