Make a Good Zoo in Zoo Tycoon
It's hard to get the hang of this great game, Zoo Tycoon, but here are some good tips to give you success.
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Steps
- Make a handful of exhibits; five is a good number. Pick animals that are cheap to maintain.
- Click on the animal you've placed in the exhibit, and you will see a zoo keeper face on the right of the small box that pops up in the bottom right corner of your screen. Click on the face, and it will tell you what the animal wants in its cage. Follow the instructions to make your animal happy.
- Hire a zoo keeper to look after your animals. Your animals will be unhappy if they have no food, which only the zoo keeper can provide.
- Make a food court. Select dirt path, and make several longer rows of it, making a good sized square of land dirt. Put a drink stand, a food stand (sea dog or hot dog are the best for the beginning of your zoo) a few picnic tables, a few restrooms and a few trash cans.
- Hire a maintenance worker to mend fences and pick up trash.
- After a while, you should make an aquarium with bottle nosed dolphins or orcas, and then put a show tank next to them, along with stands. People will pay to watch the orcas/dolphins show.
- You'll have to hire a marine specialist, instead of a zookeeper, for marine animals.
- You have to make the marine specialist have the show tank as one of their assignments, or else they won't do shows.
- As soon as you can, make a compost building (away from where people walk because they don't like the smell). They are slightly pricey, but they don't have any upkeep costs, and they earn money fast. In a few months, one had made me $18,000.
- Check your store and food buildings to make sure they are making you money. If after profit, the number is in parenthesis, then that's how much your building has lost. Either lower the prices or sell the building.
Tips
- Look at people's thoughts to see what they want and what they are liking to know if you should do anything differently.
- You can make it so zoo keepers are in charge of two exhibits. That way, you won't have to pay as much monthly salary to them.
- Put animals of opposite gender equally into an exhibit so they will breed. Once they have babies, sell the oldest animal in the exhibit of the same gender so you can have a mate for the now mate-less animal, and get money off of the animals before they die of old age.
- Compost buildings do nothing but make you money - once it becomes available, get it.
- Try to get endangered animals to breed. Selling them will get you lots of money. For example, a baby giant squid is $1,000!
- Don't buy dinosaurs until your zoo is pretty big.
- Don't make sharks right away, they need a special shelter that is not available until after you have been going for a while.
- Make sure you have plenty of trash cans or your zoo will be littered with trash.
- Use maps!
- Start out with animals that have cheaper needs it saves you money.
- Don't make buildings (beside the first basic food and drink building) unless people are asking for it. (ex. "there are a lot of thirsty guests" signifies that you should build another drink stand or two)
Warnings
- Never let any animals out! They will attack your guests, destroy buildings, and ruin your zoo's history!
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