Animal Rating

[Cion Distan]

Okay so animal rating. The stars that it shows by their picture. What do they do? How do you increase them? What is their importance? I've had some animals gain them over time and some gain none. I don't get it.

[MajorTaison]

those stars are the fame of your animals if you have a ostrich as an example which did breed a lot and lifed a long life in youre zoo it will certainly have 5 stars and the 5 stars will atract more visitors of course :D

edit:im not sure if the gens matter in this

[Balthazar]

Sorry for hijacking the thread but don't really want to make a new topic.

There seems to actually be no rhyme or reason to the stars. It says the stars are gained via treating the animal well, it having good genetics and it living a long time. Yet I've had animals which are basic, no rating (no bronze, silver etc) genetic wise getting 5* yet gold ratings, doing exactly the same stuff, not getting it. It's really annoying as the final mission requires you to have 6 animals at the same time with 5*. I had one, it suddenly stopped. No idea what caused it to go away. We'll see.

I dunno what to do. I look after the animals, they're always above 90% welfare, they just don't go up in rating. I guess better animals do but affording 2,000 odd for a single gold bengal tiger is a lot and I've not gotten that much yet in the final mission. I don't think I'll ever save up enough to get that. On top of that, final mission requires above 80% happiness with X amount of visitors. Can I do that? Nope. Was perfect until I hit marketing to get more people in and it plummeted from 90% to 76%. I'm really annoyed as I want to finish that gold.

It is depressing as it's not like i can just go afk. You lose money if you don't have animals and if you have animals you gotta manage the populations and so on. All I can do is close the zoo and restart.

[MajorTaison]

Originally posted by Troublehalf:

Sorry for hijacking the thread but don't really want to make a new topic.

There seems to actually be no rhyme or reason to the stars. It says the stars are gained via treating the animal well, it having good genetics and it living a long time. Yet I've had animals which are basic, no rating (no bronze, silver etc) genetic wise getting 5* yet gold ratings, doing exactly the same stuff, not getting it. It's really annoying as the final mission requires you to have 6 animals at the same time with 5*. I had one, it suddenly stopped. No idea what caused it to go away. We'll see.

I dunno what to do. I look after the animals, they're always above 90% welfare, they just don't go up in rating. I guess better animals do but affording 2,000 odd for a single gold bengal tiger is a lot and I've not gotten that much yet in the final mission. I don't think I'll ever save up enough to get that. On top of that, final mission requires above 80% happiness with X amount of visitors. Can I do that? Nope. Was perfect until I hit marketing to get more people in and it plummeted from 90% to 76%. I'm really annoyed as I want to finish that gold.

It is depressing as it's not like i can just go afk. You lose money if you don't have animals and if you have animals you gotta manage the populations and so on. All I can do is close the zoo and restart.

for the last mission i just put the animals with 5 stars in storage they will still count i really dont know how animals get this rating at the last mission i was just waiting till another one reached 5 stars put it in storage and wait again till i finished it

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by MajorTaison:

for the last mission i just put the animals with 5 stars in storage they will still count i really dont know how animals get this rating at the last mission i was just waiting till another one reached 5 stars put it in storage and wait again till i finished it

Thank you. That's a great idea. Sadly my 5* I think died, hence why I lost it. I'll try and remember that. It's getting there that seems to be the issue.

[squib]

as your animals age and if they are well bred and cared for you can get an animal up to a 5 star rating that means more interest from guests and more happiness for them as well. You can't get every animal up to super star status.

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by squibtard:

as your animals age and if they are well bred and cared for you can get an animal up to a 5 star rating that means more interest from guests and more happiness for them as well. You can't get every animal up to super star status.

Been doing that, but it doesn't seem to go up. It seems like Stress, despite being fixed quickly, prevents it in several animals. And twiddling your thumbs wondering if one will hit 5* is annoying.

[Jaggid Edje]

I've no advice for you, but thanks for this thread. I am on that last scenerio as well and the 5-star thing is the last goal I need.
The guest one, if you haven't gotten that yet, is actually pretty easy. I hit the target number of guests before I even reached the gold tier, so got credit for that immidiately. Then I closed the zoo long enough to empty it out, let my staff get things in tip top shape, and when I re-opened the happiness goal was hit within minutes. See...you don't need to hit both of those milestones at the same time. ;)

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

I've no advice for you, but thanks for this thread. I am on that last scenerio as well and the 5-star thing is the last goal I need.
The guest one, if you haven't gotten that yet, is actually pretty easy. I hit the target number of guests before I even reached the gold tier, so got credit for that immidiately. Then I closed the zoo long enough to empty it out, let my staff get things in tip top shape, and when I re-opened the happiness goal was hit within minutes. See...you don't need to hit both of those milestones at the same time. ;)

Yeah I didn't have a trouble with the guest one. I've still not built the 20 habitats. Pointless unless I can get the 5* ones done. Another one appeared, put it straight into trade. But again, twiddling thumbs hoping for another 4 to go over. When stuff is 4* and you're hoping it'll do it. It doesn't. They just die kek. I just dunno if i have the care to wait for that to happen.

Edit: got a 4th but couldn't put it into a trade centre for some reason, so it died.

[Balthazar]

Managed to do it, it seems like outright better animals go up quicker and you DO need mates for them to do it.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Troublehalf:

Managed to do it, it seems like outright better animals go up quicker and you DO need mates for them to do it.

I read the in game help on the animal ratings and my takeaway is that animals with good genetics that are born in your zoo are going to be your best bet for getting the rating up.

I just got my research to where all 20 species in the zoo are to 100% enrichment and eating food of at least quality 2 if not 3, so I figure the current generation being born is going to be good for getting more 5-stars (Just need 3 more).
I have always kept my animals in breeding pairs anyway, since the very first zoo, and am at 2nd or 3rd gen for most of the animals except the 5 newest ones....so I like my chances.
Thanks for sharing your experience as well, helping me feel like I'm on the right path.

[zweetieville]

okay for anyone looking for this answer these are great I searched everywhere with no help till here! I have finaly finished the last mission. As your animals age and have babies or get others pregnant your score goes up most of mine got to 5 stars right before the died cause it just took time. any close to death I put in trade center like suggested cause they still count🤗 Thanks everyone hope this also helps someone else on a mission❣