Recommendation :: Vet/Mechanic Research should be Franchise-wide

[QuadDamn]

One of the main turnoffs for me about the franchise mode is that the research is not franchise wide. It doesn't really make sense to me why it is tied to one particular zoo. I totally understand the money being tied to one specific zoo and the same with conversation credits being franchise wide.

[Willow Rivers]

No I don't agree, zoos are seperate and have their own research programs.

[Teska_Grav]

No, I don't understand that either, like OT. When you make a franchise, you share your experiences with each other, don't you?

[QuadDamn]

They are of the same franchise. In real life, if you had a franchise of zoos, you'd expect that your vets/researchers would share that knowledge with other zoos under your umbrella. Why wouldn't they?

I mean, I figure they are going for a more real-world approach to this game, like they did with Planet Coaster, so this recommendation makes sense to me.

[Maine's Own]

I agree to the OP, pretending every new zoo starts with less general knowledge than another one in the franchise doesn't make any sense.
I can see why they did it for the purpose of balancing out the game in later stages, though.

[hashimoto4life]

I did not know that as I only played one zoo. The research process is slow as it is and now we have to do it for every zoo? Uhmmm bummer.

[Arandur87]

Originally posted by hashimoto4life:

I did not know that as I only played one zoo. The research process is slow as it is and now we have to do it for every zoo? Uhmmm bummer.

Slow? Not really. By the end of Beta my last Zoo had about 20k stable income. I could have build advanced research centers and pay 6 vets to only do research.
But my 1 dedicated researcher allready did everything he needed to in an acceptable time.

Money at one point is no issue. With money comes more staff, with more staff comes more research.
After you build your 4th/5th habitat, your set for a group of researching staff and be done in no time.

[Blutvogt]

Best solution would be to reduce the needed research time by 15% for each research you got in another zoo. So you keep the game mechanic alive but you can save time and can focus more at other mechanics.

[cerealfruitcake]

I would personally like to see money & research transfer over, it feels appropriate for franchise mode.

[Wh♂♂par]

Originally posted by 鳩利空 -Blutvogt-:

Best solution would be to reduce the needed research time by 15% for each research you got in another zoo. So you keep the game mechanic alive but you can save time and can't focus more at other mechanics.

This I like a lot. Best of both worlds.

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by CerealFruitcakes:

I would personally like to see money & research transfer over, it feels appropriate for franchise mode.

It makes no sense though. Franchise is multiple owners running seperate business but leasing the name of the franchise.

Like the fast food stores in real life, you can buy into a franchise and run your own business while leasing the name of the corporation. Just because you are a franchise owner of say a Burger King does not mean you get access to the millions that the corportation is worth. You are seperate but leasing the name.

Same thing here. Each zoo is like a different owner running it but using the corporation name.

[Wh♂♂par]

And on point of the research, those franchise partakers then have to do their own research if another one found out about it?

Money, yes, even in gameplay would it be too easy - but you could maybe implement a loan with a smaller minimum rate from your franchise zoos.

[Sheetso]

Its an absolute gamebraker for me to be honest. I already made also a thread here with same topic..... I understand the money cause it rly would feel like sandbox mode after your first successfully zoo. But i dont understand the research.

It takes a lot of time until you research everything to build your zoo like YOU WANT (in franchise mode with earned money and no thx i dont care about sandbox mode) and not what you can do because only of this limitation.

To start every zoo with the SAME items all time over and over makes no sense for me. I definitively would prefer to take my researches over to another zoo. so i could make all my zoo´s with different "themes" from the beginning.
But as it is now, i always have to build the same small zoo over and over, than wait until a stable income and all researches , to remove and destroy everything again and be able to start from scratch with the new researched buildings for a beautifull zoo as I wished from the beginning..... no way!!!!! thx but no thx

[cerealfruitcake]

Originally posted by Willow Rivers:

Originally posted by CerealFruitcakes:

I would personally like to see money & research transfer over, it feels appropriate for franchise mode.

It makes no sense though. Franchise is multiple owners running seperate business but leasing the name of the franchise.

Like the fast food stores in real life, you can buy into a franchise and run your own business while leasing the name of the corporation. Just because you are a franchise owner of say a Burger King does not mean you get access to the millions that the corportation is worth. You are seperate but leasing the name.

Same thing here. Each zoo is like a different owner running it but using the corporation name.

Burger King doesn't hold back recipes and force franchise owners to figure it out themselves because they haven't researched recipes yet.

[Prometheus]

Something I noticed was the Advanced Research bar was maintained between Zoos. Your vets do Advanced Research if they continue to research an animal after everything is unlocked. I never completely filled it but I suspect it levels up and provides escalating bonuses which are franchise wide. I predict a buff to research speed is included.