What did you do in Planet Zoo today?

[Xrystal]

Yeah, I think the solution is to pre-empt the need to feed the animals rather than wait until they are noticeably hungry. At the hungry stage they start making the food and then by the time they are back to distribute the hungry animals could be starving. Then, the animals take a while to realise where the food is and run to it. Fixing the initial timing should improve the situation.

Heck, with the advancement of learning AI in gaming. How about they just introduce a computerised version of a zookeeper's learning process. Over time they can realise when the animals will need to be fed and make the food just before they start getting hungry. Similar with the cleaners, overtime they can learn where the messes are likely to be and go there more often. The mechanic can learn which vending machines/solar panels wear out the fastest and prioritise those. The list goes on. Unfortunately, its all processing time, and not everything can be thrown onto the graphics card for processing.

 

[Xrystal]

Phase 2 of the upgrade was to move the Pandas to the Sichuan Reserve ( towards the center of the map ). Their old area was turned into a walking park with educational elements with a few vending machines nearby. The 200k left after the Foothills were created very quickly fell to 40k with money being lost to wages and animal food ( almost always the reason for money loss for me rofl ). So, added 4 more swallowtail butterfly walkthroughs, 2 on each side. 3 of them however had to be set to moving to storage as the 2 near the entrance and one of the new ones bought me to the limit of the auto selling process. Thankfully the alerts let me know when a potential exhibit animal storage addition when the butterflies breed happens rofl. So, for now, it's manual selling every breeding cycle or two. Which has thankfully bought me back up to near the money I had before I started the move, although money goes down by 40k or so a year instead of up by 30k, but hopefully as I move stuff out of the central area and add more shops etc, more profit will surface. fingers crossed.
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Next stage in my China Zoo upgrade was to add the Himalayan Brown Bear to live on the Himalayan Mountains I had added to the zoo.
And while I was at it, I added a Merchandise store area. That will hopefully help bring in some more cash. And now time to speed up the cash with fast speed time for butterfly breeding and selling rofl. Currently up to 170k after the screenshot was taken.

 

[NZFanatic]

Here's the revised shapes of the giraffe and rhino paddocks. I don't know, the keepers are still dumping food by the shelters. Might just have to turn a blind eye, otherwise I'll end up rebuilding both habitats from scratch.

Bonus baby zebra:

And in that little corner off to the side of the giraffes that I was debating what pig to put in I ended up with Nile lechwe:

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Common Nile Lechwe Win

 

[NZFanatic]

Common Nile Lechwe Win

Honestly I briefly forgot they even existed. I was just scrolling through the Zoopedia looking for inspiration and I was like, "Oh, these guys, right!" Nice, small-sized, critically endangered antelope, perfect for a zoo like this.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Honestly I briefly forgot they even existed. I was just scrolling through the Zoopedia looking for inspiration and I was like, "Oh, these guys, right!" Nice, small-sized, critically endangered antelope, perfect for a zoo like this.

Thats the neat part about good oddball picks. You dont use them all the time cause most likly the zoo staples will take the lead, but everytime you use them it just feels good.
Meerkats are great, but its somewhat expected to build a meerkat habitat in most zoos, meanwhile the more oddball animals can often come in clutch for specific projects, making them great to differentiate zoos from each other

 

[Britches]

Trying to recreate something similar to the sulphur lakes in Danakil desert for my zoo located somewhere in that area.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Trying to recreate something similar to the sulphur lakes in Danakil desert for my zoo located somewhere in that area.

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Wow that looks incredible and is suchva creative idear, love it!
Lets just hope nobody takes a dip

 

[Xrystal]

Next stage in my China Zoo upgrade was to add the Himalayan Brown Bear to live on the Himalayan Mountains I had added to the zoo.
And while I was at it, I added a Merchandise store area. That will hopefully help bring in some more cash. And now time to speed up the cash with fast speed time for butterfly breeding and selling rofl. Currently up to 170k after the screenshot was taken.

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Next Stage of my China Zoo upgrade .. Qinghai Plateau. Basics were done yesterday with the final stages added today and moving over of the animals from the old area and reassigning or firing of the old staff and buildings.
Qinghai Plateau houses the Snow Leopard (left), Pallas Cat (centre) and Takin (right). Even with huge habitats it left plenty of room for a guest and vet area. The vets are on the left and concentrate on these 3 habitats. The guest area includes a merchandise store ( centre ), education building with vending machines and tables ( bottom ) and a restaurant ( between merch store and vet area ) With all that eating and drinking, there are 2 toilet areas in the area. With 2 paths to the area, it doesn't matter which route they took through the main zoo area, they will ultimately reach here ( or go around when I add the Lop Nur Desert and Gansu areas where the camel, horse and foxes will get moved to ). At that point I can tidy up the main part of the zoo and hopefully start making the guests happy again ( -11k refunds because they are unhappy, but I don't know why rofl - despite checking several groups of guests) .
I did drop down to 2k after I had moved the animals over to the new area, so, no more purchasing or building until I have run the zoo on fast speed and sold some excess butterflies rofl.

 

[Aramar]

I completed the Arctic area in the Eurozoo. The park is takig shape nicely.

 

[Marvinb]

Started getting into the world of font piece custom signage and started on a mural that will go into the future aviary for wadden sea shorebirds. And ngl this actually is alot more fun that i originally thought
From left to right these are meant to be harbor seal, artic tern, herring gull, cormorant, oystercatcher, pied advocet and ringed plover, the latter 4 of which will be in this aviary. Really wanna add a couple more like puffin, sandpiper and eurasian spoonbill.

