Franchise Mode (1 entrance)

[Gasalon]

Hello all,

since you can have only 1 zoo entrance in Franchise Mode I was wondering if that is sufficient if you plan to use the entire building area for a huge zoo. Would the guests even reach the opposite side of the zoo? I am not that far yet but it would be a shame if you put a lot of hours into the zoo just to find out that it won‘t work in the end, because the devs thought that it is a brilliant idea to put that limitation into Franchise Mode.I haven‘t seen any official statement about that yet, has Frontier announced anything here?

I like the animal market mechanics and I don‘t really want to dumb everything down and go to sandbox mode.

 

[Wolfen75]

At the moment you will get killed by the bugged food costs long before you reach that point.
I doubt that someone has filled the map to this point in franchise mode.
I had maybe 1/4 of the map filled and it worked so far, its important how you set the shops to lure the visitors
(shops have a greater pull than any animal with a 10.000 appeal sadly) and keep them happy.

It maybe possible that you need the transports later, but i utterly suck at building those, so i didn't tried it.
And at some point i was sick to bother with the meaningless fluctuating animal food prices and closed my big zoo.

After 150+ hours spend mostly on my huge zoo, i would say its doable to fill and run half the map (once the food cost issue is solved),
i am not sure about the whole thing.

 

[Gasalon]

Have to say that I have not encountered any food pricing bugs being 50 hrs into the game, but I probably was just lucky. I guess I can use the area far from the entrance for duplicate habitats and breeding purposes without any guests being present

 

[Agathorn]

Honestly I don't see how you could even keep up with all the micromanagement of a franchise zoo that filled the whole map. I've filled maybe 25% of it? And I'm already reaching my limit.