Food for thought and mouths to feed

[Jileha]

I just reported this officially as a bug.

• Click on the habitat gate and open the animal tab. Look at the food costs. Looks OK, right?, since Frontier told us they changed it to show the total cost of feeding all animals in the habitat. Although the giant pandas eat like kings and queens, even at food level 1! I even grow my own bamboo for them!
• Now click on the finance tab, where you will find the total cost for that year. This can be for one or two feedings, depending on the keeper’s schedule. Still looks OK.
• Now go back to the animal tab. The food cost has changed, now it’s the cost of one feed per animal. This still adds up more or less to the amount on the finance tab.
• Now the big problem: On the animal tab, you see both your animals in the zoo and in the trade center. And guess what, you are feeding those as well! When you only see the total feeding cost, there is no way of telling what’s going on. But if you see the costs per animal, it becomes obvious that we are feeding more mouths than we should!

This seems to affect only animals that were at one stage in your zoo. So you’re not feeding new animals bought in the trade center that were never in your habitat.

The same bug but might be involved when checking potential mates: If you put one animal in the trade center and compare mates, its name shows up twice. In the case I just had, a pangolin female showed up twice, one of her copies marked as “reduced fertility”, the other not. But it was definitely the same animal still counting as being present in the habitat.

 

[Jaggid Edje]

I noticed the whole "feeding animals in the trade center" cost on the food cost display of a habitat a few weeks ago, but it seemed to only be a display issue because it went back to normal again at some point and my food costs, as reported in the annual finance screen, went down substantially when I moved some of my costlier-to-feed animals to the trade center; it just seemed to take a bit of time before the game officially stopped making them part of the feeding costs (i.e. it didn't happen the instant I moved them).

I get that duplicate animal in the potential mates screen all the time...and it's annoying because the same animal doesn't even show the same genes.

Do you have a link for your issue tracker? I'll "me too" it if you can link it.

 

[P3NGU1N]

I've noticed the UI glitch on feeding costs before too.

Feeding costs for animals in the trade center is a tough one because it might not actually be a bug. An animal that is moved from a habitat to the trade center is still listed under the animal tab in the habitat information panel. Could be something brought in to try and discourage players from hoarding animals in Franchise mode. Can't say it would be effective since those players would have a massive stock pile of both cash and CC in their franchise zoo.

Do you have a link for your issue tracker? I'll "me too" it if you can link it.

I'm gonna guess it's this one https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/11437

 

[Jileha]

I'm gonna guess it's this one https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/11437

Yes, that’s it!

 

[Jaggid Edje]

I me too'd it.

 

[Moosegun]

I just reported this officially as a bug.

• Click on the habitat gate and open the animal tab. Look at the food costs. Looks OK, right?, since Frontier told us they changed it to show the total cost of feeding all animals in the habitat. Although the giant pandas eat like kings and queens, even at food level 1! I even grow my own bamboo for them!
• Now click on the finance tab, where you will find the total cost for that year. This can be for one or two feedings, depending on the keeper’s schedule. Still looks OK.
• Now go back to the animal tab. The food cost has changed, now it’s the cost of one feed per animal. This still adds up more or less to the amount on the finance tab.
• Now the big problem: On the animal tab, you see both your animals in the zoo and in the trade center. And guess what, you are feeding those as well! When you only see the total feeding cost, there is no way of telling what’s going on. But if you see the costs per animal, it becomes obvious that we are feeding more mouths than we should!

This seems to affect only animals that were at one stage in your zoo. So you’re not feeding new animals bought in the trade center that were never in your habitat.

The same bug but might be involved when checking potential mates: If you put one animal in the trade center and compare mates, its name shows up twice. In the case I just had, a pangolin female showed up twice, one of her copies marked as “reduced fertility”, the other not. But it was definitely the same animal still counting as being present in the habitat.

First up, Panda are the most expensive animals to keep in captivity according to the Guiness book of Records.

I REALLY dont think that animals in your trade centre are contributing to feeding costs, infact pretty much 100% sure they dont. Taking into account that the information on the animal tab is generally wrong and has been since launch (I never pay an attention to it). What i do know is that when I have excess animals, that i move to the trade centre my food cost drops year on year. For example recently i removed 6 adult lions and saw a significant drop in my food cost, both in the year on year and habitat cost. This happens every time I remove animals to save costs, regardless of if I sell them or store them.

Whilst I agree 100% that the information on the animal feeding dialogue is broken, not sure I have seen any evidence at all it is anything other than cosmetic.

 

[Jaggid Edje]

Whilst I agree 100% that the information on the animal feeding dialogue is broken, not sure I have seen any evidence at all it is anything other than cosmetic.

Yeah, that's been my takeaway as well...that it is only cosmetic. I move expensive-to-feed animals to the trade center after babies are born pretty regularly, to reduce my overall feeding costs...and it seems to work.