Thank you! I lost interest in Cities Skylines because money was too easy to come by. Having to carefully pick what I need to spend money on really makes the management aspect more enjoyable and meaningful. I hesitate to purchase Planet Zoo because people complained that money was too easy to come by. I feel right at home here.
Just spent a few HOURS managing my finances...
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AGREED! Actually having to manage my park has been an absolute blast. Could use a few tweaks for sure but overall progression is a million times better.
Mind giving me some pointers please? With amenities at least. I have tried everything but no matter what I do, my profit is negative. I have tried the Configurations. I checked my parks guests appeal. It says, %50 General and %50 Adventure. I tried to configure amenities to appeal to them but I only get about 20 guests out of 200 and a negative profit of like $2000-$7000. I cannot get past the first Challenge in Canada because I always go bankrupt. I'm getting so frustrated that I'm about to quit.
Can you share a screenshot of your amenity with the Configure menu open?
Id look at where your amenities are placed. Not just using the satisfaction view, but look at where the path is crowded. An area can have high demand for an amenity but if there aren't many people there then you wont make much if any profit. Best to try an cluster buildings where guests will congregate, hotels, viewing platforms/galleries, attractions. The way viewing platforms work now means you can place them far away from enclosures and get a good dinosaur view.
If the path is crowded as it should be then make sure the path entering the amenity is a wide one. I haven't tried challenge mode yet, but im refining this on chaos theory before i hit the challenges.
Alot of money was gained by putting amenities near the viewing areas of dinos, closing gates immediately upon storm warnings, keeping dinos happy. Good clean, management fun.
Use your Management View to see where there's a need for either a Food, Drink or Shopping Amenity, then place the specific building in that area. When you're placing down a building, there should be a number indicating how many visitors the shop is likely to get. After you've built the Amenity, wait a little for the guests in the area to build up and actually visit the shop. Modules can quickly drain your money if you build them too fast, so wait for the guests to start visiting.
Once you have a nice build-up of guests, check your shop and see how many visitors it's getting, then see if you should build/change some Modules. If you hover over a new internal module it should tell you if it will increase or decrease how much money the shop will make.
Good luck, ARoc!
Use your Management View to see where there's a need for either a Food, Drink or Shopping Amenity, then place the specific building in that area. When you're placing down a building, there should be a number indicating how many visitors the shop is likely to get. After you've built the Amenity, wait a little for the guests in the area to build up and actually visit the shop. Modules can quickly drain your money if you build them too fast, so wait for the guests to start visiting.
Once you have a nice build-up of guests, check your shop and see how many visitors it's getting, then see if you should build/change some Modules. If you hover over a new internal module it should tell you if it will increase or decrease how much money the shop will make.
Good luck, ARoc!
I figured out the problem. But also thanks for the pointers. It really helped me. My problem was, not enough guests to make a profit. I fired all my expensive scientists and hired cheap ones. That made me make a profit for the park. My amenities were still negative. I saved $$$ grew more dinosaurs and before I knew it, Boom!! Amenities were in the positive. Thanks though, I didn't know I could see estimate customers depending of where I build it until I saw your post.
Here's my advice for those having problems making a profit. Fire your scientists and hire all the dirt cheap ones. Your park will slowly go positive in profits. Just hope you don't get hit with a storm. I was up $3 Millions in profit almost wiped to nothing after a snow storm.
Happy to help! And more dinosaurs will always help as well