 

[NZFanatic]

Well, looks like a few old bugs have returned. I fully rebuilt both the rhino and giraffe paddocks to try and fix the issue with keepers dumping food instead of filling the fully-accessible feeders, making both habitats smaller and more compact, but it hasn't worked. Additionally, angle-snap stopped working on habitat gates, which is kind of infuriating when trying to align barriers with buildings.

 

[Villanelle]

Well, looks like a few old bugs have returned. I fully rebuilt both the rhino and giraffe paddocks to try and fix the issue with keepers dumping food instead of filling the fully-accessible feeders, making both habitats smaller and more compact, but it hasn't worked. Additionally, angle-snap stopped working on habitat gates, which is kind of infuriating when trying to align barriers with buildings.

I don't know if there's some kind of bug going on, but I noticed today that a lot of my keepers are dumping food by the gate even when there were enrichment items accessible that needed refilling.

I also had a whale of a time with adjacent habitats that kept saying had merged and had multiple gates, when I swear they hadn't, but I'd edited the barrier somewhere else. I could only fix it by replacing all my null barriers. This happened several times over as I was working on a fiddly part of my zoo.

Maybe the last update broke a couple of things with habitats that now need fixes?

 

[Xrystal]

I've not noticed anything major while working on my China Zoo the last few days. The only problem I am having is the Prz.. horses getting their food when they are hungry but taking their sweet time going to where the zoo keeper has been putting it, be it regular food trays or food enrichment items. So far I haven't seen any dumping of food, but I haven't actively watched for it, just made sure they were placing food where I wanted them rofl.

Although, I have noticed a weird issue, whereby the animal alerts also trigger for animals in storage, until you restart ( noticed this the last time it happened ).

The Pandas however, chase after the next food source the moment the zoo keeper places it .. it's very funny seeing them race down the habitat or the next one if there are four or more at the nearest rofl.

 

[Xrystal]

Next Stage of my China Zoo upgrade .. Qinghai Plateau. Basics were done yesterday with the final stages added today and moving over of the animals from the old area and reassigning or firing of the old staff and buildings.
Qinghai Plateau houses the Snow Leopard (left), Pallas Cat (centre) and Takin (right). Even with huge habitats it left plenty of room for a guest and vet area. The vets are on the left and concentrate on these 3 habitats. The guest area includes a merchandise store ( centre ), education building with vending machines and tables ( bottom ) and a restaurant ( between merch store and vet area ) With all that eating and drinking, there are 2 toilet areas in the area. With 2 paths to the area, it doesn't matter which route they took through the main zoo area, they will ultimately reach here ( or go around when I add the Lop Nur Desert and Gansu areas where the camel, horse and foxes will get moved to ). At that point I can tidy up the main part of the zoo and hopefully start making the guests happy again ( -11k refunds because they are unhappy, but I don't know why rofl - despite checking several groups of guests) .
I did drop down to 2k after I had moved the animals over to the new area, so, no more purchasing or building until I have run the zoo on fast speed and sold some excess butterflies rofl.
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Got the money back up to 180k so it was time to set up and move the camels to their new Lop Nur Desert location. Technically Lop Nur is further beyond Qinghai, but there would be too much empty space between if I attempted that. Instead, I have put Lop Nur to the left of Qinghai and some mountains further beyond. Just a waiting game to see if the guests use the shuttle from Sichuan Panda Reserve to see the camels.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Started getting into the world of font piece custom signage and started on a mural that will go into the future aviary for wadden sea shorebirds. And ngl this actually is alot more fun that i originally thought
From left to right these are meant to be harbor seal, artic tern, herring gull, cormorant, oystercatcher, pied advocet and ringed plover, the latter 4 of which will be in this aviary. Really wanna add a couple more like puffin, sandpiper and eurasian spoonbill.
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You made them from letters and even encluded shading?!?

Thats just incredible man

 

[NZFanatic]

Maybe the last update broke a couple of things with habitats that now need fixes?

If that is indeed the case, I hope they actually do fix them. These are pretty painful bugs. It's especially annoying for me because throughout the game's life I haven't actually suffered a lot of the major bugs other players did.

 

[Cooper_yang]

 

[Xrystal]

Got the money back up to 180k so it was time to set up and move the camels to their new Lop Nur Desert location. Technically Lop Nur is further beyond Qinghai, but there would be too much empty space between if I attempted that. Instead, I have put Lop Nur to the left of Qinghai and some mountains further beyond. Just a waiting game to see if the guests use the shuttle from Sichuan Panda Reserve to see the camels.
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Next Update to the China Zoo. Moving the Red Panda from its old lonely home atop the mountain in the east to its slightly hilly area nearer to the entrance to be the first cutesy animal the guests see. And thus the Yunnan Reserve is created. Opposite the Red Pandas is a glade housing every vendor stall possible rofl to suit their purchasing needs. Hopefully this will help bring the profits up rofl.

I was hoping the train route being expanded to go around the bulk of the zoo for quick access to areas would be popular, but for some insane reason, they prefer to walk everywhere rofl.

Anyway, next stop is to move the horses that are currently in the paddock near the new Red Panda habitat along with the Red Foxes to their new home in Gansu Reserve east of Qinghai Plateau. If .. the money holds out .. time for some more playing/speedups and selling those excess butterflies again.

 

[Xrystal]

5 years of playing ... over a thousand hours .. and I just realised where the benches are placed are just as important as being placed rofl. Apparently the view from this bench is .. merely .. ok rofl. That could explain some of the unhappy guests rofl. And there I thought I was helping them get some energy back from all that walking rofl.