What's the point of sandbox w/ zero starting cash?

[Newim]

It's one of the options you can choose; I'd take it as a challenge to take out a loan and trying to pay it off but you can't take out loans. I wonder why it's a possible decision to start like that. Any ideas?

[Kargul85]

I set it up today too and it seems to make NO SENSE! There's nothing you can do, I thought I could earn some money/take out a loan, but I can't!

[The Former]

Come to think of it, this is a good question. I was thinking maybe you could round up dinosaurs and sell them but... You need facilities to do that.

[Sotek]

Actually, using this can be quite fun. The thing is, don't START your game with zero starting cash.
What you do is, use, say, medium amount of cash and start your initial facilities and maybe 1-2 different dinos, THEN set to zero cash.
It will immediately give you a zero balance, wiping out all your remaining cash, leaving you to your own devices to make money with tickets, sales and contracts.
Basically, allowing you to set out your own starting point then allowing you to make your own money.
try it with a few facilities and see how it goes.

[Scipo0419]

Originally posted by Sotek:

Actually, using this can be quite fun. The thing is, don't START your game with zero starting cash.
What you do is, use, say, medium amount of cash and start your initial facilities and maybe 1-2 different dinos, THEN set to zero cash.
It will immediately give you a zero balance, wiping out all your remaining cash, leaving you to your own devices to make money with tickets, sales and contracts.
Basically, allowing you to set out your own starting point then allowing you to make your own money.
try it with a few facilities and see how it goes.

This sounds very similar to an old Cities:Skylines challenge. Plan your entire layout with infinite cash while paused, then run the game until the city collapses. In this case, it's set up everything with unlimited cash, then set cash to 0 and see if you can make money once your park is opened.