Posted by: Frogman Nov. 5 2002, 11:01 AM
duhfur
Zoo Tycoon Master
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I thought it would be nice to have a tips and tricks thread like they do at the lounge. Kinda a thread for newbies to read when you first get the game.
Animals that can have tanks:
Penguin, polar bear (they have toys!)
giant tortise (DD)
hippo
grizzly Bear
siberian tiger
bengal tiger,
white bengal tiger
california sea lion
croc.
plesiosaurus
asian elephant
Note: if you having trouble setting up land and a tank do the third MM tutorial.
This is from terriermom at the ZKL
1. At least in the beginner MM scenarios, there's no time limit! As soon as you meet the requirements, you win!!! Remember in ZT, how even if you hit all the requirements 6 months early, you still had to wait the full 12 or 24 months before you "won" (and in that time, things could change---****coughcoughGUESTHAPPINESScoughcough***), so you wound up losing? MM is NOT like that! When I played the second beginner scenario, I rushed to finish my last exhibit, my last requirement. As soon as I finished the tank and put Orcas in, the game said I won. I didn't
even get the chance to put rocks or foliage in or hire a marine specialist. Pow! I won!
2. If your tanks get murky, it's the marine specialists' job to clean, not the Maintenance people's!
3. With things like tools, animals, research, buildings, etc., you can select whether you want to see ALL items or just ones specific to ZT, DD, or MM.
This becomes important when doing research. You can easily end up doing ALL the research for EVERYTHING--everything from ZT through MM is selected by default with a check mark. To get around this, you need to first select that you want to see ALL research items. You can then unselect the research items you don't want (say the ones that aren't specific for MM) It took me a bit to realize this, and I got annoyed, because I was researching Zookeeper training and ZT animal shelters, when I had no zookeepers and no classic ZT animals!
This is from searain79
1. you can progam your maintence workers to do certain things.
if you only want them to fix DD/ZT fences, or clean up trash cans or fix and maintain the water filters)
2. when putting a ZT animal (polar bear/penguin) in the tank, you need to create a seperate ZT fence for land.
3. you cannot put terrain in the tanks.
4. make sure the filter tanks are not blocked by objects for the maint. workers to fix them. they'll break down.. murkey water.. and you won't be able to put animals in the tank if it is murkey enough.
5. a guests happiness goes down a tiny tiny bit if thrown into tanks. even if they get attacked (and survive) BUT if you put a guest in an ZT or DD exhibit, their happiness goes dooooown really fast.
6. when you put MM animals in the tanks, only put 2 in, or at most, 3.
because, they will eat the food really fast, and then complain about not having any food.
*and i noticed if you try to put two MM keepers in the tank, only 1 will feed, the other one will leave. so if you have, say 3 hungry adult sperm whales... and the feeding only lasts for 2 of them.. ARG
**and plz ppl, keep this section only for tips and tricks. thx.
Multi-species Exhibits.
You can put a shortfin mako, hammerhead and tiger shark in the same exhibit and get 90+ suitability for all of them.
Just for fun, I added a great white, they all smiled but after a while the great white at the mako and hammerheads. He hasn't ate the tiger sharks yet.
None of the dolphins appear to get along.
Walrus and elephant seal smiled when I put them in together, I haven't had time to see if I can make the both suitable together.
Another interesting thing is the mermaid seems to get along with everyone except the sharks. The sharks eat her. I haven't played with suitability here either.
AdamfromCanada
Pooper Scooper
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While they smiled originally, when I put the elephant seal with the walrus I got the message that there were incompatible animals in the exhibit.
One cool thing that you can do with Marine Mania is make large exhibits with two pools on each side or alternatively one pool with two exhibits on each side. I did the first for my walruses and the second for my polar bears. It makes for a really cool looking exhibit (even if it's considered multiple exhibits by the game)
AdamfromCanada
Pooper Scooper
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Something else I've found saves money: Have animals share show tanks. My Orcas and Dolphins have one tank, as do my sea lions and otters. YOU have to make sure to make the tank big enough for all their toys, but it is a lot cheaper than having one show tank for each animal.
