Tips to keep your guests happy:
#1 - Animals, animals, animals.
Make sure there are animals visible from
every which way the guests may happen to turn. This isn't going to help
at all, and may even have the opposite effect, if your animals aren't
happy. Therefore:
- Reach for that 100% suitibility rating on your exhibits! A high
suitability will make for happy animals.
- Make sure your animals are not feeling crowded by too many guests. If
you see that your animals are feeling crowded, use a fence that your
guests can't see through on much of your exhibit, leaving only a few
viewing areas where they can see in. This is especially important on
your shy animals such as pandas, many of the leopard species, etc. Also,
NEVER put your pathway directly touching the fence of the exhibit on
your shy animals. I recommend always keeping a tile between your pathway
and your exhibit, since even the most social of animals will feel
crowded by 1000 guests meandering past their exhibits
- Be sure that you don't have too many animals in your exhibits. Nothing
will anger an animal more quickly than being crowded by their own
species. If they get crowded, find the newest animals in the exhibit,
make sure to leave at least one male and one female, and sell off the
older animals - this will prevent losing animals to old age, thus giving
you a nice financial boost
- Keep a zookeeper assigned to the exhibit. This will prevent the
exhibits from getting filled with too much poo (which the animals really
hate), and the presence of the zookeeper gives the animals a happiness
boost. I recommend putting the gates to exhibits close together (if not
touching), so that the zookeeper can easily go from one exhibit to the
next.
#2 - FOOD!
Guests have needs - hunger, thirst, bathroom and energy. While they have
these needs, they don't necessarily want them filled My biggest problem
when I first started playing Zoo Tycoon is that I could never make my
guests happy no matter HOW many restaurants and rest areas I put in!
Truth be told, your guests would rather have all their needs at ZERO
than to have too many places to fill their needs! Therefore:
- DON'T put in too many restaurants/rest areas. When you DO put in these
things, be sure to make them easily accessible to the guests.
#3 - Attractions
We all know that the guests enjoy the attractions - Aviaries, reptile or
insect houses etc, but how much do they really like them? This one I'm
unsure of. In my experience, the guests would much rather see an exhibit
filled with happy animals than to go to an attraction. In my current
zoo, my zoo rating is at 98 and guest happiness also at 98...and the
only attraction in my zoo is an animal theatre.
#4 - Marine Shows
If you have the Complete Collection and/or Marine Mania, you've probably
tried having shows in your zoo. For happy guests, turn off your shows
because they'd rather sit at a show than take care of themselves. Turn
the shows on only for short periods of time, then turn them off again so
guests will take care of their needs
#1 - Animals, animals, animals.
Make sure there are animals visible from
every which way the guests may happen to turn. This isn't going to help
at all, and may even have the opposite effect, if your animals aren't
happy. Therefore:
- Reach for that 100% suitibility rating on your exhibits! A high
suitability will make for happy animals.
- Make sure your animals are not feeling crowded by too many guests. If
you see that your animals are feeling crowded, use a fence that your
guests can't see through on much of your exhibit, leaving only a few
viewing areas where they can see in. This is especially important on
your shy animals such as pandas, many of the leopard species, etc. Also,
NEVER put your pathway directly touching the fence of the exhibit on
your shy animals. I recommend always keeping a tile between your pathway
and your exhibit, since even the most social of animals will feel
crowded by 1000 guests meandering past their exhibits
- Be sure that you don't have too many animals in your exhibits. Nothing
will anger an animal more quickly than being crowded by their own
species. If they get crowded, find the newest animals in the exhibit,
make sure to leave at least one male and one female, and sell off the
older animals - this will prevent losing animals to old age, thus giving
you a nice financial boost
- Keep a zookeeper assigned to the exhibit. This will prevent the
exhibits from getting filled with too much poo (which the animals really
hate), and the presence of the zookeeper gives the animals a happiness
boost. I recommend putting the gates to exhibits close together (if not
touching), so that the zookeeper can easily go from one exhibit to the
next.
#2 - FOOD!
Guests have needs - hunger, thirst, bathroom and energy. While they have
these needs, they don't necessarily want them filled My biggest problem
when I first started playing Zoo Tycoon is that I could never make my
guests happy no matter HOW many restaurants and rest areas I put in!
Truth be told, your guests would rather have all their needs at ZERO
than to have too many places to fill their needs! Therefore:
- DON'T put in too many restaurants/rest areas. When you DO put in these
things, be sure to make them easily accessible to the guests.
#3 - Attractions
We all know that the guests enjoy the attractions - Aviaries, reptile or
insect houses etc, but how much do they really like them? This one I'm
unsure of. In my experience, the guests would much rather see an exhibit
filled with happy animals than to go to an attraction. In my current
zoo, my zoo rating is at 98 and guest happiness also at 98...and the
only attraction in my zoo is an animal theatre.
#4 - Marine Shows
If you have the Complete Collection and/or Marine Mania, you've probably
tried having shows in your zoo. For happy guests, turn off your shows
because they'd rather sit at a show than take care of themselves. Turn
the shows on only for short periods of time, then turn them off again so
guests will take care of their needs