[Franchise] Got to catch them all

[Stan013]

Just a genuine question how do you get some of the animals in the game that aren't on the trade market for example Artic Fox. Are they avaliable but just really really rare or something? If so is there a release schedule so I can go and try to snipe some of them.

Basically I have a lot of hours in the game and currently trying to breed every animal to have a 100 gene pool. So have spend many hours on the trading market as well and just genuinely never saw some of the animals. Have participated in 25+ community challenges and still nothing. I would like to have a zoo one day with all the animals but starting to feel impossible.

 

[Ounze]

Some times a species just won't be on there for hours. the trick is to keep checking. Their presence mostly depends on other players putting their up for market. If you aren't consistently seeing them, I'd suggest verifying your files or checking that you are indeed sorting by species.
As some one who is making a franchise zoo to every species... Do it in sandbox. I have hit a point where seemingly no matter what I do, I can't make enough money to cover staff. I suspect that franchise has an effective ceiling in it and, assuming its existence, you will hit long before all animal species get in.

 

[turkeyfox]

There aren't any species that are just never available. Even if human players aren't selling any, the frontier bot puts up new animals of every species every 10 to 20 minutes.

Arctic Foxes are actually very common on the market. People breed them a lot because they reproduce very quickly. If you have never seen an Arctic Fox in 50+ weeks of playtime the most probably explanation is you don't own the North America DLC.

 

[Roxxsmom]

Other folks have already said this, but some species are intermittently available. So if they aren't up at a given time or on a given day, they might be later on. Sometimes a whole bunch seem to be dumped on the market at once. I haven't noticed that arctic foxes are especially rare in the franchise market, but it's been a while since I've purchased any for a zoo. It's certainly true that some species, such as lions, nearly always seem to be for sale (and for a high price, so demand must be high), but others not so much. I suppose it a function of which species most players think are "essential" for their zoos? Also, lions are especially fertile as big cats go, and people tend to have prides with more than one female in it. So franchise zoos with lions tend to end up with more than they can house pretty quickly.

Arctic foxes are very, ah, fecund, so when someone does have them in a franchise zoo they tend to overpopulate. I often get the feeling that if I turn my back for a few minutes and focus on something else in my zoo, two foxes in a habitat are now 12 mature foxes that are fighting for lack of space (or inbreeding if one of the parents has died). It seems like there would be waves of foxes on the market, when a player who does have them ends up with a whole bunch at once. Maybe this rapid maturation rate paired with a relatively low lifespan discourages some folks from keeping them? Would be nice if there were a setting to move juveniles to storage when they are mature, though habitat storage fills up quickly too. I've noticed a sort of "boom bust" cycle in the market with fennecs and red foxes too.

The Frontier "zoo" also puts animals up from time to time. I don't know if they have an algorithm that checks for low availability or not, though that would be cool. The Frontier animals are often poor quality, but now and again a decent one comes up. At least they can be used to widen the gene pool of one's breeding colony. I've found that breeding a good quality animal with a "meh" Frontier animal can yield at least some good offspring, depending on how the "genes" line up.

 

[Stan013]

Thank you all for the replies I found some spare time put on a video and have been looking at the marketplace for about 30 minutes. I have a filter with about 50 animals that I have never managed to find but still absolutely nothing. I refreshed every second and all other filters besides the animal one are off. I checked my Steam and in-game to see if I have the DLCs and all of them are installed. In sandbox mode or scenarios, I can get these animals as well so I am sure they are in the game. Also checked and got several exhibit animals in my zoo from the DLCs. I did it from 17:30 to 18:00 CEST so really have no idea why none of these animals are showing up.