Frogman
Moderator
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That's a great idea. I had assumed the game would only make one door for each show tank.
duhfur
Zoo Tycoon Master
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Shark World Scenerio
(Tip from ballaw at ZKL)
That one was actually pretty fun (the shark world). I even found a way to do it for less money! Here's what you do: When you get the lion, make a nice sized exhibit. Then, when you get the elephants, sell the lions, and let the elephants take their exhibit. It will only take a little more altering, since they like relitivly the same thing. They main differencve is the shelter. Anyways, when you get the girrafe, do the same thing! It saves a buch of money.
denuyl
Zoo Guest
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A neat feature of mm is that the marine specialist will swim through a body of water to get to an exhibit, so unlike the zoo keepers scientists and maintenance workers players dont have to worry about making sure that the platforms are accessable by land, however the filters still need to be fixed by the maintenance workers
Alpha Raptor
ZA Novice Designer
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I noticed that animals do tricks in their regular exhibit. I have a screenshot of a Sealion doing a surface spin in it's exhibit and an Orca breaching. My guests also don't get in color-regulated grandstands.
James 24
ZA Novice Designer
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Over crowded exhbits arn't really a problem now. An exhibit I made was
LLWWWWLL
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LLWWWWLL
LLWWWWLL
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That way you have twice the space they treet it as two exhbits, this only works with amphibius animal, I did this with the Hippos
RoamingTigress
Zoo Guest
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Here's another tip - providing you make a big enough enclosure, the mako, tiger and Hammerhead shark will live happily together. They will also eat just about anything - I placed a tiger, an elephant and a polar bear in their enclosure and they ate them!
Czar
Zoo Tycoon Master
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Quote: from AdamfromCanada on 3:33 pm on Oct. 24, 2002
Something else I've found saves money: Have animals share show tanks. My Orcas and Dolphins have one tank, as do my sea lions and otters. YOU have to make sure to make the tank big enough for all their toys, but it is a lot cheaper than having one show tank for each animal.
I made 1 zoo where it had all of the show animals in one BIG show tank. that way the guests dont have to go anywhere when they want to go to another show and it saves A TON of money!!
James 24
ZA Novice Designer
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Also did you know you can create island in the middle of tanks, you have to have one line of normal fence to do this though
Posted by: ShibaNeko Nov. 7 2002, 07:48 PM Here's a tip: Those angry elephant seals are less angry with a tank depth of 4 or more and three ice floes/rafts per 2 seals. Took me forever to figure out what was making them so upset because the ZK info said everything was ok.
Posted by: James 24 Nov. 9 2002, 11:49 AM has anyone ever been able to make islands in their exhibits?
It is possible, You have to create the islands first by making a normal exhbit on the inside part then put a tank wall on the outside, then build the tank as normal and delete all but one of the land walls then you have your island , create extra islands for extra space,
Posted by: Aussie Koala Nov. 9 2002, 12:04 PM Hi James the island sound good, but do the animals like having the island?
How does the zookeeper get there to feed and clean poop - or is it just decorative effect.
Which animals does this come in handy for?
Sorry, maybe I am confused
Posted by: James 24 Nov. 9 2002, 12:10 PM QUOTE (Aussie Koala @ Nov 9 2002, 04:04 PM)
Hi James the island sound good, but do the animals like having the island?
How does the zookeeper get there to feed and clean poop - or is it just decorative effect.
Which animals does this come in handy for?
Sorry, maybe I am confused
Hi,
For zoo keppers you could just put one on the island, or you could have the clean up hack and have a bit of land near the edge,
for which animals this comes handy for it is all the animal which use tanks and land I hope that is the answer you were looking for
Posted by: Aussie Koala Nov. 9 2002, 12:21 PM Yes thanks , I was wanting to know without cheats - and putting a zookeeper on the island answers that, but expensive maybe. OK I have to try it
Posted by: James 24 Nov. 9 2002, 03:24 PM It doesn't have to be expensive, just pick an ordinary one up and let it do its job them remove it
Posted by: Ultimate Fox Nov. 10 2002, 11:23 PM what I do is I create the tank but I leave a path then 6 squares going left and right. i put down paths and i put in observation booths. I then lower the tnanks base and bring up the tanks fence high so the guests can see up and down. They really like it.
Posted by: Loewenfrau Nov. 11 2002, 12:50 AM That sounds like a good idea, UF.
