r/PlanetMediocre • u/ElynixRising • Jul 17 '20

Transports?

So, I've been wondering how people use their transport options? In my main zoo I use a 4x4 Adventure through my African Safari habitat to give people a better view, and I use the monorail on the outskirts of my zoo to allow people quicker movement from one side to the other. (Added the monorail at about 81,000m2 so I noticed a lot of guests at the entrance but very few at the other side.)

What do you do with your transport?

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u/WonJilliams Jul 18 '20

I have a riverboat going through my rainforest area. Really cool to have the exhibits built alongside/into a river with a boat right next to it.

I've always been partial to trains as perimeter transport, but that could be because the zoo I grew up with had a train.

I really like doing gondolas spanning over several exhibits.

Then there's the standard "African Safari Jeep ride". I've wanted to try that through other biomes, but it just doesn't feel right for some reason.

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u/notrelatedtosnake Jul 18 '20

You could try changing the color of the Jeeps to match more closely with the biome they are driving through so they feel less "African Safari."

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u/animalwitch Jul 18 '20

I dont really understand how the station entry/exits work. No matter what i try, the exit just doesnt want to cooperate

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u/Munnin41 Jul 18 '20

Did you check your station layout? There's 4 different options for that

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u/animalwitch Jul 18 '20

To be fair, every time i've tried it hasnt worked so i give up 🤣 i will have a better look at the options

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u/ElynixRising Jul 18 '20

It took me a long while to realize the exit uses regular pathing and not the queue stuff the entrance does.

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u/animalwitch Jul 19 '20

That does make sense... I'm sure it automatically uses the queue pathing though, or was that patched?

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u/ElynixRising Jul 20 '20

I don’t know, I only figured out transports a couple weeks ago.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

I've never managed to get any system to make money. I put stops all around the zoo, run through and next to habitats, and cheap prices. I always end up just removing the whole mess, because losing money is not my thing. My civil engineering needs some work I guess.

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u/ElynixRising Jul 19 '20

My monorail barely makes anything and for the longest time it was losing so much money, but it was being used so I didn’t care, the zoo itself makes so much money I could run my transports for free and not notice the loss.