Zoo Tycoon general

[Anonymous No.5624679]

[Anonymous No.5624681]

>Putting all the trees and rocks in the corners for cleaner exhibitions for max animal happiness
Very efficient if I say so myself.

[Anonymous No.5624684]

>>5624681
But anon, that's not maximizing how aesthetically pleasing the exhibit is

[Anonymous No.5624729]

>>5624679
this game was all i played for the longest time. i loved how you could feed the tourists to some of the animals.

[Anonymous No.5624928]

>October 17, 2001
NOT RETROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Anonymous No.5626543]

>>5624928
I've seen newer games talked about here, fuck off

[Anonymous No.5626573]

You're keeping Zoo Tycoon alive and using newly discovered techniques to keep making mods right anon?

Also Open ZT when?

[Anonymous No.5627252]

>>5626573
Giant Tortoise?

[Anonymous No.5627316]

>>5624928
That rule goes for systems, retard.

[Anonymous No.5627345]

>>5624928
It can be played on an pre 2000 pc. Seethe more.

[Anonymous No.5627886]

>>5626573
Do you know of any competent mods?

[Anonymous No.5628685]

>>5627886
Aldabra Giant Tortoise specifically

>>5627886
https://zootekphoenix.com/forums/forum/22-current-projects-for-zt1/

Mods have been pretty bustling lately since people figured out a very easy and efficient way to port ZT2 animals and normal 3D items easily to ZT1.

[Anonymous No.5629287]

>>5628685
Damn that looks really clean, I didn't know there was any sort of community left for this game

[Anonymous No.5629474]

>>5624681
>Zero aesthetics at all
>While lowering animal happyness due to being exposed
You want to know how I know you never dealt with rare and/or endangered species in that game?

[Anonymous No.5629482]

>>5628685
>There are mods
I know this might sound obvious, but it wasn't for me. I just assumed everyone ignored the game and it died without modding community.

You can't even imagine how grateful I am right now, anon

[Anonymous No.5629497]

>>5627345
He's still right - it's not retro. Even if it qualifies on every other merit, it's post 2000. Great game and no place to discuss, so just keep talking game instead of arguing. Arcanum also gets a free pass lately.

[Anonymous No.5629550]

>>5629482
No prob Anon, the modding community has always sorta been there since the beginning, but it only really took off recently because, like I said, huge innovations were made in making new content.

https://zootekphoenix.com/forums/topic/10934-automatic-sprite-rendering/

If anyone here is interested here's how the process works. You need an account to use this forum I believe, but it's worth it. This is pretty much the last bastion for Zoo Tycoon 1 to my knowledge.

[Anonymous No.5629592]

What the fuck was his problem?

[Anonymous No.5629615]

>>5628685
>>5629550
>No peaceful peacock mode
Shame. The best thing in every zoo are the peacock just walking around and ignoring the shit out of tourists or their treats, doing their peacock business

[Anonymous No.5629661]

I'm going to say something that will probably blow your mind

There is a secret unmarked show animal in the game that can perform in shoes and it's not one you would expect

There is shockingly little information out there about this easter egg

[Anonymous No.5629702]

>>5629550
Any Pachycephalosaurus mods?

[Anonymous No.5629707]

>>5629702
Yes actually, I believe it's in that thread by that creator in fact

[Anonymous No.5629708]

Any download links to the actual game? (complete collection)

[Anonymous No.5629710]

>>5629708
Literally go to pirate bay

[Anonymous No.5629725]

>>5629661
The Beluga?

[Anonymous No.5629736]

>>5629725
Try them and find out. Like I said it's fucking weird when you do find it. The animal really can perform shows though.

[Anonymous No.5629769]

Jesus why did this game have so many fake cheats

>That fake cheat that said you could unlock a Unicorn by naming an exhibit Xanadu
>That fake cheat that said you could unlock a Triceratops by naming an exhibit Cretaceous Corral
>That fake cheat that said you could unlock Deinosuchus by naming an exhibit Super Croc
>That fake cheat that said you could have Mermaids by placing a Mermaid statue in a tank
>That fake cheat that said treasure chests and clams could be placed in tanks with animations
>That fake additional marine show animal
>That fake cheat that said if you put a African Lion, Bengal Tiger, and Grizzley Bear in one exhibit together you could unlock the Yellow Brick Road

What was with this game and all the fake cheats online about it?

