Generally curious, pause mode
- Thread starter Chihaha
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Pretty much the same as NZ fanatic but time spent building (mostly paused) versus watching / checking things out decreases after the zoo gets bigger. Probably 80:20 at the start but decreasing to 20:80 once a zoo gets to a decent size (when I start making minor changes to and detailing areas without being paused and just looking around.
My main zoo is that big. Building without pausing the game just causes so much delay, so theres no other choice to pause my game while building.
I'm building in pause mode, too. And because I like building, it's about 90% (or even more?) I spend in pause mode.
I play in franchise mode, and find that I still spend 90-95% of my time on pause -- but I do that in three distinct capacities: Building, Trading, and Managing.
During those limited times when I am creating a habitat, then I'm on pause for the building section, similar to what others have mentioned above.
I also go into pause mode whenever I'm searching the animal market or placing my animals up for trade. Which is quite often for me because the trading is one of the aspects of the game that I enjoy the most, and one of the main reasons that I'm in franchise mode.
But even when I'm not trading or creating a habitat, I still spend most of my time on pause -- but in order to manage my animals rather than build. Before I hit play, I pull up the timeline feature, and I hit pause whenever a timeline item appears that needs attention. I take care of that issue and then unpause until the next one comes up. If I'm playing at normal speed with normal animal aging, then I'm basically pausing every few seconds.
If I have a zoo where I set it to 5 times slower for animal aging and decide to manage it less carefully (waiting for major alerts instead of proactively watching the timeline, foregoing the genealogy and compare mates features, etc.), then I can sometimes increase me play ratio. But even that's hard to judge because while there are longer intervals on play, when I do pause I end up having to spend longer on pause fixing all the management that I missed.
If I really wanted to be in play mode for a sustained time, I think I would really have to use the contraception much more than I usually do (or keep animals in solo or single-sex enclosures). Otherwise, the birth/maturity notices just become non-stop. But I like baby animals, and also like trading animals that I've raised, so while this may allow me to be in play mode more often, it would also decrease the opportunities to participate in one of the aspects of the game I like best.
The big exception for all of this for me is when I first open a new franchise zoo, I get some shops, breeding exhibits for bugs and frogs, and just a very few basic habitats, and then go into play mode to collect money. But once I'm through that early stage, it's pause most of the time.
During those limited times when I am creating a habitat, then I'm on pause for the building section, similar to what others have mentioned above.
I also go into pause mode whenever I'm searching the animal market or placing my animals up for trade. Which is quite often for me because the trading is one of the aspects of the game that I enjoy the most, and one of the main reasons that I'm in franchise mode.
But even when I'm not trading or creating a habitat, I still spend most of my time on pause -- but in order to manage my animals rather than build. Before I hit play, I pull up the timeline feature, and I hit pause whenever a timeline item appears that needs attention. I take care of that issue and then unpause until the next one comes up. If I'm playing at normal speed with normal animal aging, then I'm basically pausing every few seconds.
If I have a zoo where I set it to 5 times slower for animal aging and decide to manage it less carefully (waiting for major alerts instead of proactively watching the timeline, foregoing the genealogy and compare mates features, etc.), then I can sometimes increase me play ratio. But even that's hard to judge because while there are longer intervals on play, when I do pause I end up having to spend longer on pause fixing all the management that I missed.
If I really wanted to be in play mode for a sustained time, I think I would really have to use the contraception much more than I usually do (or keep animals in solo or single-sex enclosures). Otherwise, the birth/maturity notices just become non-stop. But I like baby animals, and also like trading animals that I've raised, so while this may allow me to be in play mode more often, it would also decrease the opportunities to participate in one of the aspects of the game I like best.
The big exception for all of this for me is when I first open a new franchise zoo, I get some shops, breeding exhibits for bugs and frogs, and just a very few basic habitats, and then go into play mode to collect money. But once I'm through that early stage, it's pause most of the time.