Donatio Bins not working

[kgkong]

Donation bins at this exhibit don't seem to be gathering any donations at all. I've never had this issue where I never got a donation in a bin, except when you obviously place them too far away from an animal, exhibit, habitat or educational thingy.

I've tried deleting and placing new ones, moving them around, etc. The original donation bin actually snagged about 30 bucks in donations but following that I hadn't seen more in it. All other donation bins are collecting donations, the usual amount.

Guest happiness seems pretty good. It's a small zoo, fairly fresh, in franchise mode. All the meters are green, and there's only a couple of yellow guest comments. Guests have money and haven't needed to stop at any ATMs at all.

Screenshot
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1983302840

[MavAriK]

i started a new zoo and am noticing this too

[kgkong]

At this point now, no new bins are collecting any donations at all. Guests will walk up to them, and then walk away but not donate.

[MrHappy]

It's possible that you're placing too many of them. I don't spam donation boxes ever. Usually just put one by each info board. On exhibits though, where you may have an info board on each of the four sides, I might usually just put two donation bins.

[kgkong]

Originally posted by MrHappy:

It's possible that you're placing too many of them. I don't spam donation boxes ever. Usually just put one by each info board. On exhibits though, where you may have an info board on each of the four sides, I might usually just put two donation bins.

No, it's not an issue of too many. If it was too many, I'd have tiny ass amounts of donations in each bin. But the bins I showed in the screenshot do not collect any. Nor do any new bins that I place. The game is pretty broken given I can only make money off ONE habitat in all my franchise zoos.

[MrHappy]

Have you researched the exhibits and put the extra stuff in? That might help.

[Kajsa_Kavat]

2 things to keep in mind:

- Exhibits aren't huge money makers and sometimes guest don't use the nearest bin to donate but instead go to the next habitat, guess that's got something to do with the path they want to take, so don't forget to check the ones surrounding that exhibit too.

- Donations reset every year, so be sure to check at the end of the year, there might just not be anything in January yet.

And what MrHappy said about education

[Moving Target]

I just placed a couple of new donation bins at peak view points of my Indian Elephanr habitat and got £190.00 donations in one of them almost immediately - so still working as intended

[kgkong]

Okay, the not donating at that particular time might make some sense in the one instance of this happening in the zoo I took the screenshot from.
Research however, has never had an impact on no donations versus donations. Only in how much and how frequently people donate. I'm usually able to pull in enough money off a snake exhibit with a donation bin to keep my zoo running even while I plan out and build up my next habitats and exhibit centers.

I sped up time and passed by 2 years quickly, and all the donations I got were at the one habitat. I make sure that when I see $0.00 for donations that it isn't Jan or otherwise early in the year. However, $0.00 in donations from Jun through to Dec is unusual. Randomly placed donation bins also never seemed to catch the odd delayed donations, which I have noticed happen with exhibits (more so when there are several in a smallish area it is more frequent to happen).

But I've watched guests actually walk up to the exhibit window, move to the next window, and in the process they'd stop at the donation bin and then move on.