Very large savanna habitat

[CoinLonnert]

Dear all,

I am refurbishing my zoo and wanted to build a very large savanna habitat. Today I had one habitat with the eight savanna animals and somehting about 10,000 sqm. Overall population is slightly above 50 animals. I have had some cleanliness and food issues until I had assigned two dedicated keepers to that habitat. Since the habitat is already very large and as I have the feedlots distributed throughout the habitat they spend a lot of time walking.

Actually I would like to further increase the size of the habitat and include elephants, hippos, etc. However I fear that I will loose control over the cleanliness of the habitat. I thought about two options, but before tearing down my zoo, I would like to have your feedback:

Questions:

• How do keepers stack? Today I have assigned two fully trained and dedicated keepers and I wonder if I can just increase their number. I ask because right now I have not seen both of the cleaning at the same time and I wonder if the game's engine allows that.
• The other option was using the null barrier to virtually split the habitat. However I fear that the animals will be considered escaped if the travel from one habitat to another. Somebody has experience with this?
• If you have other ideas that would not limit my freedom to design the habitat too much, please let me know.

Thanks for your help!

Coin

 

[nightcat]

How do keepers stack? Today I have assigned two fully trained and dedicated keepers and I wonder if I can just increase their number. I ask because right now I have not seen both of the cleaning at the same time and I wonder if the game's engine allows that.

I think you can add more, but there is definetly a limit on how big of a (working) habitat is possible. Maybe someone else can say more.

The other option was using the null barrier to virtually split the habitat. However I fear that the animals will be considered escaped if the travel from one habitat to another. Somebody has experience with this?

Yes, I tried it. The animals count as escaped.

If you have other ideas that would not limit my freedom to design the habitat too much, please let me know.

You could work with invisible barriers and non-traversable-bushes in the ground to create a big habitat that looks like it's "one" habitat. But it would be purly asthetic since the animals can't really reach the other parts of the big habitat.

 

[felinora99]

When I load in PZ I'll tell you exactly how many animals and keepers I have (I am in Franchise, easy mode, and never had any issue).

I have African buffalos, elephants, Thomson's Gazelle, Giraffe, black wildebeest, Springbok and Zebra (so around a 100 animals I guess ?), and I have at least 4 keepers.

I don't divide the habitat, but I do have all feeders quite close to the door (and I love seeing all the animals run toward them when the keeper refill them !)

 

[CoinLonnert]

Ok, I will see the information you come back with. In the meantime I call the bulldozers

 

[felinora99]

OK so I just sold a lot of animals, but while counting them I realized I am still overpopulated (I try not to pause for the challenge, but they breed soooo fast !).

I currently have (still overpopulated a bit):

• 120 animals exactly in my habitat
• 5 keepers (4 fully trained dedicated to this habitat and I just hired a new one as two were too tired from the hard work, also dedicated to the habitat)
• the habitat has an "earth zone" (sorry my game is not in english) of 24 808m² and a water zone of 3 145m²

Also my saddest animals are the zebras, both due to not enough shelters (despite having the 3 biggest africa ones in the habitat...) and to over population (I always forgot I can only have 6 of them..) : and their happiness is at 96% (yeah, they are the saddest of the habitat, you feel how mistreated my animals are XDD)

Last tip : I have a long river, so I put a bridge in the middle of the river to help my keepers so that they don't have to walk all the way around the river for 1 single poop.

Hope this helps and have fun !