fountain Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 group tours Blue surfing waiting area family posing before petting zoo Overviews of zoo entrance Overview Of N America petal #1 & #2 More to come.
fountain Posted July 22, 2012 Author Posted July 22, 2012 Closer views of 'Petals" Sandhill crane mute Swan & Whooping Crane Sea turtle & blue heron 2nd N Amer petal Stork, barracuda, jellyfish Amer Avocet & Long-bill Curlew 3rd N Amer petal Trumpet Swan & greater Roadrunner Although the long petals look good, if the exhibit is too elongated and guests cannot see animals right away, guests will not explore the long paths. Lazy people.
(Trustee)ZooGrammy Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 Fountain, a great zoo. I had to snag several pictures. I especially love the first two.
pukkie Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 Awesome zoo design! I love the screens It looks fabulous :glitter_happy:
JohnT Posted July 22, 2012 Posted July 22, 2012 Just one terrific zoo and design. :290::glitter_happy: I must have missed a download, the blue and white stars in the Sandhill Crane Pic. Are they here in the download section? :balloons::t108008::loveboat::t108018:
fountain Posted July 22, 2012 Author Posted July 22, 2012 "Stars" are flowering clementis (sp) vines & I can't find the file name either. will have to to try searching.
fountain Posted July 22, 2012 Author Posted July 22, 2012 From "Caddie's Request foliage" Zoo title is "Birds & what they Eat". I tried to do a cat-fish-bird but not enough room for the cats.
fountain Posted July 23, 2012 Author Posted July 23, 2012 Thanks everyone for the compliments! I've been working (& researching) this zoo for 3 weeks. Stormy's Flower map at ZTUF is my favorite map. It comes with lots money by the time you clear path squares. The guest happiness is 93-96% which really surprises me because I focus on animal happiness and the look of the zoo. I think about real life problems of guests cutting corners & getting stuck or lost, bathrooms & trash, making money. I do use the freeform unlock hack & the research hack. Amazingly, the game keeps awarding me for animal & guest happiness and number of exhibits. I assign 3-4 exhibits to each keeper or marine specialist and overlap their assignments for more populated exhibits and/or the more fussy animals. I also name the staff with derivations of their animals' type or name to help me remember who is assigned to which exhibit. That also helps to weed out occasional staff that cannot seem to handle it. I hire a few tour guides to help bring visitors to less visited exhibits --which does not always work. I like to group animals by region to demonstrate diversity and theme the along path foliage. I do need to learn how to separate download e.g., just taking the ZKL angled (guest) animations I want to use so as not to clutter or overtax the game. BTW the those animated guest "statues" are sitting on path stairs because they cannot use the benches. That works out as a kind of amphitheater which is often seen at various outdoor venues. Here are more screen shots: trout forceps fish Overview of N Amer "petal" 3 It would be nice if these green parrots, who now live in NYC and other urban areas, could be redone as an Urban/Suburan Pack with the appropriate parrots, peregrine falcons, other birds, coyotes, and other creatures that can handle scenery buildings or even active buildings as part of or annex to exhibit.
LadyZookeeperNY Posted July 23, 2012 Posted July 23, 2012 Extraordinary! Very well built, colorful, inviting-excellent zoo building! So much better than I have ever been able to do. Looking forward to seeing more! Keep Building! :flowerysmile:
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