Announcements since Latest Patch

[Boldson]

Since the latest patch has anyone had lots of announcements. I have has lots saying my speakers are in the wrong place etc. This is appearing on Career mode Godwin House. I def did not have this before.

Before I report has anyone already reported this

Thanks

 

[Jaggid Edje]

Other people have also indicated they are seeing this. I think it's a new message, not a new bug.. as in the speakers weren't appropriately placed before but now you're being told about it.

Education, both speakers and the screens, need to be a certain minimum distance from the bottom of a habitat barrier and the game now alerts you when this condition is not met.

 

[Bo Marit]

We did add more alerts to make players aware what exactly is going wrong in their zoos, perhaps this is what you're experiencing?

 

[Kyriel]

So.. what is the distance education items need to be from the barrier? I've been tearing my hair out over my low education score when I've placed a ton of speakers, exhibit, habitat, and conservation boards. After yesterday's update I got a bunch of alerts about education items but the alert is non specific and I couldn't figure out what was going on. This is likely my problem.

Edited for spelling.

 

[Bo Marit]

So.. what is the distance education items need to be from the barrier? I've been tearing my hair out over my low education score when I've placed a ton of speakers, exhibit, habitat, and conservation boards. After yesterday's update I got a bunch of alerts about education items but the alert is non specific and I couldn't figure out what was going on. This is likely my problem.

Edited for spelling.

Are you using the Heatmaps (H)? Can you post a screenshot so we can check please?

 

[Jaggid Edje]

So.. what is the distance education items need to be from the barrier? I've been tearing my hair out over my low education score when I've placed a ton of speakers, exhibit, habitat, and conservation boards. After yesterday's update I got a bunch of alerts about education items but the alert is non specific and I couldn't figure out what was going on. This is likely my problem.

Edited for spelling.

I don't actually know the exact distance, but I've had it be "too far" when a speaker was on the far side a viewing area that was about 12m in diameter, so it's probably somewhere around 10-15 m. I just use the education heatmap when it's too far away and move it closer until it changes color from red to blue in the heat map.

 

[Dr4gon]

People stay the longest close to the barrier to see the animals. Just make sure you have the barrier covered with the speeches of the speakers, and don't overlap and have the animals in mind. They don't need the education and consider it a bunch of blahblah noise.

 

[Kyriel]

Are you using the Heatmaps (H)? Can you post a screenshot so we can check please?

I replaced everything last night and the issue is resolved for most of them. The ones that aren't resolved are on an elevated walkway that is probably too far above the base of the enclosure. It's a learning experience .

 

[Jaggid Edje]

I replaced everything last night and the issue is resolved for most of them. The ones that aren't resolved are on an elevated walkway that is probably too far above the base of the enclosure. It's a learning experience .

I went through all of my zoos one at a time yesterday, mainly to set the animal aging speed slower in each of them, and I had the same experience.

Education on many of my elevated paths that passed through habitats needed to be adjusted. What I found was that if it was 2 flights of stairs up, the education panels needed to be lowered to just the width of a zoo-pedia frame above the walkway. Any higher than 2 flights of stairs you'd be unable to use education displays at all. My understanding is that this is not a change in the patch, but rather that the game now actually alerts you if there's a problem with the education whereas it did not before.....It's shocking how many of my education displays in one of my zoos needed to be adjusted (it was 35 in my largest Savannah zoo).