Franchise Community Challenge Discussion

[Jamiefrog]

What do you (asking everyone) consider a reasonably priced giant panda? Because I generally forget to lower the prices from the game generated ones so my pandas usually sell at about 1300-1500 cc if I remember correctly - is that considered too much? Should I make more of an effort to remember to lower the price?

I'm also pretty bad at checking the prices when buying animals because I have so much cc that it really doesn't matter to me (and make more faster than I spend it). So I'm probably part of the problem in "encouraging" high prices, sorry haha.

 

[tigertimb]

What do you (asking everyone) consider a reasonably priced giant panda? Because I generally forget to lower the prices from the game generated ones so my pandas usually sell at about 1300-1500 cc if I remember correctly - is that considered too much? Should I make more of an effort to remember to lower the price?

I'm also pretty bad at checking the prices when buying animals because I have so much cc that it really doesn't matter to me (and make more faster than I spend it). So I'm probably part of the problem in "encouraging" high prices, sorry haha.

I'm quite happy with the game generated prices, which might well mean 1500 for an animal with excellent stats
A bit more to reward effort breeding good animals doesn't seem excessive either but over 3000 just seems robbery to me and they often just sit annoying flooding the trade centre and not selling either

If you do sell them for less to be generous, there's every chance someone will buy them and put them back on the market for way more
Not sure I see the point of playing a zoo game and then playing as a trader, but we're stuck as is without some features to restrict such practices
A simple rule that you can't sell an animal for more than you paid for it, seems an easy solution?

 

[Jamiefrog]

I'm quite happy with the game generated prices, which might well mean 1500 for an animal with excellent stats
A bit more to reward effort breeding good animals doesn't seem excessive either but over 3000 just seems robbery to me and they often just sit annoying flooding the trade centre and not selling either

If you do sell them for less to be generous, there's every chance someone will buy them and put them back on the market for way more
Not sure I see the point of playing a zoo game and then playing as a trader, but we're stuck as is without some features to restrict such practices
A simple rule that you can't sell an animal for more than you paid for it, seems an easy solution?

I do sometimes see a wall of albino pandas for 10K each sitting in trades and just taking up space until time runs out. I never buy albinos because they're not to my taste (I still wonder sometimes why Planet Zoo went with albino giant pandas but didn't add the more known brown version?).

Oh yes I very often see my animals of different species being re-sold by other players. I've never in the years I've played raised prices when selling animals. From day one (started playing around Africa pack release) I've sold everything for the game generated prices or less - just wanting to help the market out. And I guess people like to try to earn some easy cc by buying my animals and selling them for sometimes thousands more cc. It does confuse me a little because in my mind it's so easy to earn cc anyway but I assume it's someone who desperately needs more cc fast for some reason?
I keep my own prices down because I'd like newer players (or poor players for that matter ) to have a chance at buying some good animals too. I remember being stuck with ostriches, warthogs and peacocks for quite some time before getting enough cc to buy some other stuff in the very beginning.
So that bothers me a tiny bit when someone buys (as an example) a capuchin from me for 124 cc and then sell it for 7,500 cc - there is no way a newer player can afford that. But I also try to be understanding that the person in question seems desperate for cc to do something like that. Luckily they're usually kind and keep my suffix on when re-selling so I don't even have to bother checking those animals out if I'm looking to buy myself.

 

[Xrystal]

What do you (asking everyone) consider a reasonably priced giant panda? Because I generally forget to lower the prices from the game generated ones so my pandas usually sell at about 1300-1500 cc if I remember correctly - is that considered too much? Should I make more of an effort to remember to lower the price?

I'm also pretty bad at checking the prices when buying animals because I have so much cc that it really doesn't matter to me (and make more faster than I spend it). So I'm probably part of the problem in "encouraging" high prices, sorry haha.

I usually stop at 5k when buying from players. I don't think default prices hit beyond that number. And buying 1 at that price and then selling it's offspring for regular prices will still give me a profit if I need to build up my credits. At the moment my credits are reasonably good, thanks to my many trades and releases over the years. I don't usually sell for more than the default prices unless the stats are almost maxed out. But even then not much of an increase, usually a slight rounding up. For example: Changing 1029 to 1100.

