It's only two days left of the challenge and we are hardly half way there! We need more Elephants!
I know that one big problem is that there are so few female elephants on the market, and the people that are buying Frontier elephants and then reselling them for x10 the price doesn't exactly help and it makes me so damn mad. How greedy can people get!?! Are they that lazy that they can't earn CC in a honest way and are forced to scam people?? The only thing this does is discouraging people to participate in the challenge and increase the risk of it failing (tip: if you have a hard time earning CC, just breed African Buffalos and sell the males).
Another problem that people can get with this challenge is that Elephants are pretty expencive to feed and if you have to many of them you zoo can start to loose money pretty quickly (I had this problem at the start of the challenge)
One tip if you have this issue;
Start a new zoo, build a big habitat (around 15k m2) with a lake in it, get all the necessary staff facilitys (including water treatment, don't forget about that!) and one of each staff (two zookeepers), but skip the guard (cus they are useless). Then start slow with just two-three elephants (preferably one male and two females) and wait until you have researched them to full (and get your zookeepers to about 3 stars). The researching is optional but it will help with breeding, wich makes you less dependent on the market. After this is done, buy everything you need to make your Elephants happy (enrichement items etc).
Then just go ham! Get a big herd of Elephants and set the timer to x3. Then go do household stuff or whatever you want and check in on the zoo once every 10min or so. As soon as an Elephant have gotten three stars, release it and replace it with a new one (or wait for the babys to grow up).
Money doesn't matter at all. As long as you get everything your Elephants need at the start you don't need any money to buy new stuff. I've done this over the last few days and have been able to release over 100 Elephants
(the money flow is minus 5mill, but like I said, it doesn't matter)
I know that one big problem is that there are so few female elephants on the market, and the people that are buying Frontier elephants and then reselling them for x10 the price doesn't exactly help and it makes me so damn mad. How greedy can people get!?! Are they that lazy that they can't earn CC in a honest way and are forced to scam people?? The only thing this does is discouraging people to participate in the challenge and increase the risk of it failing (tip: if you have a hard time earning CC, just breed African Buffalos and sell the males).
Another problem that people can get with this challenge is that Elephants are pretty expencive to feed and if you have to many of them you zoo can start to loose money pretty quickly (I had this problem at the start of the challenge)
One tip if you have this issue;
Start a new zoo, build a big habitat (around 15k m2) with a lake in it, get all the necessary staff facilitys (including water treatment, don't forget about that!) and one of each staff (two zookeepers), but skip the guard (cus they are useless). Then start slow with just two-three elephants (preferably one male and two females) and wait until you have researched them to full (and get your zookeepers to about 3 stars). The researching is optional but it will help with breeding, wich makes you less dependent on the market. After this is done, buy everything you need to make your Elephants happy (enrichement items etc).
Then just go ham! Get a big herd of Elephants and set the timer to x3. Then go do household stuff or whatever you want and check in on the zoo once every 10min or so. As soon as an Elephant have gotten three stars, release it and replace it with a new one (or wait for the babys to grow up).
Money doesn't matter at all. As long as you get everything your Elephants need at the start you don't need any money to buy new stuff. I've done this over the last few days and have been able to release over 100 Elephants
(the money flow is minus 5mill, but like I said, it doesn't matter)