[Anonymous No.5629778]

>>5629769
Nice bait

[Anonymous No.5629796]

>>5629778
Thanks, my mom made it for me. She loved this game, one of the few I could get her to play.

[Anonymous No.5629836]

Someone told me about the secret show animal thing a long time ago but I could never get any of the one's that don't have a star next to them to go in, also in the game files there are no tricks for animals other than the existing show animals

[Anonymous No.5629858]

>>5629836
Are you doing it right? Set up a normal tank, and a show tank, and test animals. It's one of the early game animals so it shouldn't take long to discover

[Anonymous No.5629873]

>>5629858
HOLY SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT'S HILARIOUS

[Anonymous No.5629895]

>>5629769
>Mermaids in a zoo
>literal sentient human beings living in an enclosure and performing shows for no pay
What did Zoo Tycoon mean by this?

[Anonymous No.5629898]

>>5629895
It's ok, they aren't sentient, they're women. You can't get male mermaids.

[Anonymous No.5629919]

>>5629898

[Anonymous No.5630016]

Post those zoos and plans for zoos

[Anonymous No.5630134]

>>5630016
>Check Zoo Tycoon thread before hitting bed
>Enlarge image out of curiosity
>Big huge bugs of the worst kind
I've got severe entomophobia. Thanks, now I will be unable to sleep

[Anonymous No.5630596]

Friendly reminder that if you have the Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection, you still don't have all the official content. Don't forget to grab the American Flag and Sable Antelope, official content that had to be excluded for legal reasons!

[Anonymous No.5630685]

>>5630134
Buggies are friends

[Anonymous No.5631443]

>>5624679
>>5626573
Was there ever a mod that added a fast forward button? I went back to it a few years ago and I hated having to wait to make enough money to continue building stuff.

[Anonymous No.5631451]

>>5624681
It's not really efficient. And as already pointed out by other anon, it stresses the shit out of animals, despite in the same time providing them with "perfect" exhibit.

[Anonymous No.5631738]

>>5624679
Okay you made we want to try. Does it run well on modern machines or do I have to set up a Virtual PC?

[Anonymous No.5631828]

>>5631443
You'd need an OpenZT to do something to that scale.

>>5631738
I've never tried it on Windows 10 but on every other system, including Windows 7, it runs absolutely perfectly. No virtual PC, no emulator, no compatibility issues, it just runs.

[Anonymous No.5632118]

>>5631738
It works just fine for me and I'm on windows 10

[Anonymous No.5632424]

Hey, so have you guys played the prototype and looked in the game files? There's a ton of content cut from the games that's not even mentioned on tcrf, like beached marine animals, bigfoot with tits, and more

[Anonymous No.5632709]

I don't know if I suck at this game or if income generation is too slow. Just feels like i'm waiting forever to make any money.

As a kid i'd always use money cheats but now i'm trying to play legit and it's painfully slow.

[Anonymous No.5632715]

>>5632709
What buildings do you use, and how frequently do you use them? Show your economy screen. Also don't forget that entry price is a thing.

[Anonymous No.5632778]

>>5632715
Shouldn't have worded like I was playing it now, in fact I don't even have the game installed atm.

That was just my last feeling when i played it about a month ago, can't remember what I did exactly but I'd build just about every building that generates money and try to get exotic animals that get lots of donations and still the income felt slow.

[Anonymous No.5632791]

>>5632778
Placement of buildings and animals is more important that having a bunch of them. You need to be really careful, and think of how guests will flow. For example, if you have a high traffic area near the end of one set of exhibits, thats the perfect place to put a restaruant, and an entertainment building close but not right next to it. As for animals, you rack up donations by having them near similar animals, and in very high quality exhibits. Donations won't be a primary income source though, concessions are.

[Anonymous No.5632898]

>>5632778
Placing just a lot of them can actually be disadvantageous if they don't make more money than their upkeep costs, location is everything

[Anonymous No.5633020]

Do you have any kind of "standard" display size or just make custom cages each and every time? By custom I mean just its size, not how it's organised inside, since duh, each animal has different needs

[Anonymous No.5633027]

>>5632791
>>5632898
Different anon and I never, ever made any stable profit in this game. Always just cheated for money, build my perfect park (while usually further ignoring income-generating stuff) and watched animals as they walk in my make-believe zoo.
My local zoo, while one of few in the country and relatively big, is notoriously boring and mismanaged, so I always just vented my frustration over that into the game.

