Trash Cans fill up crazy fast

[Jaggid Edje]

Has anyone else ever moved so many animals at once that no caretakers were cleaning and emptying trash?

I don't normally move too many animals at a time, so have never bothered to make sure I had some caretakers with "Transport animals" unchecked as a work task....but today I moved 150 animals at one time and learned just how quickly those trash bins get full if no one is emptying them.
It's stupid fast.

I'm ready for the anniversary community challenge now. I have around 700 animals ready to release. :)

[SpyGRNtiger2021]

Yes it happens to me all the time, I keep those caretakers too busy. Could you possibly help me find more info on what the community challenges are about and how to do them? I would be interested in learning more about it. Is there an area to read more about it? Is it only a franchise mode thing? Thanks.

[Jaggid Edje]

Happy to answer those questions.

Yes, community challenges are only available in franchise mode. You can complete them with any of your franchise zoos, but not any zoos that are challenge, career/timed scenarios or sandbox.

Normally the community challenges run for a bit less than one week, every other week. Typically the rewards are some CC for every x times you complete the designated task, and then a few gold quality animals once it ends if the community as a whole reached the target goal.
The upcoming challenge, which starts in a few hours, is a special one for the game's anniversary, so it's got a lot more rewards than a normal challenge. It will reward outfits and animals for every x animals you release to the wild (not sure off the top of my head what the value of x is).

You can always see what the current community challenge is (if any) as well as what the next one will be, at this link.[www.planetzoogame.com] down at the bottom of the page. It is showing, as of the time I'm writing this, 4 hours until the anniversary challenge starts.

[SpyGRNtiger2021]

ok thanks so much Jaggid Edje. I have not tried the franchise mode yet, so I will learn more about that first and thanks for the link, I will at least be able to keep an eye on the challenges, they do sound like fun.

I just tried out the anniversary update, so far everything is working great. Keepers are cleaning habitats again

[iloveyourzoos]

I've definitely had the trash problem. I tend to go on spending sprees, and do a lot of animal management and moving while paused, so sometimes when I unpause the poor caretakers are overloaded from all I've given them to do.

It's particularly acute if all of the transfers are on one side of the zoo, since the caretakers from the other side will run all the way across to do the deliveries, and then take forever to wander back over.

Work zones don't tend to help with this, since the caretakers will override their work zone if they're needed for delivery. So the choices are either to set their tasks, add more caretakers, or wait it out...

[SpyGRNtiger2021]

@ iloveyourzoos
I do the exact same thing, do a ton of animal management on pause and when I unpause the caretakers are crazy swamped. I don't mind really, they will catch up with the garbage bins eventually.