Could use some help with stress issues.
- Thread starter Wistala
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Yeah I realised, might rebuild both bridges with that in mind. However, another post mentioned that the new glass that came with the new update apparently is one-way glass. So I might try those first, if that doesn't work it might be best to rebuild the bridges. Atm I have the bridge blocked off so the guests can't see, lol which seems to work. I am however getting some problems with the fence constantly breaking spite a mechanic showing fixing it before it breaks. Might be an annoying bug.
P.S. Not native English speaking, so might as well be me not understanding what you meant, so yeah don't sweat it
I am not sure if what I am saying is being missed, if it is a translation issue or what but I will quote myself to point out where I said to use the very same type of glass.
Wait, what?! That might explain why people aren't watching my jaguars through the tunnel I made of that glass. Thanks for the hint, got to check that...
Lol you are welcome. They seem to be the same on both sides tho, at least I can't seem to find a difference.Wait, what?! That might explain why people aren't watching my jaguars through the tunnel I made of that glass. Thanks for the hint, got to check that...
Are they one-way? It doesn't seem like it in the way I'm using them.
In any case, the stress issues in this game drive me up the wall. Thankfully I play in Sandbox where such things can be ignored easily, but animals that in real zoos are far from shy (springbok and nyala come to mind) seem to get stressed more often than those that are shy (such as the Chinese pangolin).
I am not sure. I tried them and they seem to have some effect, they get WAY less stressed now, but I don't know. I play on hard difficulty and I think they get a bit too easily stressed considering the flamingos are neutral with humans. I mean you can even walk into their habitat, yet they get stressed when people look at them, lol.
Granted there are a lot of people looking at them, but still. Could understand the problem is they had been shy towards humans.
15. According to the Zoopedia they'll be happy with 300
I think it's 500! How many keepers would you need for that!? haha15. According to the Zoopedia they'll be happy with 300
Depends if they do their job or not XD Think I got 2 here, lol.
I did a flamingo breeding project as part of my contribution to the Asian animal breeding community challenge for franchise mode.
I established a private mating habitat and three rather sizable public habitats and set up some initial breeding pairs. Then as the babies reached adulthood I moved them to the private habitat to mate / pair with pre-selected genetically diverse stock. I carefully set up new pairs from each offspring and new blood brought from out of the zoo to avoid inbred offspring.
It was a lot of work but I now have 3 thriving colonies each with over 20 adult members each and they continue to grow despite putting offspring back on the market to avoid a genetics bottleneck. The population size now has gotten large enough that I believe as long as I am careful about it I should have enough diverse genetics to not need any more new animals brought in. Not sure yet but so far it looks promising for my sustainability, and in fact I have been contributing back to the market for a while. I have already bred I believe 46 unique animals which I consider to be a success.
From personal experience with the three public habitats I would say the cause of your flamingos' stress is a specific action by some guests. There is a taunt emote that some guests do where they dance back and forth silly while flapping their hands. I noticed that my own flamingos were fine being observed normally and with pretty much any other behavior by the guests, but the moment a guest did this action they would become stressed.
Only two suggestions I have for you are the "Do not disturb the animals" security signs and one way glass. Fair warning, even with these changes my animals still sometimes register a brief stress spike, but it does not seem to be as elevated or long lasting.
I established a private mating habitat and three rather sizable public habitats and set up some initial breeding pairs. Then as the babies reached adulthood I moved them to the private habitat to mate / pair with pre-selected genetically diverse stock. I carefully set up new pairs from each offspring and new blood brought from out of the zoo to avoid inbred offspring.
It was a lot of work but I now have 3 thriving colonies each with over 20 adult members each and they continue to grow despite putting offspring back on the market to avoid a genetics bottleneck. The population size now has gotten large enough that I believe as long as I am careful about it I should have enough diverse genetics to not need any more new animals brought in. Not sure yet but so far it looks promising for my sustainability, and in fact I have been contributing back to the market for a while. I have already bred I believe 46 unique animals which I consider to be a success.
From personal experience with the three public habitats I would say the cause of your flamingos' stress is a specific action by some guests. There is a taunt emote that some guests do where they dance back and forth silly while flapping their hands. I noticed that my own flamingos were fine being observed normally and with pretty much any other behavior by the guests, but the moment a guest did this action they would become stressed.
Only two suggestions I have for you are the "Do not disturb the animals" security signs and one way glass. Fair warning, even with these changes my animals still sometimes register a brief stress spike, but it does not seem to be as elevated or long lasting.
I did not know about that emote. I do have the sign you speak of placed, it has helped and I tried the one-way glass but not sure it works. It has done SOMETHING so I assume it does, but atm I do get brief stress spike like you. I'll try and watch for that emote since I have noticed that some guests walks outside the bridge boundary and stand in the air.