Toy enrichment

[sjberry3]

My Giraffes are fully researched and I have placed lots of toy enrichment but it’s still saying there isn’t enough. but there only two items in toy enrichment to put down and no matter how many I put down it doesn’t go over 30%

[Moving Target]

That's planet zoo for you lol, the only other enrichment you can get for them I think is from the mixed species buff but everyone is pretty much resigned to having miserable giraffes
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1981236074
Giraffe enrichment 65%

[Transform]

Originally posted by sarahberry:

My Giraffes are fully researched and I have placed lots of toy enrichment but

Originally posted by Moving Target:

That's planet zoo for you lol, the only other enrichment you can get for them I think is from the mixed species buff but everyone is pretty much resigned to having miserable giraffes
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1981236074
Giraffe enrichment 65%

That's because they're bored of the enrichment you've given them. You have to remove it and place it back in at a later date. This will increase their enjoyment of it.

[MrHappy]

A lot of things are different depending on Franchise Mode or Sandbox Mode. People should be clear. It doesn't surprise me one bit that there are only a couple of enrichment items in Franchise Mode.

[Zanika]

It's a bit bogus. Gharials are the same way in that there's only one food enrichment item (blood pumpkin) so they are perpetually grumpy after they've gotten bored with it because there is nothing else to put out. Same with the great apes -- there aren't enough toys to put out to keep bonobos happy, and certainly not enough to rotate in and out of habitats as they get bored.

[Abetterolive]

Yeah, frankly the toy enrichment system sucks and I hope they ammend it. So, with toy enrichment (but not food enrichment) it doesn't increase their enrichment to place multiples of the same toy. Each toy type has an enrichment value and if you look in the enrichment tab in an animal's panel, you can see the number values of the toys you've placed in its habitat, and the total value they need to add up to in order to fill the animal's needs to 100%. Each toy only adds its value once, so placing more of the same does nothing.

The terrible part is that those values go down (rather quickly) for that specific animal over time the longer they've been in its enclosure. This is supposed to represent the animal getting bored of them over time.
For animals with lots of toy options, you're supposed to only put in enough toys to reach the toy enrichment need and leave the rest for later - you need to keep going back to check the animal's enrichment tab and when those numbers fall so low for that animal they no longer meet its toy enrichment need, you're supposed to remove them and replace them with a different set of "fresh" toys. And when those lose their value, you have to go back again and replace them with the old set of toys, which by that time will have their "novelty" back and will again fill the enrichment needs fully for awhile.

It's an awful, un-fun mechanic. But anyway, it only works if the animal has enough toy options that they can be switched around like that. With giraffes and several others, they have so few toy types that you need to put in all possible toys to fill their needs and when they get "bored" of those toys, there's nothing to replace them with. Like someone above said, putting compatible species together in the same habitat helps raise their enrichment a small amount for each species added but, like, maybe I don't want a giant safari with 9 species in it, maybe I just want a dang giraffe enclosure.

Sorry I can't help you with this problem, it's not your fault, it's the game's.

[Abetterolive]

Originally posted by Zanika:

It's a bit bogus. Gharials are the same way in that there's only one food enrichment item (blood pumpkin) so they are perpetually grumpy after they've gotten bored with it because there is nothing else to put out. Same with the great apes -- there aren't enough toys to put out to keep bonobos happy, and certainly not enough to rotate in and out of habitats as they get bored.

Totally agree about the apes, it's horrible. But you may be happy to know that food enrichment actually isn't like toy enrichment - it is its own thing and works differently and seperately - you can see both food enrichment and toy enrichment needs in the animal's enrichment tab. Food enrichment items' values don't decrease over time, and also multiples of the same item do add up.

So if you look at your gharial's enrichment tab and specifically their food enrichment need is not met, just drop more blood pumpkins and it will fill up. (If their toy enrichment need, shown below food enrichment need, is still not met then their overall enrichment bar still won't hit 100% though)

But another difference with food enrichment is that, unlike toys, more animals = higher food enrichment requirement. So if you had one blood pumpkin and that was enough for two gharials, but then they had babies and you see in their tabs that the food enrichment no longer meets the need, it's not because the item's value went down it's because the need went up. So, again, just plop down some more pumpkins :)