How to get out of debt?

[coffee]

I'm playing franchise and I got myself in debt, not sure how to get out of it. Any tips would be useful.

[Moosegun]

how much debt
how much you losing each year
what are you main expenses (picture of yearly finances would be good)
how much cc do you have
roughly what animals do you have, do you have excess
are you breeding?

[coffee]

Originally posted by Moosegun:

how much debt
how much you losing each year
what are you main expenses (picture of yearly finances would be good)
how much cc do you have
roughly what animals do you have, do you have excess
are you breeding?

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My cash keeps going up and down but stays in minus, I took loans since I thought that would help but now I can't pay them off (2000 and 5000, yeah I'm stupid but I'm still new to this game and I have no clue what I'm doing)

I have I think 8 species? Some of them are breeding and some aren't.

edit: I forgot to add that my Thompson's gazelles keep getting stressed even tho I added barrieres and 3 shelters and protestors keep coming.

[Moosegun]

How many exhibits? Do you have any spare lions or other large animals?

[Kajsa_Kavat]

I don't know if Thompson's Gazelles like two way glass, but don't forget to put up do not disturb signs, they have a radius which you can check in the security heat map.

Also on first glance those two transformers seem to be very close together, they aren't very expensive, but try to build as few as possible to reduce upkeep and research renewable tech fast to replace them.

[legione]

under the finances tab click on ongoing expanses to get more detailed infos, check your refound, animal food and workforce expanse to find whats wrong with your zoo.
for the gazelle ,do you try the one way glass or the not disturb signs ?

[coffee]

Originally posted by Moosegun:

How many exhibits? Do you have any spare lions or other large animals?

Nope, no large animals. I have 2 exhibits, one with yellow anacondas and one with giant centipedes.

[coffee]

Originally posted by legione:

under the finances tab click on ongoing expanses to get more detailed infos, check your refound, animal food and workforce expanse to find whats wrong with your zoo.
for the gazelle ,do you try the one way glass or the not disturb signs ?

I tried don't disturb sings and they didn't work so I sold all the gazelles..

[Moosegun]

Originally posted by .h.y.p.n.o.s.i.s.:

Originally posted by Moosegun:

How many exhibits? Do you have any spare lions or other large animals?

Nope, no large animals. I have 2 exhibits, one with yellow anacondas and one with giant centipedes.

ok, the issue is you have no cash, and not a lot of way to generate that much more. Exhibits are great but you dont have the money to buy more. You also dont have any large animals you could sell to generate cash. First thing i would do is sell all the animals you have that you dont need, any excess, this will reduce food cost. A couple more exhibits (scorpions) would solve your problem, a good gold pair can make 10k per year for each exhibit. The issue with anacondas is they have a slow birth rate, scorpions are great because they live a long time and have lots of offspring, they can also hold 15+ animals before they need removing.

[Kiyohime]

if you are focusing on exhibits. get fast breeding ones like titan beetles, hercules beetles, poison dart frogs. sell the offpsring for cash. make sure to check on them as they can cause overcrowding.

also start with Tortoises, Peafowls, Ostriches if you don't have too many CC yet.

[flu007]

Also, don't forget about donation boxes. Some well-placed ones with an education board and/or speaker near them, start turning a nice profit pretty much right away.

[Splint]

Did you remember to set entry price to the Zoo a little higher ? after you get some animals guests will gladly pay a little more to enter. not much more..but try with $3-5 to start with. if no one complains about tickects..try adding 1 more $. dont raise it too high then they will not pay and enter the Zoo. In my big Zoo Im charging $65 now for entry.

Also feeding your animals are very expensive. try and sell some animals so you only have pairs left. 1 male 1 female. if they need more to be happy social then dont go under that limit. And try and fire some people if you have too many. Also dont train your staff in the beginning...theres no need for it and they will want higher salery. if you have 3-5 star staff...fire them and hire 1 star

[legione]

Originally posted by .h.y.p.n.o.s.i.s.:

I tried don't disturb sings and they didn't work so I sold all the gazelles..

well usually when uve money issues removing animals its the last thing u should do, and herbivores should be on the rock bottom of your list.

[Nanbab]

Im having the exact same problem I keep loosing cash fast and thats with 2 snow leopards and one exhibit that have iguanas also have donations boxes enough staff to cover whats there but the cash stays in the minus also tried loans and cant get a profit

[Krall]

Cut costs, staff, heating, etc.

Advertise to get more guests.

Increase guest happiness.

Originally posted by Nanbab:

Im having the exact same problem I keep loosing cash fast and thats with 2 snow leopards and one exhibit that have iguanas also have donations boxes enough staff to cover whats there but the cash stays in the minus also tried loans and cant get a profit

Snow leopards are usually cash cows. I still have a small zoo, but they built everything I have.

[Nanbab]

yeah ive tried everything i can think of and i keep loosing cash