HUNGER and its a problem!

[Basically a salad]

FRANCHAISE GAMEPLAY

Hey I have been playing this game a lot lately and I have found a big problem and it seems like im not the only one. I am by no means a professionall so this might be invalid. I've had 4 different zoos with a mix veraity of animals, exhibits workers etc. I guess what im trying to say is that I have tested a lot of different methods to fix the problem.

The problem is hunger, eventually the animals will get hungry so what do we do? You assign a worker to feed the animal, this is best done by having 1 worker assign (work assignment) for 1 cage only and having 1 keeper hut close to the cage. this way the worker can go from the cage to the keeper hut in a fast paste.

But its no that simple, for some reasen the AI i'sent fast enough and forces me to drop a food enrichment or even assign another worker to the same job. So the outcome is 1 cage 1 keeper hut for 2 workers and a little now and then placing enrichment so they wont starve, this strategy is scary and expensive, you feel like you have no controll over the hunger the further you play the game because the AI will eventually fatigue or just not do what its supposed to do.

My soloution is to delete all the enrichmenets start over the game and replacing the foods, annoying because its boring, scary and I feel like im fixing a bug in the game, is this really the soloution or am I missing something, I know you could get more advanced workers but it dosent help enough even building a bigger keeper wont help.

So my conclusion is that the AI is not working like it supposted to do. I feel like the "keepers" or/and the "keeper hut" needs a fix/buff.

EXTRA I DID NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM ON MY 3TH SAVE AND MY FRIEND DIDNT HAVE THE PROBLEM ON HIS FIRST WORLD, MAYBE ITS A BUG ON THE DESERT WORLD SINCE THATS THE ONLY ONE WE ALL PLAY?

If you have any strategy that isent frustrating please let me know.
Ops. I know if you play the game reallllllllyyyyy slow you wont have this issue as much, but its still there.

[Jaggid Edje]

I assign my keepers in groups of habitats. Around 3 keepers to a work zone with 4 habitats, and it works just fine for me.

Large habitats with many different animals are the only exception, where I will often assign 2-4 keepers for a single large habitat (plus 1 or 2 small ones if they are nearby) and sometimes set half to feed only and half to clean only.

Other than that, place the food items all nearish the keeper entrance on those large habitats (if not all habitats) and use enrichment toys and water pipes placed near visitor viewing areas to draw the animals to the viewers. It helps the keepers keep up.

I have close to 350 hours played and I can't remember the last time I got an animal is hungry message yet I make large, multi-species habitats in all my larger zoos. The above strategies work.

[caesar_andy]

It is very likely, that your problem is bound to either walking-distance or staffroom aviability. If the energy of your keepers is low, they will just stop working until they could have a break. If no staffroom is aviable, they will start walking arround aimlessly.

This will happen emidiately. I have even seen a vet who took a box, with an ill animal in it, into the staff room. just because it was break-time for him.

So, make sure, you have a staff-room closeby. It is part of the keepers work-area. And it is not overcrowded by other employers.

[Nova]

It could be the work load is too great for 1 worker or your layout is poor placing keeper huts and staff rooms too far away or other habitats are causing issue and requiring the attention of your keeper.

[Moosegun]

Ok, so your conclusion is that the game is broken, my conclusion is you are doing it wrong. As people have said above, of course one employee cant do one habitat on his own. Are you not planning on giving them any time off? Best you report this, the old "AI does allow me to be a slave driver" bug......

I could give you loads of advice but to be honest, if you cant work out how to get one habitat working either go and watch loads of videos, play the tutorials, or if it is still possible get a refund.

[Noname]

i guess keepers behave like this in RL. starving animals can be the next keepers problem, my break is soon. ok so we fire the lazy employee, will the next one be better?... must be us and not the game

[mossaddiction]

If you have 2 keepers you should have 2 keeper huts only one keeper can fit into the small hut at a time meaning the other keeper has to wait then the animals have to wait .

[Helleborus]

Originally posted by mossaddiction:

If you have 2 keepers you should have 2 keeper huts only one keeper can fit into the small hut at a time meaning the other keeper has to wait then the animals have to wait .

I have the same problem. I guess this answer may solve the problem. I will try this.