Could you post a sceenshot of it ?
Posted by: AdamfromCanada Nov. 11 2002, 07:28 AM Lately I've been doing something that sound a bit similar with exhibits such as the hippos. I make the path go along next to the land, then drop it down two levels when it reaches the underwater part. It's really just an aesthetic thing, but I think it is cool that people can then see the hippos from an underwater point of view.
Posted by: Tirralay Nov. 11 2002, 12:46 PM I like to sink paths too. My viewing areas are more of a plaza than a path, though, and I prefer to put them between exhibits so that the guests get more out of the sunken space. I usually put in some benches, statues, and maybe a small attraction, like a photo booth or a gift stand. I don't know whether it's true that guests like to go up and down stairs, but they certainly seem to prefer that area of the exhibit to the above-ground viewing areas.
Above-ground tanks just seem precarious to me, I guess -- I know they're not, but seeing a giant tank full of millions of gallons of water looming over my guests is kind of weird. I keep imagining the tank wall cracking and flooding all the guests out of the zoo. It's almost too bad the tank walls don't decay the way normal fences do!
Also, on an unrelated tangent, I noticed today that aquatic dinosaurs can trample underwater foliage. I threw a Deinosuchus into my shark tank to see who would eat whom (they all ignored each other), and after the DS got angry it crushed all my barnacles. It was floating about 5 squares above the foliage when it did it, too. Pretty funny.
Posted by: Ultimate Fox Nov. 11 2002, 05:16 PM i would Loe but I dont know how it's in my screenshots on my computer Tirra, its not like that
Posted by: Frogman Nov. 11 2002, 06:44 PM UF just open the pic in paint and shrink it by grabbing one the blue squares on the corners. Then use the attach button here on the forums. I have see you attach pics before. In fact you started the picture thread.
Posted by: Ultimate Fox Nov. 11 2002, 10:38 PM thats from other sites how do i attach images from my computer not other sites
Posted by: Frogman Nov. 12 2002, 05:23 PM Go into Zoo Tycoon General Discussion. Click on a link. Hit reply. You will see a file attach message on the screen that appears.
Not every forum has the ability to add pics. Only the ones where it would be necassary.
The topics are
Zoo Tycoon General Discussion
APE
Competition
Current Projects
If your pic relates to another topic you will have to upload your pic to a website and either use the hyperlink or image buttons.
Or you can use IMG or URL tags.
Now back to MM tips.... Posted by: PolarBear Nov. 15 2002, 06:46 AM Some Tips I've found to be valuable time savers-
1) Name animals with a "M" or "F" letter before the number, for example,
a. Giraffe M3, Giraffe F1, White Bengal M3, etc. That way if you are making sure that you can breed animals, you can make sure there is a male and female in the bunch. A little work earlier prevents loads of time spent in clicking each animal and determining it's sex.
b. For herds, I've also adopted the practice of having at labeling at least one male and female in the herd (you don't have to do them all, just make sure that at least one is M and the other F) to insure that you have breeders.
2) I tend to name Zookeepers by their exhibit names, such Giraffe ZK, etc. That way when an animal needs attention, you can run for the ZK list button and grab them and stick them in the exhibit in a hurry, lessening the time it takes to find them.
Posted by: Frogman Nov. 15 2002, 04:50 PM I use that exact method with naming my animals. I usually do it for only the fast breeders though.
Posted by: bluegayle Nov. 15 2002, 06:29 PM QUOTE (James 24 @ Nov 9 2002, 07:49 AM)
has anyone ever been able to make islands in their exhibits?
It is possible, You have to create the islands first by making a normal exhbit on the inside part then put a tank wall on the outside, then build the tank as normal and delete all but one of the land walls then you have you island , create extra islands for extra space,
I build a normal exhibit. build a tank wall around it?? When I delete all but one of the land walls it then merges with the tank and I am just left with the normal tank exhibit. What am I doing wrong???
Thanks
Gayle
Posted by: Alpha Raptor Nov. 15 2002, 11:38 PM I've noticed Bengal Tigers eat Harbor Porpoises .