Like you, I remember the days of struggling to build up those CCs to get the good animals so try to trade out as much as possible and even if they raise the prices reasonably for resale I don't mind, I just don't like the hiked up prices.

 

[Xrystal]

Well, I was hoping to get to the gold podium in the last few hours but .. missed the window rofl. Hopefully the silver podium stuck and I get 2 animals to refill my gifted animals storage rofl.


Anyway .. the next challenge is up ... so for those that want to prepare before it starts ( you know its most of us by now )

Next Community Challenge​

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This weeks' community challenge is focused on releasing 3* Endangered Animals. One of the many groups that is worth learning more about and finding ways to help. Good luck Zookeepers!

These are the Endangered and Critically Endangered animals ( including the exhibit animals as the site isn't too easy to filter per in game display - I didn't forget to try .. honest rofl ) . In case it doesn't show the file names to you guys ... the larger list is the endangered list.

I'll do an in game enrichment compatibility list shortly Hopefully not too big a list though considering the animal count.

Don't forget that the last DLC animals might not be included in the challenge, it all depends on if they have added them to the challenge lists.

The websites list isn't in agreement with the game in some regards. So, here is a list of the in game habitat animals along with the DLCs the website says they were in ( hopefully more correct than their statuses rofl ) . Quite a few base game animals here so even if you are new to the game, there's quite a selection you may be able to dig into for the challenge.

Endangered	DLC	Critically Endangered	DLC
African Savannah Elephant	Base	Addax	Arid
African Spurred Tortoise	Zookeeper	African Penguin	Africa
African Wild Dog	Base	Amur Leopard	Conservation
Baird's Tapir	Base	Black Rhinoceros	Arid
Bengal Tiger	Base	Black and White Ruffed Lemur	Anniversary
Bonobo	Base	Bornean Orangutan	Base
Bornean Elephant	Asia	Chinese Pangolin	Base
Dhole	South East Asia	Coquerel's Sifaka	Zookeeper
Giant Otter	Aquatic	Dama Gazelle	Arid
Indian Elephant	Base	Gharial	Base
Komodo Dragon	Deluxe	Himalyan Brown Bear	Base
Lar Gibbon	Tropical	Red Ruffed Lemur	Base
Lion-Tailed Macaque	Asia	Somali Wild Ass	Arid
Malayan Tapir	South East Asia	West African Lion	Base
Nile Lechwe	Wetlands	Western Chimpanzee	Base
Okapi	Base	Western Lowland Gorilla	Base
Proboscis Monkey	South East Asia
Przewalski's Horse	Conservation
Pygmy Hippopotamus	Deluxe
Red Panda	Base
Reticulated Giraffe	Base
Ring Tailed Lemur	Base
Scimitar-Horned Oryx	Conservation
Siamang	Conservation
Siberian Tiger	Base
Tasmanian Devil	Oceania
Wild Water Buffalo	Wetlands

 

[Xrystal]

Enrichment Compatibility

Addax	Dama Gazelle	Somali Wild Ass
African Spurred Tortoise	Dama Gazelle
Black and White Ruffled Lemur	Coquerel's Sifaka	Red Ruffed Lemur	Ring Tailed Lemur
Bornean Elephant	Bornean Orangutan	Proboscis Monkey
Bornean Orangutan	Bornean Elephant	Lar Gibbon	Malayan Tapir	Siamang
Coquerel's Sifaka	Black and White Ruffled Lemur	Red Ruffed Lemur	Ring Tailed Lemur
Dama Gazelle	Addax	African Spurred Tortoise	Scimitar Horned Oryx
Indian Elephant	Malayan Tapir	Proboscis Monkey
Lar Gibbon	Bornean Orangutan	Siamang
Malayan Tapir	Bornean Orangutan	Indian Elephant	Proboscis Monkey	Wild Water Buffalo
Nile Lechwe	Reticulated Giraffe
Proboscis Monkey	Bornean Elephant	Indian Elephant	Malayan Tapir
Red Ruffed Lemur	Black and White Ruffled Lemur	Coquerel's Sifaka	Ring Tailed Lemur
Reticulated Giraffe	Nile Lechwe	Scimitar Horned Oryx
Ring Tailed Lemur	Black and White Ruffled Lemur	Coquerel's Sifaka	Red Ruffed Lemur
Scimitar Horned Oryx	Dama Gazelle	Reticulated Giraffe
Siamang	Bornean Orangutan	Lar Gibbon
Somali Wild Ass	Addax
Wild Water Buffalo	Malayan Tapir

Out of this list the following seem to be good options for a minimal zoo with lots of potential. I've included the common continent/biome to aid in design ideas.

