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Hello, dear Tekies! ^v^ (hope am right here...) a bit of insight of "our" zoos :> ("mom" designed all, "me" downloaded everything) hope you like it! :D friendly greetings, Ren-tschi

I have a few Zoo Tycoon-related software projects in the works. EMU supports as early as Windows XP, but I'll probably start edging over to newer versions of the OS even though Zoo Tycoon 1 is much older. This means that my newer projects might require you to have Windows 7 or higher for example. Still, this information would be helpful to know!

Short answer: the ZT2 economy is completely messed up. Even with the non-glitch methods I will describe, realistically you at most will only make enough money to buy about one 2 or so star animal per month. Longer answer: these are the ways I’ve found to make money Donations are the main source of income. Therefore you will want donation boxes to cover all the exhibits. However you don’t need 1 donation box per exhibit: you can place 1 donation box in the border between 2 exhibits to cover both. You can also use tours and shows (if you have their respective xp’s) as additional sources of donations but they are expensive to set up and take up lots of space. Guests will donate more when there’s an education source nearby. You could hire an educator and place a podium near donation boxes but you can’t control where the educators will go. Therefore it’s well worth it to research the discovery kiosk (Endangered Species xp), which is unlocked at 1 star, and place it every 3-4 exhibits. Just like in ZT1, the compost building is basically free money well worth researching once you unlock it at 2 stars. One compost building is enough. The family restaurant is also pretty good, but it was nerfed from ZT1 as it now requires 2.5 stars and doesn’t meet bathroom needs. Once you get restaurants, delete all of the food stands. Again, like in ZT1, feel free to spam gift carts in high traffic areas. In the Endangered Species or African Adventure xp’s, there’s an exploit involving Jeep trail gates. It sells for $100 regardless of what fence was there originally. Therefore you can place a low chain link fence, the cheapest in the whole game, on a trail and sell the resulting gate to earn $50. This can be repeated again and again to make unlimited money. Is this unintended? Yes. Is this cheap? Also yes. Is this cheating? By definition, yes. Does this break the game? Not really because I don’t wanna wait for like 2 years to afford my one (1) singular T. rex At this point the Extinct Research Lab is a far more attractive option money wise for acquiring animals. The purchase and upkeep cost looks high but the animals you create in the lab are free.

From Jay: I just tested that entrance and invisible fence in ZT. Yes, having the invisible fence under the middle of the entrance does cause that graphics problem. Making it a proper fence probably also would not look good because that would probably make parts of guests disappear as they walk by it. I don't know why catfish made the walls as half tile objects instead of decorative fences. Instead of an entrance being made, a decorative working gate could be used instead. That would be the best from a graphics viewpoint. But the easiest would be for it to be used as intended. It does not have that specific graphics problem if there is no invisible fence under it. But it might still have that graphics problem if other low height objects are put in front of it. This piece is intentionally a full tile object that only has a half tile footprint. It was intended to have the front of it go against the grid line. pukkie is not using it that way. But even with the way pukkie did it, it could still be made to work. As the instructions for it say, the intended way to use them is to use 2, with 1 "behind" the other. The entrance itself will look the same, but that stops the graphics problem.

View File Balloon Animal Stand by Goosifer Balloon animal stand with the vanilla carnival buildings Balloon Animal Stand by Goosifer A balloon animal stand with custom vendor animations made by Goosifer. Fits in with the in-game carnival theme. Made in answer to a wishlist request made by @holly. Credits: Art assets, design, and animations: Goosifer Tools: Blender, Photoshop, GIMP, Tenacity, ZooT 1.1 Configuration: Jay Installation To install, drop the containing .ztd file in the following directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Zoo Tycoon\dlupdate This mod also requires the latest versions of LANG--ZTCDD.dll and LANG--ZKL.dll to be installed. Please visit the following links for directions and downloads to those files: - http://www.lunamanar.com/zklounge/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=816 - http://www.ztcdd.org/DG/index.php?topic=3734.0 Feel free to use the art assets in your own mods. As always I release my assets under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Submitter Goosifer Submitted 10/29/2023 Category Gift Shops

South American monke. Is this the last monke pack? Probably not. Animals: Geoffroy´s Spider Monke, Common Woolly Monke, Red-Faced Spider Monke Blond Capuchin, Black-Striped Capuchin, Panamian White-Faced Capuchin, Ecuadorian White-Faced Capuchin, White-Faced Saki, Brown Howler, Mantled Howler, Colombian Red Howler, Black Howler, Red-Handed Howler Central American Squirrel Monke, Black-Capped Squirrel Monke, Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin, Golden Lion Tamarin, Cotton Top Tamarin, Common Marmoset, Golden-Handed Tamarin, Silvery Marmoset, Emperor Tamarin, Goeldi´s Marmoset, Pied Tamarin Compatibility: Geoffroy´s Spider Monke, Mantled Howler - Borsato´s Baird´s Tapir, my Lowland Paca, Central American Red Brocket, Northern Tamandua, White-Lipped Peccary, Red Crowned Amazon Common Woolly Monke, Ecuadorian White-Faced Capuchin Red-Faced Spider Monke, Golden-Handed Tamarin - Borsato´s Capybara, my Pale-Throated Sloth, Red-Rumped Agouti Blond Capuchin, Red-Handed Howler Black-Striped Capuchin - Zarawatto´s Resplendant Quetzal, my Common Opossum, Crab-Eating Raccoon, Collared Peccary, White-Nosed Coati Panamian White-Faced Capuchin, Colombian Red Howler, Black Howler, Central American Squirrel Monke White-Faced Saki, Pied Tamarin - my Linnaeus´s Two-Toed Sloth, Black Agouti, Red Fan Parrot Brown Howler, Golden Lion Tamarin - my Vinaceous-Breasted Amazon Black-Capped Squirrel Monke, Emperor Tamarin, Goeldi´s Marmoset - my Brazilian Porcupine, Blue-Headed Macaw, Yellow-Crowned Amazon, Red Acouchi Golden-Headed Lion Tamarin - my Maned Sloth Cotton Top Tamarin - my Panama Amazon, Kinkajou Common Marmoset - Genkicoll´s Scarlet Macaw, Yellow-Ridged Touca, Borsato´s Golden Conure, Blue and Gold Macaw Silvery Marmoset - Genkicoll´s Swainson´s Toucan, my Turquise-Fronted Amazon, Chestnut-Fronted Macaw, Red and Green Macaw, Military Macaw Enjoy! hawkkeyes SA monke.ztd

Looking good! I love the minimap concept. So, when this is completed, where do we 'install' it? Us old farts will need a long, patient, kindergarten level tutorial.