Myers Sunshine Happiness Zoo

[daisymayuk]

Is this actually working right or, is my brain broken? I know its been updated because the first time I played through to bronze I sold half the buildings and hideous decorations and this time I cant.

My main problem is haemorrhaging cash. I have restarted it 5 times now and spent hours trying to get this place to work and each time nothing works. I have watched several youtube videos and no one is having a cash flow problem. Staff happiness i fixed easily several times but this last time despite putting up all their money and adding a staff room with happiness perk they are still not happy. Vendors don't go to the shops (which I hate having anyway... you don't go to the zoo to stuff your face with burgers...) when there are vendors in the shops customers arent going to buy things. I have tried putting shop prices up, and down nothing seems to work. Also my education is just below 2 stars despite having boards and speakers at every habitat and exhibit and a load of environment boards too. I want to change the generator to wind turbines but the research doesnt seem to be progressing and anyhow at -6k now even with a loan I couldnt do it.

I cant work out how to get this zoo to work right, If there is something big I have missed I'd love to know. Or if it has a problem it would be nice to know. I don't like asking or looking online for help because I feel that all the information should be in game, but it isn't.

 

[Cocolori]

Sorry, I've done this one to gold but it was a while ago and I remember it being really tough. Plus it was before some of the updates. I remember deleting and moving several shops (I don't think you can delete the shells) and working out some specific work rosters. I think I built at least 2 new staff rooms straight away and immediately researched the larger staff room and keeper hut.

 

[Nioell]

I just completed this one again over the weekend and yes, it was harder now that you can't sell stuff but it's not impossible. First thing I did was pause the game and adjust the staff payments to the exact point where it makes them happy, then added two extra staff rooms (I didn't even add workzones at all) and tried to make the habitat animals as happy as possible without the research. Then probably the most important thing: exhibit animals are your fast breeding, money making friends. Make sure you got at least one male and one female of each, if possible 2-3 females where you can and set the right temp/humidity for them. This'll get their welfare up to 80% and they'll start breeding not long after. Depending on how many offspring they have you can sell a bunch for 3-5k if not more.

And don't give up when you drop into the negatives for a while and don't take the loan, you'll only loose more money while paying it back. My zoo was around 50k in debt in the beginning and once the exhibit animals started breeding I got out of that in no time at all. While you wait for them to breed you can research the other animals and add toys as soon as you got a little money again...happier animals = happier guests = more income. You can also try to get some cheap animals for CC so you got a pair of wild dogs, zebras and tortoises, even a second tiger. I got some cute babies that way and even more guests that were happy to pay more for their tickets as well.

That's how I managed to complete it in the end. Maybe this'll help you in some way

 

[Cocolori]

Good tips from Nioell. I'd forgotton to say don't take the loan. I had to restart this one several times and I remember now it was the loan that was hurting me a lot.

 

[daisymayuk]

Thank you so much i was trying not to spend money so hadnt got any more animals i was trying to get it working first... other than that i did exactly the same, although i was trying to research for the wind turbine and had one vet on animal research. I had paused the game at the start sorted out all the habitats and education boards and staff room, i tried adding 2 in one go and just 1 extra the last time but had not got mates for all the lonely animals Its staff wages and ticket refunds that seem to be the main problem. Ok im not giving up I will try again and get as many mates as I can early on and take the slowing down animal ageing/breading thing off too. Thanks again for your help Happy new year!!

 

[Xrystal]

I completed this the other day and it was easier than the first time through ( due to time spent on franchise zoos making it easier to know how to make money quick and what not to do ). I pretty much followed a similar path to Nioell.

 

[daisymayuk]

I did it!! Thank you those little spiders did the trick even tho I really dont like them. Once I got over that first hurdle the rest wasnt too hard at all.

 

[WingardiumLevicoaster]

I'm on my way to gold, but I haven't found I needed to sell anything yet. I haven't especially done any breeding to make cash. Though the peafowls and mandrills breed quite well. I haven't added any additional animals really. Just been working with what I have.

 

[Kensulu]

Here is another tip for those looking for help on this pain in the butt scenario. The guests are all freezing so also place heaters on fences, posts, bridges etc to warm up their areas they wall as they will stay longer and spend more money.