Posted by: Ultimate Fox Nov. 18 2002, 04:27 PM QUOTE (Ultimate Fox @ Nov 11 2002, 03:23 AM)
what I do is I create the tank but I leave a path then 6 squares going left and right. i put down paths and i put in observation booths. I then lower the tnanks base and bring up the tanks fence high so the guests can see up and down. They really like it.
Posted by: Czar Nov. 18 2002, 08:23 PM When I have a huge map like ZT Design's map I like to make the exhibits, and make a little enclosure with some rocks so that the keeper is always right by the exhibit when you need them and not wondering off. It helps with animal happiness with me
Posted by: Zooey Nov. 19 2002, 04:40 PM QUOTE (Czar @ Nov 19 2002, 12:23 AM)
When I have a huge map like ZT Design's map I like to make the exhibits, and make a little enclosure with some rocks so that the keeper is always right by the exhibit when you need them and not wondering off. It helps with animal happiness with me I use them all the time too Works great
Posted by: Czar Nov. 19 2002, 05:57 PM Yeah Im really starting to use it now It works great but you see alot of messages that other keepers cant access certain tanks but except for theat I think it works Great
Posted by: ShibaNeko Nov. 19 2002, 06:25 PM Make sure all keepers are assigned. Unassigned ones will attempt to access the blocked off exhibit, and that's why you get the message.
Posted by: reginasunrae Nov. 22 2002, 02:51 AM I just got MM last night and decided to give it a whirl today!
One thing I found out is that you don't have to have 'tanks' for animals like the walrus and elephant seal. They'll do perfectly fine in a regular old exhibit! I know, I know--who wants to do that boring stuff, right? Well, I was having problems with my elephant seals and their tank. They would just get completely miffed. Finally I said phooey on that noise and made them a huge regular exhibit and threw in a couple of Pacific walruses. The zookeeper said they weren't compatible, but they did just great--in fact, each pair had two offspring last I checked.
I did make a land/tank exhibit for the sea otters because I have them in a show. Talk about a pain! I thought I was never going to get everything lined up right! The reason for that, though, is because I set my show up for three different show species.
The show-tank is sort of a weird inverted 'L' shape. The dolphins are in the back of the show tank, sea otters to the left leg of the 'L' and orcas to the right leg of the 'L'. By designing it this way you can have the specialist running shows frequently and the animals have plenty of time to rest and eat.
Also, did you notice that your show animals' exhibits don't get very good ratings? I'm sure this is because they're performing quite a bit, so since no one has time to really look at them much, sticking their exhibit in the back of the show tank isn't a problem.
Posted by: snowleopard55 Nov. 23 2002, 10:00 PM If you are having trouble with elephant seal happiness, increase the depth of their tank.
For some reason, the zoo keeper doesn't know about this. Maybe because he's not a "Marine Specialist".
They want toys, too. But the depth is essential.
--snowy
Posted by: reginasunrae Nov. 23 2002, 10:17 PM Thanks, Snowy! I read that in another post--good bit of info, too, and will be greatly helpful and much appreciated. Yes, they do want a 'toy', the ice floe. I also discovered that the ice floe can be placed on regular water terrain, which tickled me pink, LOL. It satisfied their need for toys, and made the exhibit quite nice.
As I play more with free-form zoos and read other's tips (I do some of my best learning that way) I'm sure I'll get all the particulars settled on having the combined exhibits, but for now I'm seeing them as a 'why bother?' thing. Sure, realistically it would be really cool to be able to see them swim in the tanks, but at the same time the guests don't really care one way or another.
Posted by: Frogman Nov. 24 2002, 12:12 AM I personally like to use tanks.
One thing I have found is that you can leave all water terrain out of most of their exhibits and still have scores high into the green. It looks better and they still are 100% happy.
Not to mention I am happy.
Posted by: Zooey Nov. 24 2002, 07:29 AM QUOTE (Frogman @ Nov 24 2002, 04:12 AM)
I personally like to use tanks.
One thing I have found is that you can leave all water terrain out of most of their exhibits and still have scores high into the green. It looks better and they still are 100% happy.
Not to mention I am happy.
Their exhibits???
I like to use tanks aswell but the regular water can saves you loads!!!
Posted by: ty2 Nov. 24 2002, 06:11 PM If you think the money Shift and 4 is no good in marine mania think again.
1.first make your exibet to speed time.
