WHY IS MAKING MONEY IN FRANCHISE MODE SO IMPOSSIBLE

[Winter]

FFS it's harder than in real life.

[Alphakuh]

Money or credits? I think its both easy

[Blindsorcerer]

takes a bit to get things rolling but then its really easy.

[Holyvision]

Once you get the game mechanics down money is super easy in this game and no challenge at all.

[§avaģє]

I have like 1m cash and 100k cps... XD It's not hard, gotta figure out how the market works.

[Willow Rivers]

Not hard at all. Build and expand slowly then the money will roll in.

[Lady Tiamat]

I was having difficulty but you just need to work on getting one habitat up to a nice quality with a few good animals before working on the next once you have about 3 different species it gets easier.
Just don't hike the prices up to quickly to start or people won't visit, and only increase the price a little ($2-$5) when it tells you that visitors think it's too cheep.

Oh and remember to add donation boxes (Guest Facilities) near your viewing areas for a little extra cash. :)

The information centre is good as well, as adoption packs are %100 Profit.

[morganruttle]

your probably not adding enough donation bins. Have one like 3 per exhibit some I add more.

[Winter]

I have 3 exhibits, 2 small animal exhibits, a few shops, donation boxes everywhere. I cant make hardly enough money to have a proper staff. If i go above $6 a ticket, people dont even show up. I haven't got over 450 people yet. Also my education rating is terrible even though I placed stuff EVERYWHERE.

[Holyvision]

Sounds like you are building too fast, expand very slowly. Shops only add when you get the guest count to support them. Information building at about 300 guests, don't start food and drink until 800+

[Lady Tiamat]

Originally posted by Winter:

I have 3 exhibits, 2 small animal exhibits, a few shops, donation boxes everywhere. I cant make hardly enough money to have a proper staff. If i go above $6 a ticket, people dont even show up. I haven't got over 450 people yet. Also my education rating is terrible even though I placed stuff EVERYWHERE.

Don't worry too much about education only one per habitat near the viewing ares is fine until you have a bit more money. you don't want to high an electric bill. Check your Zoo costs to see where you are losing money. It sometimes helps.

[hana]

its not hard at all if u know what ur doing

[Winter]

Originally posted by yosh.:

its not hard at all if u know what ur doing

I have over a hundred hours in Planet Coaster. I played the beta for hours. I've played the launch game for hours. I know how to play the game.

[LotR[Henchman]]

Originally posted by Winter:

I have 3 exhibits, 2 small animal exhibits, a few shops, donation boxes everywhere. I cant make hardly enough money to have a proper staff. If i go above $6 a ticket, people dont even show up. I haven't got over 450 people yet. Also my education rating is terrible even though I placed stuff EVERYWHERE.

Ignore the education rating for now - isn't that important imo, at least not at that moment.

A pic would be great to try to see what you did wrong/right.

Personally i run into a few more problems with the current build than during the beta.

But overall it's still about getting a few selected (beautiful, low space requirement, no water requirement, fitting toward your natural biome to not need additional heating/cooling). Scram everything as close as you can together in the beginning -> 4 enclosures - 1 power supply works fine - and most of the time 1 staffer for each job is enough for 3-4 enclosures.

If you failed with that you might want to get a loan and try to adjust by adding other animals (hog the trading screen and hit reload on money options of nessecary to gain a pair of more interesting animals).

It also can take some time - animal breeding will naturally increase how many interesting animals your zoo houses. Which can help to some degree. So hanging in until you get the first offsprings sometimes is good enough.

[bigdadyrabbit]

What they said above.....start small and work your way up....be sure the acknowledge the visitors that pop into your zoo....you can acknowledge 5 per day and you get 20 conservation credits for each one. They show up at the top left of your screen. Close your vendor stands until guest count rises. That way you don't have those salaries to worry about. Save up your conservation credits until you can buy something like peafowls that breed like crazy then either sell them or release them into the wild....make sure to keep a breeding pair....it will take several hours of playing like this before you can add better animals and exhibits. That is how I started now I have about 15 different species and over a million cash credits and 3000 conservation credits. It becomes almost too easy .....

[Urist McGamer]

Start small with reptile/arthropod exhibits, take loans responsibly where you can and start with some cheap animals like Aardvarks or Indian Peafowls. Mated pairs of poison frogs reproduce quickly and you can sell the youth for quick cash ~$1k per hatching (4 frogs).