The "Official" Zoo Tycoon Guild v2

[TheElementalist]

My game came today!

Yay!!!! Just keep and eye on the time while you play, it tends to run off. I'll be playing and I look up and wow, 7 hours has magically passed by.

[oceanmist]

I played for an hour and a half. I'd play longer, but my screen is so tiny for some reason. it hurts my eyes.


Can we just talk about how useless the zookeepers are? All I'm getting is 'Zookeeper can't reach poop'. You are standing right next to it!

But the animals in this one are so adorable. I just need to figure out how to properly build the skyline(?), roads, and elevated walkways. I couldn't sit through the tutorials.

[MageLorelei]

Zoo Keepers are horrible. At least in 2 you can do their jobs for them. They always buy my animals water dishes- for god's sake, there is a perfectly good pool of water RIGHT THERE.

[oceanmist]

I'll walk into my enclosures and there'll be like 20 new food and water dishes.

[MageLorelei]

I'll walk into my enclosures and there'll be like 20 new food and water dishes.

Why don't they at least be more efficient and use troughs or something... I wish we could take it out of their salaries or something.

[TheElementalist]

I played for an hour and a half. I'd play longer, but my screen is so tiny for some reason. it hurts my eyes.

Can we just talk about how useless the zookeepers are? All I'm getting is 'Zookeeper can't reach poop'. You are standing right next to it!

But the animals in this one are so adorable. I just need to figure out how to properly build the skyline(?), roads, and elevated walkways. I couldn't sit through the tutorials.

Kay, here's a wall of tips:

Build your exhibits BEFORE you do skylines, it keeps the skylines from blocking the fence (which is annoying really, having to build the exhibit around the skyline). However build your ROADS before building your fence, that way you can work around the road. The elevated walkways can be built anywhere really, just make sure you do it two squares width because the people flow can get pretty heavy and you'll want to set aside a place for guests to eat (the whiney things), bathrooms, benches, and such.

As for building them, you just go to the transportation tab and set down the "main center" where you want it to start, then form a solid loop. If you do it correctly, once you feed it back into where you started it it should give you a notice that says "Skyline" or "Roadway" completed.

Zookeepers can be "given" exhibits to take care of. Click on the zoo keeper, and on the right hand it should give you a clip board button with a plus sign, that allows you to select certain zoo keepers to take care of certain exhibits. I usually do 1 ZK per 3 exhibits, and graduate it form there, 3 ZK's for 9 exhibits and such.

As for water bowls...in short, I hate them. I know it's petty but I don't care for their "look", I can handle water troughs, but I usually just throw in a click of water in the exhibit corner. The animals bathe in it too, hippo's wallow, elephants do too, and everything else will use it as a water source and a bathing source.

[oceanmist]

My issue with the walkways was that I would start building the down ramp and wouldn't have enough space, so I'd delete the down ramp and start again. Then I'd end up with a high level walkway.

I'll try it again. I fixed the screen resolution.

[Tupfensplitter]

I have Zoo Tycoon since many years and I love it.

[LightningDragon]

Can I join this?

[TheElementalist]

Can I join this?

Indeed Its a bit rusty though, I went on haitus *brushes cobwebs off*