2.then use money cheat
3.your tank will get dirty.
4.then empty it.
5. then fill it
And it will be clear again
NOTE: if you have allready made exibet's make holding pen's while doing the cheat
Posted by: reginasunrae Nov. 25 2002, 01:10 AM If anyone knows me they pretty well know I don't use cheats when playing most games. To me that just makes the game that much more fun. I have to do creative thinking to figure out how to 'beat the system'. Sure, my zoos often look like a cluttered up rubble heap, but as long as it's profitable, guests and animals happy, who could really want for more?
If you're running a zoo with only three or four marine exhibits, it's cheaper to replace the filters every three months than to hire a maintenance worker to repair them. Four filters initially cost $800. When they go on the fritz, you get $80 back for each one you sell ($320). Replacing those four filters every three months has a total cost of $480 each time, versus $1200 for one maintenance worker to maintain the filters.
The best money-maker in Marine Mania is no doubt the swim shack. The guests love it! They swim, and they get tired, too, and need some place to rest. No problem! Just stick a restaurant within spitting distance and each of your guests will pay the big bucks to go rest.
I rarely use benches, food stands, restrooms or any buildings other than entertainment and restaurants, ESPECIALLY in scenarios.
This evening I finished up the 'no admission' zoo. I was a little worried about being able to make that $50,000 net profit by the end. I was really surprised when in the last month I looked and it was over $200,000, and that was after I'd gone on a spending spree to pretty up the exhibits beyond win requirements.
Posted by: Penguino Nov. 25 2002, 11:58 PM When placing toys and shelters you now should make sure that they are accesible. They now give a happiness boost to the animals. Or so the files say.
Posted by: winaniw Nov. 26 2002, 02:42 PM Quote: from AdamfromCanada on 3:33 pm on Oct. 24, 2002
Something else I've found saves money: Have animals share show tanks. My Orcas and Dolphins have one tank, as do my sea lions and otters. YOU have to make sure to make the tank big enough for all their toys, but it is a lot cheaper than having one show tank for each animal.
Warning: I did this with Sea otters & a Great White Shark and when the shark was done performing, he somehow swam to the otter exhibit & ate all my otters!!!!
Posted by: Frogman Nov. 26 2002, 02:52 PM Yes it seems otters can't share. Most of the them return properly though.
Posted by: WackyPanda Nov. 28 2002, 09:10 PM When naming your reindeer, whatever you do, DO NOT name any of them Comet. It will rid your zoo completely of dinos and dino eggs.
Posted by: Frogman Nov. 28 2002, 11:12 PM Your right...However that doesn't seem that useful LOL.
Got to love their sense of humor. A COMET wiping out the dinos.
Posted by: Loewenfrau Nov. 29 2002, 01:39 AM well, that's how it was back then
( if you belive in that theorie )
Posted by: Zooey Nov. 29 2002, 03:01 PM QUOTE (WackyPanda @ Nov 29 2002, 01:10 AM)
When naming your reindeer, whatever you do, DO NOT name any of them Comet. It will rid your zoo completely of dinos and dino eggs.
He ... he ...he Adam(from canada) will love this
Posted by: reginasunrae Nov. 29 2002, 05:00 PM Thanks, WP, I didn't know that! Seeing it's getting close to Christmas I may've named reindeer after Santa's and wiped out my entire dino population!!
Posted by: AdamfromCanada Nov. 30 2002, 04:48 AM Hahahaha...My new favourite cheat!!! Of course, that explains why nothing happened when I named my reindeer...No dinos to wipe out...
Posted by: wisco Dec. 1 2002, 08:16 AM QUOTE (snowleopard55 @ Nov 24 2002, 02:00 AM)
If you are having trouble with elephant seal happiness, increase the depth of their tank.
For some reason, the zoo keeper doesn't know about this. Maybe because he's not a "Marine Specialist".
They want toys, too. But the depth is essential.
--snowy
a depth level of 4 (standard ) is good + 1 ice floe/animal
then you should have a happiness between 97-100
Posted by: Oryx Dec. 1 2002, 08:20 PM QUOTE (reginasunrae @ Nov 25 2002, 09:10 AM)
The best money-maker in Marine Mania is no doubt the swim shack. The guests love it! They swim, and they get tired, too, and need some place to rest. No problem! Just stick a restaurant within spitting distance and each of your guests will pay the big bucks to go rest.
