Population control donating ALL of the animals in a pen

[Elfanara]

I got the exhibit control hub and set it for 10 males and 10 females. Then I enabled the "clear excess animals" option. Now whichever pen I set an exhibit control on, it gets rid of ALL the animals in that pen, no matter age, gender, etc. Why is this happening? I want to be able to keep the population of a pen steady without having to manually do it all the time.

[Awkeye]

Hey, this sounds like it could be a bug. Are you on the discord? The best thing for us would be to take a look at your save.

[Mittens]

This is happening to me too. Overnight I had a full zoo with almost all of the dinosaurs in the DLC and now I have only three pens with anything left :/ absolutely terrible bug and I'm so broken hearted

[ReTRoBuTioN54]

it happens as soon as I click on the clear excess on exhibit control otherwise I have to pray for pop hub to work which it does poorly

[Mittens]

Originally posted by ReTRoBuTioN54:

it happens as soon as I click on the clear excess on exhibit control otherwise I have to pray for pop hub to work which it does poorly

Yup! They wiped my whole park in one day once I clicked it but it was in combination with the exhibit control because I had it turned on the whole time and they didnt do it until I had the exhibit control and turned on remove excess animals. I had it set to have 10 of each in every pen and they removed EVERYTHING.

[ubersnaps]

I had this exact same issue last night. My zoo was thriving and I unlocked this building and immediately put it to work. I did exactly what everyone in this thread did and Noah's-Ark'd my zoo with 2 of every variant then toggled the "Clear Excess". The pop managers should have only needed to pull a few from each pen.

Then everything was empty. It was really disheartening. I went from 5k visitors a day to 100.

[Obiwan]

Let's build a dungeon has made me interested in LBAZ and all it's DLC but this thread aswell as several recent threads on the same topic are making concerned of whether i wish to purchase.

There are several posts with the same Dev making an appearance one where they note the issue and another where they seemingly dismiss it and say "there is a building to fix that later" - so with no patch and no confirmation that the issue is resolved or being looked at - recommendation to basically have the same result several people are now describing - i 1 button press zoo wipe.

That really doesn't sit right with me because these recent pots are indications of where the game stands right now and this very blase approach to something so utterly ruinous for anyone who sinks anytime into the game seems very very dismissive.

I fullly appreciate the team will be working on Dungeon but i also saw the last update explicitly stated "we still have big plans for Zoo" so is that true? has that sentiment changed now dungeon demo is out?

Can anyone help answer some of these questions as both myself and a few friends have been eyeballin LBAZ ready to purchase but this post alongside the post beside it are concerning.

[ubersnaps]

Originally posted by Obiwan:

Let's build a dungeon has made me interested in LBAZ and all it's DLC but this thread aswell as several recent threads on the same topic are making concerned of whether i wish to purchase.

There are several posts with the same Dev making an appearance one where they note the issue and another where they seemingly dismiss it and say "there is a building to fix that later" - so with no patch and no confirmation that the issue is resolved or being looked at - recommendation to basically have the same result several people are now describing - i 1 button press zoo wipe.

That really doesn't sit right with me because these recent pots are indications of where the game stands right now and this very blase approach to something so utterly ruinous for anyone who sinks anytime into the game seems very very dismissive.

I fullly appreciate the team will be working on Dungeon but i also saw the last update explicitly stated "we still have big plans for Zoo" so is that true? has that sentiment changed now dungeon demo is out?

Can anyone help answer some of these questions as both myself and a few friends have been eyeballin LBAZ ready to purchase but this post alongside the post beside it are concerning.

I found some answers in their active Discord community and also posed my own question there. Tonight I am working through reviving my zoo and the bounce back isn't difficult to get back into the full swing. I still pulled the trigger to pick up both DLCs in the sale today. Despite the set back, I enjoy this cozy zoo designer/manager with the funky animal fusions and I'm particularly excited for the Aquarium DLC. ><>

I'm willing to admit that I didn't know enough about the building before I enabled the settings. A lot of this game is discovery by trial, observation, and error, which I'm not adverse to in games, but this a bit of a brutal lesson if it is one. So far the building seems to be behaving as I play tonight? Certainly going to avoid the 'clear excess' filter and manually remove animals until I figure it out.

[Obiwan]

Originally posted by ubersnaps:

Originally posted by Obiwan:

Let's build a dungeon has made me interested in LBAZ and all it's DLC but this thread aswell as several recent threads on the same topic are making concerned of whether i wish to purchase.

There are several posts with the same Dev making an appearance one where they note the issue and another where they seemingly dismiss it and say "there is a building to fix that later" - so with no patch and no confirmation that the issue is resolved or being looked at - recommendation to basically have the same result several people are now describing - i 1 button press zoo wipe.

That really doesn't sit right with me because these recent pots are indications of where the game stands right now and this very blase approach to something so utterly ruinous for anyone who sinks anytime into the game seems very very dismissive.

I fullly appreciate the team will be working on Dungeon but i also saw the last update explicitly stated "we still have big plans for Zoo" so is that true? has that sentiment changed now dungeon demo is out?

Can anyone help answer some of these questions as both myself and a few friends have been eyeballin LBAZ ready to purchase but this post alongside the post beside it are concerning.

I found some answers in their active Discord community and also posed my own question there. Tonight I am working through reviving my zoo and the bounce back isn't difficult to get back into the full swing. I still pulled the trigger to pick up both DLCs in the sale today. Despite the set back, I enjoy this cozy zoo designer/manager with the funky animal fusions and I'm particularly excited for the Aquarium DLC. ><>

I'm willing to admit that I didn't know enough about the building before I enabled the settings. A lot of this game is discovery by trial, observation, and error, which I'm not adverse to in games, but this a bit of a brutal lesson if it is one. So far the building seems to be behaving as I play tonight? Certainly going to avoid the 'clear excess' filter and manually remove animals until I figure it out.

Kind of you to speak up but it would be nice if you could provide those answers and questions please?

Thank you !

[ubersnaps]

To start, the Discord has some activity and I mostly found information from digging through past conversations in there. The most informative posts I have found have been threads on reddit. There are a few players who are active in their Discord today, mostly just new players asking their own questions though. If you're wondering if the community is "active enough", I'd suggest joining it.

As for my specific question/experience on this building, no one engaged with my question in Discord. So there is no answer to share.

[Kensho]

Is this still an issue? I may want to refund if I am gonna run into these same type of problems.

[Obiwan]

Originally posted by Kensho:

Is this still an issue? I may want to refund if I am gonna run into these same type of problems.

i do not know because i play an evil campaign so i do not get the hub i get the evil version and it works just fine.