Zoo Tycoon Money Cap

[The Elementalist]

So last night while I was waiting for my elephant birds to grow to adulthood, I held my fingers on the Shift and 4 keys to activate the money cheat (I had the Fences Forever hack installed), and while I was well into the two billions, my zoo's money went into the negative zone (luckily, I was able to get back on my feet by activating the developer mode). I think I was at around $2,145,000,000 when this happened. It's like the game is punishing you for having too much money.

[(Admin)Cricket]

That's interesting.  I've yet to experience that.  However, I've never increased my zoo's money to a value that high. 

 

Sounds like you may have run up against a money cap that must be hard-coded in the game.

 

I have my zoo.ini set to a value of $500,000,000 for both starting cash and max cash.  This allows me to build what I need to build without ever running out of funds. 

 

Be careful with the Fences Forever Hack.  I would hope that you are aware of its limitations.  If not, please see the Note from Jay at the bottom of this page:  Fences Forever Hack

[HeatherL]

I love the Fences Forever hack. I don't use a whole lot of user made fences and the ones that I do use, I just trap a maintenance worker in the exhibit with the zookeeper/scientist to make sure the fence is taken care of.

[The Elementalist]

7 hours ago, Cricket said:

Be careful with the Fences Forever Hack.  I would hope that you are aware of its limitations.  If not, please see the Note from Jay at the bottom of this page:  Fences Forever Hack

I am. The only user-created fence that I have is the invisible fence, and it does not break down even without the hack. I don't use it very often, though, except when I make aviary-type exhibits.

[jbl89]

It might have been 2147483647.
It's a programming thing and has to do with the way numbers are stored.
You probably hit this limit, after which the number went negative.

 

integer	4 bytes	typical choice for integer	-2147483648 to +2147483647