About to mature alerts...

[Cocolori]

So this might be something that is already implemented but that I can't find at the moment. I would like to turn off the 'x animal is about to mature'. I'l like to still get the 'x animal HAS matured' notification but dump the about to mature one.

Basically my franchise zoo is now large enough that I've chosen to slow down animal ageing more to give myself a bit of a break from constant population management. Unfortunately that seems to mean that I get constant alerts a long time before an animal actually matures. I know they are there to help me get over there and remove the animal before injury but because they are so frequent I completely ignore them anyway and just pause and click the has matured notification which allows me to get there before fighting breaks out 98% of the time anyway.

I've played around with the notification settings and I seem to be able to turn off all the useful alerts but not the one that I find the least useful. I may have missed it somewhere!

In particular I'd like to get rid of it because quite often I like to follow a guest round or ride my transport rides or otherwise get myself immersed in my zoo at the ground level and then I hear the little notification noise and I have no idea if it is actually something I need to manage or it's just telling me in 10 real lifer minutes my elephant is going to grow up for the 20th time. It's getting me a bit exasperated so I'd love to hear if there is a solution currently or suggest it might be an easy fix if not. Even just adding a different alert noise for the pre-emptive notifications would let me know when I can ignore them - I think it may even be a slightly different noise but the about to mature is actually more obtrusive than the 'has matured' one.

 

[iloveyourzoos]

Love this idea and would also love to be able to set alerts differently for each species and/or habitat/exhibit, and possibly even by gender. After all, maturation/birth may be much more important for animals that fight, than those who can handle a different balance, and in herd animals or those with different alpha rules, the maturation of a male can be very different than the maturation of a female (or vice-versa). I found a place where you can turn on/off notifications by habitat species (but not exhibit), but like you find that the categories are too broad, containing both things I do desperately need to know, mixed in the same setting as aspects I don't.

I enjoy the management side of this game quite a bit, and think that being able to set each notification separately would add a lot. I can't imagine that a real zoo manager or franchise owner wants, needs, or receives the same level of detail about her beetles or peafowl as she does about her prized lions, for example.

I've also found that very often for me, the more important alert will actually get buried underneath less important ones. As in, the "has matured" flashes for only a second before being replaced by a "is about to mature", which then stays on the screen much longer.

My work-around has been to keep the timeline pulled up most of the time, since it tends to focus on the more important aspects (for me at least). But of course that means I lose a fair portion of my screen, and can't enjoy as much the wide angle beauty of my zoos (not that I'm a master builder, but I do try). So being able to manage those alerts more specifically in the way I set them up would help me both on the management side, and the beauty appreciation side.

 

[Roxxsmom]

I tend to ignore that message, and to my peril. I get caught up with managing something else in the game, and suddenly my litter of lions is fighting or my lemurs are inbreeding.

The one that bugs me is the "animal is about to inbreed" notice, that even when playing at normal game speed, comes when the animal has already done the deed with her dad. Even if I hit pause the second I get that notice and immediately click out of camera mode (because it always bogs you down by putting you in the zoomed in camera view of the animals getting snuggly) and remove the animal to the trade center, she's already pregnant with her own younger half sibling. It would be nice if they'd give you at least a few seconds to get the animal out of the enclosure.