How do people even get the new challenge animals?

[cerealfruitcakes]

I'm over here breeding all green gene gorillas and making crazy amounts of credits

The prices are skyrocketing. Males get scooped up for 2,000 in seconds & females can go for 3,000+ edit: just sold a few females for 5,000 each & a few males for 4,000.

I originally got most of my credits from breeding Flamingo's & then Bengal tigers in my first zoo,

 

[Kai]

I just do both but I love LOVE big cats
I have lions, tigers, and leopards at the moment (Among others of course)

Same here, love the cats. My favorite mini zoo atm is breeding the variant skins for all the cats (except the poor snow leopard who doesn''t seem to have a special skin yet).

I'm over here breeding all green gene gorillas and making crazy amounts of credits
The prices are skyrocketing. Males get scooped up for 2,000 in seconds & females can go for 3,000+ edit: just sold a few females for 5,000 each & a few males for 4,000.

Problem I have with gorillas, is that even 5000CC per animal isn't much when it takes 10 years for the babies to mature (and they only have one baby per female that I've seen).
If you love gorillas, it's all well and good, but I'm not a fan. I do like that circular style of breeding pen though; Looks very neat. Do you really make enough income to cover the food costs without a tonne of exhibit animals though? My pen with 5 gorillas used to cost a fortune to feed when they had babies.

 

[cerealfruitcakes]

Problem I have with gorillas, is that even 5000CC per animal isn't much when it takes 10 years for the babies to mature (and they only have one baby per female that I've seen).
If you love gorillas, it's all well and good, but I'm not a fan. I do like that circular style of breeding pen though; Looks very neat. Do you really make enough income to cover the food costs without a tonne of exhibit animals though? My pen with 5 gorillas used to cost a fortune to feed when they had babies.

I'm playing on the fastest speed so I'm selling off a couple of gorillas every few minutes. The zoo is completely in the hole financially due to animal feed, around $-400,000+ and growing but it doesn't matter, everything remains functional & its purpose is to just mass breed for credits. There's 4-5 female gorillas in each habitat so it's essentially a puppy mill.

 

[Kai]

I'm playing on the fastest speed so I'm selling off a couple of gorillas every few minutes. The zoo is completely in the hole financially due to animal feed, around $-400,000+ and growing but it doesn't matter, everything remains functional & its purpose is to just mass breed for credits. There's 4-5 female gorillas in each habitat so it's essentially a puppy mill.

Do the staff not quit if they don't get paid? I assumed there would be some punishment for being in the negative (staff quit, animals don't get fed, etc). Guess not.

 

[cerealfruitcakes]

Do the staff not quit if they don't get paid? I assumed there would be some punishment for being in the negative (staff quit, animals don't get fed, etc). Guess not.

Nope & even if they did you can hire staff without cost, it just keeps throwing ya into the red abyss! I'll find out if there's a limit eventually, sitting at $-630,000 meanwhile on my way to 200,000 credits.

 

[Wolfen75]

Had that on a small zoo that went south, was at -750.000$ in the end (didn't got much CC out of it sadly, was just testing what happening).

So you can build grindfarms without problems, but when you're trying to build a huge zoo with full managment the food costs are killing you.
Also inbreeding seems to have no impact at all, its only made to bother you when you try to build a functional, half way realistic zoo.

Guess i will have to build such a fabric as well, why do i even bother to keep the small zoos profitable with 2-4 breeding habitats?

 

[Fordrom]

Thanks for your fast reply. I still wonder how people get them in the first place? Like where do the "adam and eva" even come from? Did they buy it with conversation points aswell? But from who? The game is new...

In Addition to the Sold ones from "Frontier Zoo" you where able to obtain them as a Challenge reward. I got some of my rarer species from the Bengal Tiger Challenge as breeding and releasing rewards. So with a few hundred CC for a pair of Tigers you where able to obtain animals worth a few thousand CC.

 

[Kai]

Had that on a small zoo that went south, was at -750.000$ in the end (didn't got much CC out of it sadly, was just testing what happening).

So you can build grindfarms without problems, but when you're trying to build a huge zoo with full managment the food costs are killing you.
Also inbreeding seems to have no impact at all, its only made to bother you when you try to build a functional, half way realistic zoo.

Guess i will have to build such a fabric as well, why do i even bother to keep the small zoos profitable with 2-4 breeding habitats?

What mainly annoys me is that I think I'm going to start a whole bunch of storage zoo where I research the animals + build pens just to store my spare breeding pairs with good genetics. Not to breed them mind, only because I need a way to store them outside of the trading center.

30 storage space isn't even enough to keep even a single breeding pair of every animal, let alone a couple of pairs per species. Wish it was ~200.

 

[Fortunanovesia]

I'm over here breeding all green gene gorillas and making crazy amounts of credits

The prices are skyrocketing. Males get scooped up for 2,000 in seconds & females can go for 3,000+ edit: just sold a few females for 5,000 each & a few males for 4,000.

I originally got most of my credits from breeding Flamingo's & then Bengal tigers in my first zoo,

In your first zoo, how do you manage that amount of food cost?

Ive got 2 exhibits for gorillas in my breeding zoo now - and Food costs are exploding. I need to build exhibits for other animals to earn enough money to go bankrupt.

Sometimes i just dont get this game...

Edit: ah ok, got it. Pure Puppymill.