Best animals to begin Franchise Mode to get Conservation Coins

[DarthQuell]

What animals have helped y'all to get CCs for better animals?

What helped me start were some red rugged lemurs. Then I upgraded to a pair of lions (very cheap, but they still breed a lot)

[Nioell]

Nile Monitors...super cheap (at least at the time haven't played franchise in ages) even for a good breeding group of 1 male and 2 females and you get 600-1000 cc for releasing the offspring form just one birth. So if you get a young group that has good fertility and longevity genes you can get at least 3k-6k cc out of those three animals before they die and they don't have high food costs either.

[MrHappy]

It’s kinda designed so you have to build up. What I mean is that the easiest animals to begin with will only earn limited CCs. Such as Peafowl. They breed like crazy but they’re cheap. So you can sell a lot of them but not for much. As above the Nile Monitors will fetch a good price but the breeding cycle is quite slow.

I found the best thing to do was put 2 habitats in your franchise to get the people in (and the donations and shop profit) then as soon as you can afford it make a 3rd hab for Snow Leopards. Cats will be a good earner. From there you can perhaps move to tigers or bears.

Importantly. Make sure you have 8 or 10 exhibits. These will bring the money in when you sell the young.

The thing is. If you run out of money it doesn’t matter how many CCs you have. Your zoo will go bust.

[juliewhite80]

I always start with a double exhibit - giant forest scorpion and Desert hairy scorpion and then add in lions. They breed quick and you can sell the offspring to repay any loans you might need...and then after that they ramp up your conservation credits. Never have an issue. Also add in a drink shop and then something that's quick breeding like snow leopards

[MrHappy]

Originally posted by juliewhite80:

I always start with a double exhibit - giant forest scorpion and Desert hairy scorpion and then add in lions. They breed quick and you can sell the offspring to repay any loans you might need...and then after that they ramp up your conservation credits. Never have an issue. Also add in a drink shop and then something that's quick breeding like snow leopards

The first time you play franchise though, it's very very difficult to have enough CC for an entire pride of lions and if you don't have the correct number their happiness is affected.

You are absolutely right about the breeding though, due to so many females. Money and CC wise though, for those who can't quickly get to lions, Tigers and Snow Leopards will help as you only need 1 male and 1 female.

[Jynn]

i like to start with frogs. they have lots of babies at once, so easy cash flow at the start.

Habitat animal wise, i like zebra and ostrich

[MrHappy]

Totally agree with frogs, it's almost a constant income. Snakes are also good, they don't have many babies but they do fetch good money.

[AdahnGorion]

I usually get 1 habitat with low cost animals that also breed alot
Then I get two exhibitions with again, animals that breed alot, frogs etc.

Then I wait 5-10 years, sell it all, delete everything and build up a new structure.
(don´t overdo it, start with like 3-5 habitats at most, maybe less and don´t put high attaction animals close to the entrence, then 2-4 exhibitions) and you should be good.

It is time consuming for me however, because I sometimes want to build way to much from scratch, but there are many good blueprints on the workshop or atleast for some stuff, if you want to speed up

If you don´t care about looks, then you don´t even have to do what I suggest, then you just start off with low attaction animals that breed alot and work your way up step by step.
Just remember, that big animals and alot of large carnivores, can cost an arm and an leg.

[Jynn]

another good one is pangolins, and other highly endangered animals that net a lot of CC when you release them to the wild. Pangolins are very cheap to feed and while they only have 1 baby at a time, they don't require a lot of space, don't cost much to feed, and release for decent CC due to their endangered status

big animal wise, i've noticed in my 27 year old zoo that jaguars, snow leopards and bengal tigers are popping out 3 cubs at once constantly, so that's a nice bit of income

snow leopards aren't too bad to feed, so they might be an option, but tigers definitely need to be in an established zoo because their feed cost is very high

[Nioell]

Originally posted by With Faceless Panda:

Originally posted by juliewhite80:

I always start with a double exhibit - giant forest scorpion and Desert hairy scorpion and then add in lions. They breed quick and you can sell the offspring to repay any loans you might need...and then after that they ramp up your conservation credits. Never have an issue. Also add in a drink shop and then something that's quick breeding like snow leopards

The first time you play franchise though, it's very very difficult to have enough CC for an entire pride of lions and if you don't have the correct number their happiness is affected.

You are absolutely right about the breeding though, due to so many females. Money and CC wise though, for those who can't quickly get to lions, Tigers and Snow Leopards will help as you only need 1 male and 1 female.

Cheetahs, don't foget those. They're cheap to keep, not like lions who drive you into the ground with their insane feeding costs and they usually have way more cubs than tigers and snow leos, which also grow up fast.

[MrHappy]

^ Yes I keep hearing that as well, must try it. Never made a Cheetah hab.

[DarthQuell]

Ok, cool. Now, what do y'all suggest for new players? I still suggest red lemurs

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by darthquell:

Ok, cool. Now, what do y'all suggest for new players? I still suggest red lemurs

Peafowl and pangolin

But then again, it depends on what you want, if you want a theme or have it regional specific, etc.. then you should talk about that first

[Jynn]

Originally posted by darthquell:

Ok, cool. Now, what do y'all suggest for new players? I still suggest red lemurs

i agree on peafowl and pangolin. Ostrich are decent too, zebra can be good.

[Themule08]

have not played in a while.. but I breed African dogs and amassed so many CCs I never knew what to do with them.. I had 6 going at a time, not sure if it is still ok but cousins were never inbreed. So as long as you name them in a way you can tell who mated with who, you basically sold off the ok ones, and kept the really good ones. After about 3 or 4 cycles you would have 90% genetic monsters, which sold for a crap load of CCs.

[sandelwood16]

African wild dogs are a great starter, a pair will have around 5-6 pups in every litter, which release or sell for decent CC, and they'll usually will have at least three litters before they're infertile. A couple of exhibits with scorpions or frogs and a wild dog habitat got my first franchise going easily. Generally I don't even bother trying to sell on the market, just release them.

Peafowl breed like crazy, but sell for cheap. Still, you can rake in quite a bit just because they're so prolific.

Avoid crocs, tortoise and komodos, generally any reptile, the babies take forever to grow up.