I'm looking at everyone's well made and finished zoos and I'm incredibly jealous.
So far every zoo franchise I've tried to start has been riddled with game-breaking bugs that've stopped me every single time from really getting to -play- Planet Zoo. First zoo suffered from the notorious issue of Zookeepers not wanting to take care of animals, which has since been patched. Second zoo crashed because of animals generally not eating.
Third Zoo suffered from not getting any donations, which I powered through and eventually found a fix. Only for it to start crashing every time I tried to edit a work zone.
So Fourth and Final Zoo, I decided to really stick in my heels and I was -determined- to get a good playthrough going this time. I just got my weeks vacation from work and I intended to make good on the last two days Planet Zoo would be up... But of course:
Animal Market isn't even loading. So, with that I frankly just give up. It's a shame the game looks like a blast and I hope for release that these bugs are all worked out so I can have a smooth play-through and sink my hours into it. I would have loved to give my two cents on the Franchise Mode economy for animal trading and whatnot but I can barely get a park running without some game breaking bug slapping me in the face so I can't even get off the ground or something that cripples a zoo that -is- off the ground.
I know beta is beta, there will be bugs but, man I hope Frontier got the information they needed because I felt totally useless in this beta. Not a single park of mine actually worked and each time got broken by something outside of my power to actually deal with.

Again just disheartened and venting. I wish the rest of you luck and I'll be looking through your amazing builds, hopefully it'll give me ideas when the game fully releases and it's bugs are worked out. Keep Zookeeping folks!
So far every zoo franchise I've tried to start has been riddled with game-breaking bugs that've stopped me every single time from really getting to -play- Planet Zoo. First zoo suffered from the notorious issue of Zookeepers not wanting to take care of animals, which has since been patched. Second zoo crashed because of animals generally not eating.
Third Zoo suffered from not getting any donations, which I powered through and eventually found a fix. Only for it to start crashing every time I tried to edit a work zone.
So Fourth and Final Zoo, I decided to really stick in my heels and I was -determined- to get a good playthrough going this time. I just got my weeks vacation from work and I intended to make good on the last two days Planet Zoo would be up... But of course:
Animal Market isn't even loading. So, with that I frankly just give up. It's a shame the game looks like a blast and I hope for release that these bugs are all worked out so I can have a smooth play-through and sink my hours into it. I would have loved to give my two cents on the Franchise Mode economy for animal trading and whatnot but I can barely get a park running without some game breaking bug slapping me in the face so I can't even get off the ground or something that cripples a zoo that -is- off the ground.
I know beta is beta, there will be bugs but, man I hope Frontier got the information they needed because I felt totally useless in this beta. Not a single park of mine actually worked and each time got broken by something outside of my power to actually deal with.
Again just disheartened and venting. I wish the rest of you luck and I'll be looking through your amazing builds, hopefully it'll give me ideas when the game fully releases and it's bugs are worked out. Keep Zookeeping folks!