The Lobby's Restaurant is great for some quick cash - I had a 10-year, 1000-guest zoo with 7 or 8 Lobbys and all of them were giving an average profit in the thousands - they were doing far better than the swim shack, which the guests eventually lost interest in.
EDIT: Afterthought - I did try, at about 5 or 6 game years adding one of the original ZT Restaurants, just for variety's sake, but the guests did not want to know about it. When I replaced it with a Lobby's (in the exact same location) - the money started rolling in!
Posted by: Aussie Koala Dec. 1 2002, 08:30 PM I find both the Lobby restaurant and the Swim Shack are the best money makers. I install a Swim Shack before a Carousel or Animal Theatre/Dino Cinema now and never use the original restaurants anymore- unless for a decorative effect to have a different building.
Posted by: Czar Dec. 1 2002, 11:08 PM People Never got top my Swim Shacks Its always right by a Orca Show but people just dont go in it......If people do actually swim it is only like 2 or 3 people
Posted by: Penguino Dec. 2 2002, 04:57 AM Yeah the Lobby's restaurant is cheaper to build and cheaper to maintain!
Posted by: Valor3 Dec. 9 2002, 02:03 AM When you unlock things from zoo awards they stay unlocked.My swim shack has about 20 guest swimming at a time .
Posted by: Czar Dec. 12 2002, 07:19 PM He He He Didnt know that this could happen:
Posted by: Penguino Dec. 15 2002, 04:49 AM The walrus prefers the Arctic grass to beach grass.
IGV Values:
Tundra bonus = 2
Aquatic bonus = 0
Arctic Grass = 16 + 2 = 18
Beach Grass = 8 + 0 = 8
Posted by: dol amarth Jan. 1 2003, 09:55 AM If you forgot to put in a tank filter, an easy way to clean the water is to delete a section of tank wall. It will put the animals into boxes. Then refill the tank. Oh, and remember to put in a tank filter this time.
Posted by: Loewenfrau Jan. 1 2003, 11:13 AM that's an clever trick. So you will then only be charged for one new piece of tank wall and get the tank refilled for free ?!
Posted by: dol amarth Jan. 1 2003, 06:24 PM The Yellow Brick Road cheat will not work if the exhibit has animals besides the lion, tiger, and bear.
QUOTE
that's an clever trick.
So you will then only be charged for one new piece of tank wall and get the tank refilled for free ?!
Er.. I guess so. Its quicker than selling off the animals first, haha.
Posted by: katt Jan. 1 2003, 08:27 PM I find that adding a Lobby's restraunt and a place with benches and picnic tables as close as possible to the swim shack really help. Guests are hungry, have to use the bathroom, and are very tired after playing in the water.
My swim shack is always busy.
Posted by: dol amarth Jan. 2 2003, 03:57 PM My top 3 moneymakers are Lobby's Restaurant, Swim Shack, and Carousel. I've just done the Shipwreck zoo scenario and at the end I'd gotten about 20,000 for the restaurant, and.. well I can't remember what i had for swim shack and carousel, i'll check later.
Posted by: Frogman Jan. 2 2003, 04:05 PM Your guests use the picnic table as a place to rest even with no food from a stand to eat?!?!
I'll have to try that.
Posted by: katt Jan. 2 2003, 11:36 PM Yes they come out of the swim shack and head straight for the tables. I guess they are really tired after all that swimming. some will come out and head for the restraunt. Untill I put in the tables I would have tones of tired guests and they would all be at the shack.
Posted by: Valor3 Jan. 5 2003, 01:56 AM Do not use Mermaids in zoos. their singing is very annoying.
Posted by: Aussie Koala Jan. 5 2003, 05:47 AM QUOTE (Valor3 @ Jan 5 2003, 03:26 PM)
Do not use Mermaids in zoos. their singing is very annoying.
