How to attract visitors to an enclosure?

[omenriga82]

Hi all,

I'm really enjoying this game...really fun, instructive, impressive graphics and animal variety. I just started my first zoo...nothing special but i'm trying to expand it slowly. There is a thing that I dont understand: visitors are concentrated at the first encolsures of my park...the ones that are the most close to the entrance.

My last additions are a Oryx and a Tapir enclosures, but it seems they do not attract visitors. I made some pathways modifications and moved energy generators to have less negative impact but I still have a limited number of persons on this encolsures. I tried to add info point or food store but they have no impact.

Is there any tip I can use to attract them?

Thanks for the help!

[ta_antygona]

1st thing could be that you didn't let enough time pass. Some of your guests were probably already leaving when you added another enclosure, so you have t wait for more people.
Another thing is, if your guests have to walk too far, they will give up when they get too tired, thirsty and leave the zoo. Place a lot of benches, and asyour first enclosure it is alway beter to start off with a multi-species one, I ususally start off with a Savannah enclosure, Ostrich, warthog, zebra :) it will attract a good amount of people. if you dont have enough CC go for peafowls, and avoid meet-eating animals when you start - hope it helps.
Oh and I had a big issue with guests being hungry but not wanting to eat or drink, it's only after you reach around 400 visitors in your zoo, that they start eating!

[omenriga82]

Hi,
thanks for the tip! My zoo have 1000 visitors at the moment but as i said the are concentrated at the first anclosures which are Black wildebeest, Aardvark, African Buffalo, and a couple of Tortoise.
I placed some benches around the park as you suggested but still have not much visitors at the new enclosures which indeed are far away from the entrance. I will try to wait as you said.

I saw that there are pick-nick benches but when i try to put them on the ground i cant place them...is there any requirement?

[Moving Target]

Picnic benches can only be placed on a pathway but you can make a fake picnic area of grass by making a plaza using the ALIGN TO GRID option in the path menu and use either of the two NATURAL path options (not the ones with the green streak in the middle because that has a sand texture) then paint them with the terrain tool. The shot below shows a plaza made from a mix of stone path and natural path painted with grass texture (where the picnic benches are)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1997498651

[omenriga82]

Thanks! This is a very helpfull tip!