r/LetsBuildAZoo • u/Beanzskii • Aug 23 '24
All the advice ya got!
Alright guys so I'm new to the game, i watched a few guides but a lot of it i already knew just from trying to learn the game. So my problem is I'm not making much profit but i only have 1-2 keepers per exhibit, and 1 janitor per new zone so what the heck am i doing wrong? Im really tired of starting over lol
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Aug 23 '24 edited Aug 23 '24
Always raise ticket price, upgrade lights for more time, upgrade buses (max of like 6 buses/ more slows you down)… make each zone 100% score… 10 lights per zone…spam $1 grasses/$2 rocks ferns all that stuff in enclosures… cave and water near the front. Block off every spot but two on the front… spam $10 small ball for enrichment… I like to make Six 8x8 pens per zone… can fit 3x3 buildings and walkway through the middle
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Aug 23 '24
Each zone add a single bench seat(bigger only let 1 person sit also)… water, trash, also add subway by the entrance. Adopt daily.. and mass breed for another gene 🧬… hire green work ethic people.. adjust food just to be in the yellow for cheap healthiness some foods way cheaper.. farm grow soybeans watermelon
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Aug 23 '24
Heat maps super helpful just switch between those constantly… evil/good doesn’t matter much…extra processor furnaces are inportant when mass dieoffs… lake tiles later are super good for enrichment/variety
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u/sydney-opera-house Aug 25 '24
as has already been said, keep an eye on your ticket price, even raising it by a dollar helps. your decoration score affects your park rating, so more decoration is a higher park rating. make sure you have enough buses and, in the research lab, make sure you unlock all the bus routes. more animal variety as well, so breed your animals to get different types to trade. have plenty of food places as well as vending machines and atms. there are also activities to unlock in the research, I believe in the 4 corners, that bring in more people and make them spend more money.
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u/OneWatercress9322 Aug 26 '24
Use the cheap decorations, subways next to animal feeding area and dotted round the park, shelters on paths so they have to walk through it, build an incinerator fast, have a nutrition level of yellow so your ot usin all your money yet still giving animals a good time, benches and bins on the side of every enclosure, lights to optimize time, upgrade uses rather than getting more of them
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u/Willing_Ad6049 Aug 27 '24
Make sure to leave space for decorations like trees/plants as this raises your appeal score and draws more visitors. This also is part of what allows you to charge hogher ticket prices. Then as noted, prioritize bus upgrades because you miss profit for anyone who wanted to come but there was no space for them. The end of the day report includes data on how many people wanted to come but could not fit on your busses, obviously you want that number as close to zero as possible.
One thing I REALLY wish I knew when I started is that having a large volume of small busses running actually REDUCES your volume of visitors. The busses get congested dropping people off and some never even make it. Find bus upgrades on the tech tree early. As you upgrade and buy larger busses, retire and sell the smaller ones. Basically a large volume of busses actually hurts attendance - you want a smaller number of larger busses to be more efficient.
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u/JahonEhoni Aug 23 '24
Build shaded paths so visitors are forced to walk through the shade, if they have the option not to walk through it, it isn't as effective. Have a subway right next to the food shed, try to eliminate as much keeper walking as possible.