The extinction zoos saga

[cadaverine]

Alright, we are starting anew! Been a while since I got to play with zoo tycoon, so we're going with a really small map :]

 

 

This empty plot of land and concrete was given to Cada with a fairly simple request. The city wants a park, a place of greenery. Fairly standard, except they also want it to be stocked with extinct life. Less standard. No matter. Within a few years, this place can be teeming with life.

 

Cada wanted to pack the place full of tyrannosaurs, but this was firmly vetoed when the city caught wind of his plans. Probably for the best. If those got loose somehow, it would be catastrophic... and it's a park, besides. People need to be able to walk through the place! How will they go anywhere if the place is full of albertosauruses?

 

 

Reluctantly, the beginning of the park started to take shape sans large dinosaurs. And what do parks have? That's right, no matter where you go, parks have bugs. The novelty of large crawlies should surely entice anyone to come visit! Don't YOU want to see a giant myriapod? Perhaps even several? Yeah you do.

 

Two arthropleura to begin with. It's not much, but it's all that could be afforded at this point in time.

 

Oh, and a restaurant and everything but who cares about that. You don't come to the empty plot of concrete with a side of millipede just to not look at the millipedes. Though I suppose they aren't millipedes yet... they're just myriapods.

 

 

It didn't take long before they were already multiplying, which was nice. Sure, people like seeing baby animals of any kind. But also spending 3k on bugs to constantly replace ones dying of old age just sounds like a money sink, so if they could kind of keep themselves population-stable for a bit it would be appreciated.

 

... it is kind of adorable though.

 

 

The next part of the park expansion involved more park. In the future, this will become a lovely viewing area. A scenic, shady spot to enjoy. That's in the future, though. At the time, the priority was just about laying the groundwork. So it was a path, some rocks, and dirt.

 

But hey, there was dirt. Instead of concrete. Big things are happening, my friend. Big things. And by big things I mean the imminent budget cuts because we spent one dollar too many on dirt.

 

As such, several months were spent sitting about, recuperating money, and adding some foliage to the observation area.

 

 

After that, a new expansion was added for pulmonoscorpius. Two of them for now. People love bugs in the park. I mean, it's the main reason I go to the park, personally. There's some cool guys. Did you know that a lot of mosquito species have stripes legs? They're very pretty! And we'll be seeing a lot more of them in the future thanks to all the water. If you go to this park, you'll get the FULL bug experience.

 

More pulmonoscorpius specimens be created in the future, but at the moment, it seems best to limit the number of things we spend money on. At least we're back over $20k in this moment of time. It's definitely better than $341.

 

Oh, and we built a bridge going over the water. It might seem like a bit much now, true, what with that little puddle. But we fully intend to create an entire lake. Cada actually insists on it.

 

In the future, this entire area of the park will be one large open area to be enjoyed by all. But for now Cada has invented a special Invisible Forcefield dividing the area, keeping the species separate from one another. We see no reason the scorpions and millipedes can't play nice with each other in the future, though. But that should wait until most of the park isn't just empty concrete, I think.

 

 

Some materials were replaced with stone because it looks nicer. We might tear some of these walls down entirely in the future; they don't look entirely cohesive. Perhaps wood would look nicer? Something to think about. And it isn't as if we need to be too concerned about keeping people safe from giant myriapods, of all things. I doubt they pose any real threat.

 

These minor cosmetic changes were made at the start of December. It feels odd to think that an entire year passed without too much really happening... no escapes, no huge constructions... just a steady, slow growth.

 

 

And at the end of december, one of the original two arthropleura passed, leaving us with three (I'm not sure when they bred. I looked away, and suddenly there was a little one). Ending the year on a bit of a low note, but bugs don't usually live that long anyway.

 

...... arthropods used to be larger because there was more oxygen in the air, and because of how they breathe, it meant they could become significantly bigger than they are today. That same respiratory system doesn't work as well in a lower-oxygen atmosphere (like what we have today), meaning you have to use less oxygen in order to run your systems, meaning your bodies become smaller on average.

 

Which is all to say, are we sure this is humane? Cada, this is fine, right? Yeah, it's fine. Let's not think about that too hard. I'm sure it was old age that took Medulla from us, and nothing else.

[pukkie]

These are so alien like

Beautiful zoobuilding Nicely done

[(Admin)Savannahjan]

Nicely developed so far.  Humane?  hmmmmm....