losing money and hapiness

[razedbyewolves]

Guest needs are all green but happiness is yellow so I am not sure whats going on and I seem to be at a stand still with my money not making more

 

[Dinocanid]

What animals do you have? Did you check the heatmaps to see if anything is lowering guest happiness (staff buildings, trash, etc)? What do the guest comments say?

 

[razedbyewolves]

I have Timber wolves, Western Lions, Grizzly Bears, flamingo's, iguana, Goliath birdeater, yellow anaconda and yes to everything else to what you said all guest are green and staff but the happiness is in the yellow.

 

[Arrakai]

How much education items do you have? Do you have speakers and boards so that it covers all viewing areas of the habitats? Do you use the conservation boards (the ones that teach about enviromental problems) and if so, where do you place them. A screenshot of your zoo's education heat map might help

 

[Dinocanid]

Check your lions, as they're very expensive to feed (especially if you have more than one), and could be the reason you're losing money so quickly.

 

[AlexVonHumbug]

if every demand of the guest is green (energy, food, drink, washroom, education) and happiness is not green, then some guest might be stuck somewhere. if they cant move, they become unhappy. that could be caused by some pathfinding issue (f.e. if a shop is odly connected to a path) or something you changed on your zoo recently or if the zoo was build some weeks or mounth ago before patches. you can move them per hand or remove the od path, they are standing on. you can use the happiness-map overlay to spot them.

 

[NL_Mutso]

You'll need to check your guest tab on your overview page. (next to the financial tab?)
You'll see what's bugging your visitors (crime/trash/too warm/too cold)
- having your other bars green is something different than the happiness bar.

 

[razedbyewolves]

ya its none of that I have no crime it does get cold that's only once a year so I am not sure whats going on

 

[LN]

ya its none of that I have no crime it does get cold that's only once a year so I am not sure whats going on

What do guest comments say?

 

[Swjosdotschka]

Could be that there are protestors in the zoo or the animal welfare isn't right. That would be something that would not show up in the tab. As Luuknoord said, I glimpse into the guest thoughts could help you further.

 

[NL_Mutso]

ya its none of that I have no crime it does get cold that's only once a year so I am not sure whats going on

Maybe post a screenshot of your guest tab/quest thoughts will help..

The happiness bar is not an average score of your other bars.

 

[Paul_Crowther]

Check the guest thoughts to see what issues they are having. Do you have food and drink near to the main habitats? Is there sufficient transport so guests don't need to walk too far to get where they want to go?

 

[razedbyewolves]

screen shot

 

[Dinocanid]

Do you have information stands and/or gift shops? Those sell umbrellas to guests

 

[NL_Mutso]

That's not much guest thoughts, is that the entire screen / all thoughts?
(if that are all the animals - you'll most likely have a noticification: Zoo is small)

• Information stands for umbrellas
• Add roofing on crowded paths

other options:

• more species (turtles/crocs/gharials are cheap & popular)
• Maybe welfare of your animals isn't that great?
• Check for broken stuff in your zoo (fixable 1-click in the crime tab)
• Garbage
• The negative circle of staff facilities is within the visitor paths
• Add more scenery
• In the crimetab look how many pickpockets there are on a yearly basis (if this is a lot - add more security)
• Paths are too narrow, (visitors get stuck)
• the circles of your education overlay eachother
• Add heaters if the average temperature is low, add coolers if the average temparature is high (put down 1 - set a decent temperature and copy that one for multiple placements)