I'm working on a walking trail in my Franchise zoo. I started the trail with Peacocks and Flamingos, then Aardvarks, where I'm currently building. After Aardvarks, it will continue on to Pangolins before crossing the main pathway and starting a run on Okapi, Springbok, Pronghorn and Thomson's Gazelle. All 6 animals that follow the birds are Shy around Guests, but allow them to enter their habitat. After observing the Aardvarks for several in-game years, I have many concerns. I expected to be able to get around this shyness problem by using 1-way glass inside the habitat. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work at all. As you can see from the below pictures, I have some glass where the Guests can look down the hill to the Aardvark's cave, and their feeding enrichment is surrounded by glass aside from one section in the rear where they enter. Despite this, the Aardvark's stress levels increase as if the glass wasn't there at all. When they enter their feeding enrichment (surrounded by 1-way glass), stress decreases for about 3 seconds, then immediately drops to 0. Inside their cave, they hide in the only section that the Guests can not see, which tells me the glass does not help at all in that situation either. Whenever they do decide to exit their cave, you can count the time it takes to go from no stress to maxed out stress in a matter of seconds...usually around 5-6 seconds. I just don't see how these walkthrough exhibits are viable at all the way this currently works. Aside from primates, birds, and tortoises, all of the other walkthrough animals are shy, which is a major bummer, since I've designed the entire opening of my zoo around this system.
As FYI, I had some experience with this in Beta with the Pronghorn, and based on that experience, I didn't expect this to be an issue. All I did for them was set up their hard shelter with it's rear to the walking trail, and a 1-way window between the shelter and the trail. The Pronghorns stayed outside for quite a long time and when they eventually became stressed, they went to their shelter and were able to recover, even with the 1-way window. Based on that experience, I was confident that 1-way glass would do the job.
Anyway, I have some questions, that I hope we can get some answers to.
1. Has anybody had success making functional walkthrough exhibits with Shy animals? By "functional", I mean where the animals are outside enough that the Guests get a good view, and still have places to go when they're stressed.
2. Is this a bug or by design?
3. Is there a way to get the Guests to be more quiet inside these "shy animal" exhibits? Some of them are yelling & teasing the animals nonstop. I placed a security guard inside, but it didn't have an impact at all.
4. Does anybody have experience with walkthrough exhibits with the other shy species? (Pangolins, Okapi, Pronghorn, Springbok, Thomson's Gazelle) I hope to find out whether this issue is unique to Aardvarks before continuing to develop my Franchise zoo. Don't want to waste money there if I can avoid it.
As FYI, I had some experience with this in Beta with the Pronghorn, and based on that experience, I didn't expect this to be an issue. All I did for them was set up their hard shelter with it's rear to the walking trail, and a 1-way window between the shelter and the trail. The Pronghorns stayed outside for quite a long time and when they eventually became stressed, they went to their shelter and were able to recover, even with the 1-way window. Based on that experience, I was confident that 1-way glass would do the job.
Anyway, I have some questions, that I hope we can get some answers to.
1. Has anybody had success making functional walkthrough exhibits with Shy animals? By "functional", I mean where the animals are outside enough that the Guests get a good view, and still have places to go when they're stressed.
2. Is this a bug or by design?
3. Is there a way to get the Guests to be more quiet inside these "shy animal" exhibits? Some of them are yelling & teasing the animals nonstop. I placed a security guard inside, but it didn't have an impact at all.
4. Does anybody have experience with walkthrough exhibits with the other shy species? (Pangolins, Okapi, Pronghorn, Springbok, Thomson's Gazelle) I hope to find out whether this issue is unique to Aardvarks before continuing to develop my Franchise zoo. Don't want to waste money there if I can avoid it.
