Zoo went bankrupt in an instant?

[Gekte]

Not sure if I should file a bug report mainly because I don't know what happend:
I was playing in franchise mode and had 4 animal exhibits set up -had a decent zoo going that averaged 4000-5000 profit in a year. All of a sudden I went from 297,xxx,xx to -100 million. my cash flow doesn't report on what happend and I have not used the loan function as of yet. Any ideas if this might be human error or if I should file a report?

[Chrmdfreak]

Randomly losing miljard of dollars

I had a pretty good running zoo going with rougly 40.000.000 in my bank to only all of a sudden get a message that I was "low on cash"..... which was understatement of the year because my saldo suddenly had gone to -300.000.000.000 give or take a few thousand

I decided to just let the zoo run and do research in the mean time as the zoo was still profitable and I couldn't do anything even if I had taken out some loans. For a while the balance slowly went up; very very slowly I might add I had maybe earned 100k of which still left me in a deep deposite of course; only to then see the balance drop to -600.000.000.000

Has anyone had this happen before and what can one do to prevent it? Are there any money cheats at all in the game to at least save all the work I already did on the zoo?

[jfoytek]

you lost nearly 101 million in the a finite amount of time I am pretty sure you can take the human error out of the equation lol.... its a known bug...

[Arandur87]

Report it. Happened tons of times to other people as well, certainly a bug. Your file will help solving it.

[kitte-94]

From rich to poor

I guess that this is a bug. But I haven´t got any money problem until now. I am on the 30th year and The money only went up up up. and suddenly, 31 billion - on the account....Guess I have to start on a new zoo?

[DasDave {Ger}]

Found the almost same problem in another Thread :/ sry for u
maybe u will reach the + again if u wait ?
but y, i think otherwise u have to start new

[kitte-94]

I guess the animals don´t get food if I don´t have any money? I already got animals that starved beacuse they don´t understand that the got food in the habitat or the zookeepers don´t care to refill the food.

[DasDave {Ger}]

yep, u have to pay for the food :/ depends on the kind of food if u take quali 1 or 2 or 3

[Monopoly Johnson]

Have the exact same issue. Just logged in and suddenly BLAM -57 billion in upkeep costs. No idea what caused it.

[Whale hunter]

Bleeding cash, first game :(

Hi guys, help me out with getting my zoo up and running, I've built 1 enclosure and added 4 animals to it.

I 've bought the starter buildings, like vets, research, etc etc 7? of them.
and i have added a toilet, food stall and drinks stall with 2 ATM and 4 donation bins.

My entry fees are £6 and £4

but I'm bleeding money, any tips?

[Witchy]

Originally posted by kitte-94:

From rich to poor

I guess that this is a bug. But I haven´t got any money problem until now. I am on the 30th year and The money only went up up up. and suddenly, 31 billion - on the account....Guess I have to start on a new zoo?

You can put all your animals into the trade center and start a new zoo. It sucks as you won't have money to make all the enclosures at first, but at least you won't lose the hard to find ones. And they can wait in the trade center without losing welfare or aging til you're ready for them.

[Witchy]

Remove the food and drink stalls, fire the vendors.
1 each of vet, mechanic, keeper, caretaker and security
1 each of the buildings
Put up an education board near the enclosure with info on the animal
Dono bin next to that.

Expand SLOWLY

[jfoytek]

https://youtu.be/DGsu3Ejw5n0?t=1063

^^^^Layout I am using in my new zoo to keep the staff centralized and most efficient...

Tip 1- Don't make Habitat barriers with ingame Barriers use Logs or Rocks or anything else as your mechanic doesn't need to fix these, that way Mechanic is only fixing water and power!!!

Tip 2- Don't put speakers and signs within reach of the humans put them inside of the enclosure near to the viewing area out of arms reach so no vandalism occurs! No need for Security Guard and less for your Mechanic to do so he is fixing water and power only....

Tip 3- Don't build the Drink shop till you get 300+ Guests
Food shop till 500+ guests
Balloon Shop till 800 + Guests
Info stand till 1000+ Guests

Tip 4- Vets, Mechanics, Keepers start with a salary of 1100, but they are perfectly happy with that salary being 1050.

Tip 5- Get atleast 2 Research's done on the animal in your Habitat before building a new one!

Tip 6 Place a Power and Water plant out in the begining while paused before starting your zoo then build a Raised Walkway all the way around the edge of the Power forming a huge circle... Then divide that area up into 4-6 enclosures.... Of course put your other staff buildings there and you will have a very central and efficient set up for your zoo to start off of....

[AlbyTross]

I suddenly have -$715,970,727,595.27

I had over 400k, was running a very successful big zoo that I spent 30 hours building underground AND underwater viewing areas and as I was working on my reptile house/aviary I suddenly had insufficient funds, looked down and saw this
Sooo a little frustrated but it is a beta, and I would have had to rebuild completely anyway when full game is released hahah.

Has anyone else had this happen?
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/777358858186277314/62075F13F07A17D2056CF38959FB10F5D3A07108/

[dorianmode]

Yes - this gets posted regularly.

[AlbyTross]

Ohhhh okay. Is there a fix orr do I just have to restart my zoo