ZT1 Income

[(Trustee)genkicoll]

To make money, you COULD cheat by hitting <shift> + 4 ($) - each time you do it you get $10,000, but if you decide to go this way, be sure to do it before you start building, because it makes your fences deteriorate.

 

If you DON'T want to cheat, here are my money-making suggestions:

 

- When making an exhibit, try to put your animals in towards the end of the month - that way, you can wait until the first of the next month before hiring a zookeeper to feed/care for them, which saves $800

 

- When you first start your zoo, guests aren't hungry/thirsty/tired because they have those meters on full when they first come in. Wait until February to put in food places.

 

- Use restaurants. They satisfy hunger, thirst and restroom needs all at the same time, plus there's no trash. No trash means NO maintenance workers until fences deteriorate! Others may argue that guests like the food stands better, and that they will make more money over the long run, but I'm not sure they're taking the maintenence worker's wages into account.

 

- Put in an animal theater. Guests love them and they make a lot of money. Like the restaurant, wait until February first to place it. Carousels will also make some money for you

 

- Decorate later. First things first, make your animals happy by bringing the suitability up as high as you can. This will make the animals happy, and happy animals mean happy guests. Happy guests mean BENEFACTORS!!

You also get a bonus the first time you hit 99% suitability, which I believe is $15,000.

 

- Utilize the outer wall of the zoo. It will save you money on building fences. Also, used shared fences, as it means more money saved on fences.

 

- Raise your entrance fee to $29. Cheap = up to $19, Normal = $19.25 to $29, High = $29.25 to $49, and Expensive = $49.25 to $100. Unless you are wanting to keep guests out of your zoo (which can be a good thing if you don't want crowded animals), try not to raise your fee over $29. Less that $29 is just money you could have had without impacting the rate your guests will come.

 

- Put in exhibits for animals that breed quickly such as the warthog - sell off the adults and get some extra income!

 

- Endangered species such as the white bengal, okapi, black leopard, snow leopard and pandas will give you a $ bonus when they breed for the first time. The bonus for breeding pandas is $50,000!

[IcePengwyn]

$25,000 Guest Happiness Award

 

After a month or so, raise your admission fee to $100. This will minimize new guests, which come in with a happiness of 75 or so. Your overall guest happiness should rise and if you've done a good job with the zoo, you should be able to get your overall happiness to 95 within a week or so, and the $25k bonus. Once you get the bonus, drop the admission fee back to your desired setting.

 

You can also try the one guest method. After the first guest is in the zoo, raise the admission to $100. Keep that guest in front of happy animals. You may get that bonus soon. The only drawback is that if another guest pops in, the overall happiness drops a lot. The more guests in the zoo, the better your buffer for new guests dropping the happiness level.

[Guest joco3000]

Another tip

if you cant really be bothered to do any of the above, you could always change the zoo config file

[(Trustee)genkicoll]

That's true, but messing with the zoo.ini file can be disastrous if you're not careful to make a backup and don't know what you're doing. The point of doing these things is to win scenarios without cheating (by changing the .ini file) or using the <shift>+4 ($) cheat. :P

[Guest joco3000]

I know (I did it with JPOG)

 

these are the lines to edit

MSStartingCash =

MSCashIncrement =

MSMinCash =

MSMaxCash =

deleat the original values to what ever you want (if you want to edit)

[Guest Rockraider]

I usually will spread out my well liked animals in the back of the zoo so guest walk more to get to them, also making a big flamingo exhibit usually generate a good income. if using cheats Alfred H is excellent in long term scenarios though it can be diasterous for zoo revenue short term in large zoos.