Africa	Desert	Addax	Dama Gazelle
Africa	Grassland	Nile Lechwe	Reticulated Giraffe
Africa	Tropical	Black and White Ruffled Lemur	Coquerel's Sifaka	Red Ruffed Lemur	Ring Tailed Lemur
Asia	Tropical	Lar Gibbon	Bornean Orangutan	Siamang
Asia	Tropical, Aquatic	Indian Elephant	Malayan Tapir	Proboscis Monkey

 

[Jamiefrog]

Looking at those pictures shows that the website isn't well updated on the zoopedia stuff? African Penguin is on the critical list in game now (reflecting the change IRL), I see that for example the African elephant is missing on the endangered list, and what is the Tamworth pig doing on these? xD
On the critical list picture I also see stuff like Aardvark and ASCO that doesn't belong. Feels like someone should look over the website zoopedia and make sure things are correct...

But anyway! I actually have an "Endangered" zoo already from the last time this challenge was active so this should give me an opportunity to expand that one and try to improve it a bit.

 

[Xrystal]

Looking at those pictures shows that the website isn't well updated on the zoopedia stuff? African Penguin is on the critical list in game now (reflecting the change IRL), I see that for example the African elephant is missing on the endangered list, and what is the Tamworth pig doing on these? xD
On the critical list picture I also see stuff like Aardvark and ASCO that doesn't belong. Feels like someone should look over the website zoopedia and make sure things are correct...

But anyway! I actually have an "Endangered" zoo already from the last time this challenge was active so this should give me an opportunity to expand that one and try to improve it a bit.

Yeah, I noticed the site seems different from the game .. but it's a quick and dirty way of preparing without going in game and then make last minute preparation once you get in game and see the differences. I'll assume the in game assignments will be the relevant factor.

I'll definitely go through the in game list again and update the post with the animals that are on the site list and not the in game list and vice versa.
Scratch that, went with a new list with the DLC the animal is in so people can decide based on the DLCs they have, or use it to choose the DLC they get next

 

[Xrystal]

Looks at group habitat selection ... yep, formula one racetrack unlocked

Initial Layout Design. It's probably larger than it will be but the general areas are there. It all depends on the maximum area the animals will need for their habitats.

Addax - Shy
Nile Lechwe - Shy
Coquerel's Sifaka - Neutral
Malayan Tapir - Neutral
Primates - Confident
Because of the abundance of shy or practically shy animals I may be consistent and have closed walls all the way through with just the safari ride giving the guests access to the animals. It will hopefully ensure the animals have a more comfortable stay and as little stress as possible.

Edit:
2nd image is the entrance view point with the barriers, water and race track set up Unfortunately it ate into a 20k loan, which prompted a 50k loan to pay that one off to buy some staff buildings and my initial money makers the info stalls near the entrance.

Hopefully I'll be able to slowly introduce a small group of animals to each habitat and expand as money permits. The habitats are large enough to fit the full complement of the respective animals based on their pairing system .. single pair for monogamous, full harem for polygamous animals. And of course their respective babies.

Fingers crossed I don't go bankcrupt and have to start over. We all know that will happen anyway, but thought I would hope for the best rofl.

 

[bethaynee]

Do we think it's solely endangered animals or will critically endangered animals count? Don't know whether to include them in my zoo

 

[Xrystal]

Do we think it's solely endangered animals or will critically endangered animals count? Don't know whether to include them in my zoo

Hard to say. Sometimes they are specific and sometimes they are a bit lax. I separated the lists just in case people wanted to concentrate I've erred on the side that they are levels of endangered. It's just whether they are checking for more than or equals the number level or contains the word