I have also two keepers. The hut is in front of the enterance. The feeding plate is very close to enterance. The habitat was running good, even two babies were born without any problem. Suddenly my animals started to starve. I called the keeper but the keeper just came having a look without doing anything. Later on they were all died due to hunger. So sad. Moving animals didn’t help either.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by koffielatte:

Originally posted by mossaddiction:

If you have 2 keepers you should have 2 keeper huts only one keeper can fit into the small hut at a time meaning the other keeper has to wait then the animals have to wait .

I have the same problem. I guess this answer may solve the problem. I will try this.

I have also two keepers. The hut is in front of the enterance. The feeding plat is very close to enterance. The habitat was running good, even two babies were born without any problem. Suddenly my animals started to starve. I called the keeper but the keeper just came having a look without doing anything. Later on they were all died due to hunger. So sad. Moving animals didn’t help either.

If there is even a little bit of food in any one of the feeders or food enrichment the keeper won't feed them. Move around every single feed item in the habitat, there's probably one that's not accessible to the animals that still has food.
This can happen sometimes particularly with enrichment feeders that move around when the animals use them and moving them will reset them back to where they are placed.

[Helleborus]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Originally posted by koffielatte:

I have the same problem. I guess this answer may solve the problem. I will try this.

I have also two keepers. The hut is in front of the enterance. The feeding plat is very close to enterance. The habitat was running good, even two babies were born without any problem. Suddenly my animals started to starve. I called the keeper but the keeper just came having a look without doing anything. Later on they were all died due to hunger. So sad. Moving animals didn’t help either.

If there is even a little bit of food in any one of the feeders or food enrichment the keeper won't feed them. Move around every single feed item in the habitat, there's probably one that's not accessible to the animals that still has food.
This can happen sometimes particularly with enrichment feeders that move around when the animals use them and moving them will reset them back to where they are placed.

Thank you. Your answer makes sense. Indeed. The enrichment feeders are often thrown somewhere else. I haven’t thought of this. You have saved my zoo!!!

I was very sad when this happened. After this I stop playing this game. Almost went to give my first negative review to a game. lol

[Dom]

Originally posted by koffielatte:

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

If there is even a little bit of food in any one of the feeders or food enrichment the keeper won't feed them.

After this I stop playing this game. Almost went to give my first negative review to a game. lol

Planet Zoo definitely deserve negative reviews... look, that answer that was given to you is significant ! ... you have 10 animals in a habitat, you have ONE feeder with 500 grams of food .. your animals are hungry .. but NO .. the keepers won't feed them .. they will wait for these tiny bit of food to go .. .that is silly .. any real keeper would complete the feeders till there's enough for all hungry animals.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Dom:

Originally posted by koffielatte:

After this I stop playing this game. Almost went to give my first negative review to a game. lol

Planet Zoo definitely deserve negative reviews... look, that answer that was given to you is significant ! ... you have 10 animals in a habitat, you have ONE feeder with 500 grams of food .. your animals are hungry .. but NO .. the keepers won't feed them .. they will wait for these tiny bit of food to go .. .that is silly .. any real keeper would complete the feeders till there's enough for all hungry animals.

There's no such thing as a game where the AI does everything it "ought" to do. Performance is a huge limiter to how much they can dump on it. In all games we must learn how the AI works and play in a way that accounts for it. If that's dissatisfying to you then you have the wrong hobby.

In this instance, keepers will clean out food if they can and then feed, but if the feeder was not accessible to the animals it is also not accessible to the keeper to clean it out.

[Dom]

Don't be too nice with devs by finding ways to counter their design flaws

[Basically a salad]

Originally posted by Moosegun:

Ok, so your conclusion is that the game is broken, my conclusion is you are doing it wrong. As people have said above, of course one employee cant do one habitat on his own. Are you not planning on giving them any time off? Best you report this, the old "AI does allow me to be a slave driver" bug......

I could give you loads of advice but to be honest, if you cant work out how to get one habitat working either go and watch loads of videos, play the tutorials, or if it is still possible get a refund.

I get it, you like the game I do too okay. but lets be honest here the game has flaws, I feel like I have to do unreasonable things in order to have a working zoo. Im not complaining for the sake of complaining, im complaining because I think the devs can do better. And if you read again I wrote that I have tested different strategies, ive had 3 workers on 1 animal. but this isent the point, you are obviously missing the point and thats because you are close minded, so please see the whole picture before you make an uneccessary comment.