I must've missed some tips or tricks in getting water treatment facilities to work properly with large bodies of water because the body of water in this scenario, being shared between two large exhibits with lots of different animals, is horrible to deal with. Even with three water facilities, the water is always murky/dirty and is always causing MOST of my animals to get very sick. I tried to separate the two exhibits with a solid barrier to sort of create two new bodies of water, but both didn't improve after a few months. Is there something I can do to fix the water not getting cleaned, even when the heat map shows the color of those specific bodies in green (meaning it's getting cleaned)? Protesters are always showing up in my park because of this issue, bringing guest happiness down and crashing my cash flow for several months until most of the animals improve their well-being just enough to cause the protesters to leave.
Great Caldera Safari Park - Large Body of Water NOT being Cleaned
- Thread starter coasterfreak0471
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Oh boy here we go again!
Great Caldera is broken. The water do get clean, but slooooowly, it takes the water treatment a year to clean it and it’s dirty again in 2-3 months, so it’s completely useless. If you wish to complete this scenario:
Miscellaneous advice for this scenario:
I got gold today, so I can happily return to pretend this scenario doesn’t exist. But...I’m actually glad I made it, because the story part. Otherwise, the next one must be really disorienting.
Great Caldera is broken. The water do get clean, but slooooowly, it takes the water treatment a year to clean it and it’s dirty again in 2-3 months, so it’s completely useless. If you wish to complete this scenario:
- Put all your vets to research illnesses. Wish I could give you names, but my game it’s not in English, so just watch whatever your animals catch and research that. It will solve the crisis faster.
- Put a fence around the lake, it will slow down the speed at which animals get sick. Yes, only slow down, because the animals ing love the infested lake so much that will CLIP TROUGH THE FENCE to drink from it. Even if the fence is nowhere close to the water.
- But leave a tiny portion without any fence, in a rock or something. No with invisible fence, but no fence at all. Again animals love their polluted water, and if you close the access completely, they will break everything and escape constantly. Reducing the access only will need to fish them from water from time to time.
- Still, hire mechanics and reduce the time they revise the fences, because they will still broke them. Their forbidden liquid love is too strong.
- Don’t forget your put fountains and other sources of water for them to drink!
- And elephants will also need a lake for themselves. Be careful with the ride underground.
Miscellaneous advice for this scenario:
- Focus on the objectives , nothing more. Don’t try to fix the safari. Don’t try to optimize things or make them prettier. It’s broken and it’s a waste of time. Quicker you act, less you will suffer.
- Leave only a pair of African wild dogs. They are broken and will kill each other if there’s more than 2 on the enclosure.
- Fire all the staff that it’s not 1 star (2 if you feel generous). Replace them with new, minimal wage people. It’s cruel but since protestors will make you lose so much money it’s just how this scenario works right now.
- Cover the place in bins. People are nasty. Don’t forget to get janitors for the trash.
- And the additional space goes for any educational thing you can shove.
- Don’t bother expanding the zoo for new habitats, just put them on the ride route. Remember, no animal shall access the lake!
- Breed and release, breed and release, breed and release.
- Tons of marketing is your friend with the last guests goal.
I got gold today, so I can happily return to pretend this scenario doesn’t exist. But...I’m actually glad I made it, because the story part. Otherwise, the next one must be really disorienting.
Known issue, you'll see some other threads discussing the problem.
Unfortunately, unless you get really lucky, we'll have to wait for a bug fix from Frontier. Hopefully soon!
Thanks for the headsup about this being discussed and for the tips! I should REALLY look at the forums more often to see if any comments I have about Planet Zoo have been mentioned in a previous thread. I apologize for being another person bringing this particular issue up, but I appreciate you guys (or girls) responding in a kind way and giving tips for completing this scenario.
I managed to complete this one without going quite as extreme as Chammy. I did fence off the lake (and experienced the issues with the clipping) but shoving quite a lot of water pipes down seemed to do the trick mostly so I didn't actually bother researching the diseases that much. Didn't have the issue with the protestors as I got rid of those quickly by improving the terrain and enrichment scores and hiring a few vets so the sick animals weren't sick for long (click to quarantine is your friend). Did the opposite with the staff and trained up rather than hire more but cheap. The wild dogs didn't have an issue but that was before the last update so it may be a problem now.