[Anonymous No.5633790]

>>5633020
10x10 is very spacious and should keep all but the most big animals happy, good when you're experimenting or wanting to play safe. 8x8 also works if you want to be a bit more economical. You can go much smaller though depending on the species and how many you want to put in there.

[Anonymous No.5634748]

[Anonymous No.5635707]

So how do I know when I should jack up the prices for concessions and for park admissions? I finally managed to make a profit but damn it's like 1000$ a month. It'll take me 2 years to be able to afford to build another exhibit at this rate, the terrain landscaping costs are the money real killer.

[Anonymous No.5635742]

>>5635707
Look at your food concessions. You have a lot of them in one area, you can cut down on them drastically by pruning the redundant ones. Compare profits, and sell the weaker ones, those should help a lot with upkeep.

Also set your admission to $49, that's a good set up price. Also set up a swimshack somewhere, that's a good attraction, but it also makes guests very tired, so if you place a restaurant near it it's very easy money.

[Anonymous No.5635745]

>>5635742
>49$
Holy shit that's like double what I'm charging right now lol. Where can I see feedback on if i'm charging too much or too little? In RCT i can tell from guest thoughts but I'm not sure if Zoo Tycoon does the same.

[Anonymous No.5635747]

>>5635707
>>5635742
Also keep to easy animals near the beginning that have simple exhibits to set up, as well as easy going ones that won't mind mediocre suitability. You can increase the suitability later, just having the animal helps. Also, keep popular animals near the middle or deep end of zoo sections, and lesser popular animals nearby them. The popular animals will attract the guests there and they'll go through the lesser popular exhibits to get to them. Otherwise if you put the most popular animals near the beginning, they might skip lesser popular ones.

>>5635745
You'll get a notification. Generally admission price isn't the biggest deal in the world, and it can be used to your advantage during scenarios when you want to slow down how many people are coming into your park.

[Anonymous No.5635775]

>>5635707
>>5635747
Also, one final thing, your path is too small. For side paths and other low traffic areas that's not a big deal, but for your main path and heavy traffic areas, it should be wider. I usually make my main path 3 wide.

[Anonymous No.5635858]

>>5634748
I find drowning RCT guests/staff and trapping guests so they can't ever leave the par k hilarious, but I can't bring myself to hurt endangered animals.

[Anonymous No.5635931]

>>5633020
If you plan on putting just a single breeding pair, usually 6x6 is the smallest feasible size. For certain species it's 8x8.

[Anonymous No.5635935]

>>5629615
Peacocks are gay. Do you like them? Because that would make you gay.

[Anonymous No.5635937]

>>5635742
>>5635747
Wait, there is an actual economic aspect into this game?
I was always under the impression the economy is flat-out broken and should be just ignored, the game being just another "tycoon" coasting on RCT popularity, only this one having a really nice aspect of building zoo.

[Anonymous No.5636125]

>>5635937
It works it's just really slow and like the other anons have said it's about placing concessions and exhibits strategically. Making decent money in this game is a lot harder than RCT.

[Anonymous No.5636129]

Question about the compost building, can I place it in a corner of the map somewhere and never worry about it or do zookeepers need to be in walking distance of it?

[Anonymous No.5636150]

>>5636129
I think i've answered my own question and it seems you can just stick in anywhere.

[Anonymous No.5637610]

Bump

[Anonymous No.5638689]

>>5637610
God dinosaurs were so fuckheug in this game, I loved it

[Anonymous No.5638853]

Its kind of a pain in the ass to incorporate tank elements into an exhibit but it is nice attention to detail that they gave some of the animals that can swim, swimming animations where they submerge below the surface if they are in a tank. (considering marine mania is not base game)

[Anonymous No.5638856]

>>5637610
Is this modded or are you able to unlock those statues somehow?

[Anonymous No.5638918]

>>5638856
Mod

https://www.moddb.com/mods/no-grass-please/downloads/no-grass-please-version-15