So I have some wierd things going on in my parks, and I'm not sure what is causing it (I suspect some of it has to do with the ATM bug, but there are probably other things affecting it too). If any of you can offer some insight or help it would be very appreciated
First an overwiew of one of the affected zoo's (I use mostly the same layout for most of my zoo's right now). In this zoo I have 30 species, 8 of them are exibit species. Some of the species I have are Cheetas, Lions, Aardvarks, Elephant, Rhino, A walk-in Lemur and a walk-in Flamingo, Semi-walk in Gharial, a Savannah habitat (5 species) and a Djungel habitat (4 species).
As you can see, the guests never have to walk far to find a habitat, exibit or shop and I have 6 big toilets spread evenly.
Now for the Problems;
1. Vandalism. I have lots of vandalism in my parks and I can't for the life of me understand why! All buildings are at 100% decor and all the areas are full of flowers and different decors, so that can't be the problem. There are plenty of things to see and do in the park and the guests don't have to walk far for anything. I have security cameras covering the entire park + security guards.
Here is a pic of how it usually looks after about 30min of not checking the crime tab (and this time it was very low, I did a similar test yesterday and left it for 45min, then it was 10 items in every tab)
This is a fairly new issue. Before (going back a month or two), I hardly had any problems with vandalism at all.
(And as you can see in the pic, the "replace all" buttons sometimes "greyes out" so you can't use them -.-
Does anyone know how to fix this? Am I missing something important?
2. Security guards. I never really understood the function of these. Right now I have 6 security guards. I started out with two, but thought that adding more might help with the vandalism issue (It didn't). They all have their own workzone and together their workzones cover the entire zoo. They all have a low workload and it doesn't seem to do any difference if you have one or six guards, I have never seen a guard with normal or high workload, it's always low. And I'm not sure how to set up their workzones either, as they seem to prefer to just walk around the staffpaths, complaigning that there is to little to do (their workzone consists of all the shops, atm's, toilets etc in their area).
So does anyone know how the guards actually work? Is it enough to just have one or two, as adding more seems to do nothing?
3. Invisible Exibits.
It seems like all my Exibits have turned invisible to the guests! I just noticed this a few days ago, so can't tell how long it's been there. Before, there was always at lest a few guests at all of the exibits at any given time, but now I only rarely see one or two guests at an exibit. In this zoo I have 8 exibits, four at the lower right side and four at the lower left side. I have the most popular critters (the snakes and iguanas) and the exibits are not far away from the main path or anything like that (in another zoo I had exibits on the very outher edges of the zoo and they still had plenty of visitors)
As you can see here, there are plenty of guests around this area, but not a single one is looking at the exibits.
And they are not unaccessible, as I have seen (very rarely) a guest or two go to look at them. I have also manually moved guests to them, and they do not get stuck. Some of them stay and look at the exibit and others walk away.
When looking at guests going home, many of them look like this;
They have seen all the habitat animals, but non of them have visited any of the exibits
Does anyone else experience this? I can't figure aout what is causing it, as I have never had this problem before, so I assume it's some kind of bug.
First an overwiew of one of the affected zoo's (I use mostly the same layout for most of my zoo's right now). In this zoo I have 30 species, 8 of them are exibit species. Some of the species I have are Cheetas, Lions, Aardvarks, Elephant, Rhino, A walk-in Lemur and a walk-in Flamingo, Semi-walk in Gharial, a Savannah habitat (5 species) and a Djungel habitat (4 species).
As you can see, the guests never have to walk far to find a habitat, exibit or shop and I have 6 big toilets spread evenly.
Now for the Problems;
1. Vandalism. I have lots of vandalism in my parks and I can't for the life of me understand why! All buildings are at 100% decor and all the areas are full of flowers and different decors, so that can't be the problem. There are plenty of things to see and do in the park and the guests don't have to walk far for anything. I have security cameras covering the entire park + security guards.
Here is a pic of how it usually looks after about 30min of not checking the crime tab (and this time it was very low, I did a similar test yesterday and left it for 45min, then it was 10 items in every tab)
This is a fairly new issue. Before (going back a month or two), I hardly had any problems with vandalism at all.
(And as you can see in the pic, the "replace all" buttons sometimes "greyes out" so you can't use them -.-
Does anyone know how to fix this? Am I missing something important?
2. Security guards. I never really understood the function of these. Right now I have 6 security guards. I started out with two, but thought that adding more might help with the vandalism issue (It didn't). They all have their own workzone and together their workzones cover the entire zoo. They all have a low workload and it doesn't seem to do any difference if you have one or six guards, I have never seen a guard with normal or high workload, it's always low. And I'm not sure how to set up their workzones either, as they seem to prefer to just walk around the staffpaths, complaigning that there is to little to do (their workzone consists of all the shops, atm's, toilets etc in their area).
So does anyone know how the guards actually work? Is it enough to just have one or two, as adding more seems to do nothing?
3. Invisible Exibits.
It seems like all my Exibits have turned invisible to the guests! I just noticed this a few days ago, so can't tell how long it's been there. Before, there was always at lest a few guests at all of the exibits at any given time, but now I only rarely see one or two guests at an exibit. In this zoo I have 8 exibits, four at the lower right side and four at the lower left side. I have the most popular critters (the snakes and iguanas) and the exibits are not far away from the main path or anything like that (in another zoo I had exibits on the very outher edges of the zoo and they still had plenty of visitors)
As you can see here, there are plenty of guests around this area, but not a single one is looking at the exibits.
And they are not unaccessible, as I have seen (very rarely) a guest or two go to look at them. I have also manually moved guests to them, and they do not get stuck. Some of them stay and look at the exibit and others walk away.
When looking at guests going home, many of them look like this;
They have seen all the habitat animals, but non of them have visited any of the exibits
Does anyone else experience this? I can't figure aout what is causing it, as I have never had this problem before, so I assume it's some kind of bug.