This is so true
Posted by: Snicklfritz Jan. 5 2003, 06:07 AM I don't know if I solved the "tank wall "break" to Land exhibit" (someone complained that the tank wall does not blend in properly with the land exhibit for amphibious animals)....but heres an illusion to compensate (I used the mm railing and the non see through tank wall to create a "dike effect")
hope this tip helps to beautify thy zoo:
Posted by: dol amarth Jan. 6 2003, 04:06 PM QUOTE (Aussie Koala @ Jan 5 2003, 03:47 AM)
QUOTE (Valor3 @ Jan 5 2003, 03:26 PM)
Do not use Mermaids in zoos. their singing is very annoying.
This is so true
it doesn't annoy me.. i like it!
Posted by: Aussie Koala Jan. 6 2003, 04:25 PM Thats great you like it dol amarth Im sure a lot of people do
Posted by: Frogman Jan. 6 2003, 05:56 PM I don't think it is that bad. However I don't usually play with the sound on as I listen to music- so maybe the fact I don't hear it often is why I don't mind.
Posted by: FoxGuy Feb. 7 2003, 10:21 AM I only started using the mermaids after getting the show hack from ZT Design......the zoo guest eat that show right up!
$CHA-CHING$
Posted by: txjaman Feb. 19 2003, 04:01 PM I have not seen it on this site but a big money maker in my zoo is renaming an exhibit Blue Fang. I haven't got the precise numbers but my income from concesions just about doubled after doing this. I have 5 resteraunts 3 carsouls, 2 animal theatres and a dinosaur theatre. My concessions went from 28,000 per month to around 53,000 per month. I don't know if anyone else has seen or tried this but it seems to work for me to make the extra cash. My zoo has been around for 11 years (1000 guests, all ZT original and DD animals displayed). I have 25 ZK, 11 Scientist and 1 maintenance man (which I rename Bob V at least 2 -3 times a month to fix the fences). I renamed an exhibit Blue Fang around the 6 year. I have just started to work on adding in the MM animals to my zoo and the renaming is still bringing in the extra cash.
I added this reply to this topic since I had seen a remarkable difference in concessions. I have had it confirmed by a friend of mine. When others confirm I will edit this reply again to say whether or not this really works.
Posted by: Jane Feb. 21 2003, 06:52 AM Sorry if this aint right place for pic.tips, but here is a way to save space
Posted by: Loewenfrau Feb. 21 2003, 07:06 AM wow , this is really cool and clever !!
I haven't received your entry for the feb contest yet !!
Posted by: Crookshankz227 Sep. 30 2003, 02:47 AM You can mix the following animals at suitibility 100:
manatee:dolphin
sperm whale:humpback whale
Posted by: Eagle One Sep. 30 2003, 07:24 PM thanks for the tip i am going to try this
Posted by: Xtreme Oct. 6 2003, 12:35 PM If you assign a zookeeper to two different exhibits, make sure the exhibit gates are as close together as possible.
Here's why:
Let's say you have a zookeeper assigned to the Bengal Tiger exhibit and the Llama exhibit. If the zookeeper is in the Llama exhibit and a Bengal Tiger gets sick, the zookeeper can get to the Bengal Tiger quickly.
Posted by: orca master Mar. 17 2004, 02:44 PM Yes do that with dino scientist and marine specilist to... If you do this and they all have an average exibit with an average amout of animals the marine specilist can handle four exibits,the zoo keeper three and the dino scientist two.
Posted by: MrMan Apr. 6 2004, 05:32 PM How do you make terrain neautral habitat? I want to make my animals not care what items or terrain you put in their exhibit. I know its off topic, but this is a hot topic and im pretty sure someone will answer.
Posted by: Penguino Apr. 7 2004, 08:10 AM Yes, it is a very hot topic indeed, but that is no reason for it to be posted all over the forum. If you want answers, keep your questions in one place; it'll make it easier for you to look for them.
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Posted by: Czar Dec. 1 2002, 11:08 PM
People Never got to my Swim Shacks Its always right by a Orca Show but people just dont go in it......If people do actually swim it is only like 2 or 3 people
I had problems with people not going into my on-water buildings, Swim Shacks included. Then I figured out that I was making the approaches too long: guests will cross one square of path across the water to reach a building, but not two. (I'd been putting a two-square "dock" of boardwalk that led to the buildings because it looks nice.) After I shortened the walkways a bit, people trooped on into my Swim Shacks, dolphin rides, and boat rental places by the dozens!
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