Career Mode Animal availability, tips & tricks?

[SgtMama]

I am pretty far into Career Mode on Easy. I've only had the game about 2-3 months, and have all of the packs now. I'm frustrated by the limitation of animals available in the scenarios. After I'm on the Bernie Memorial Zoo and it has limited space, and for the last piece on Gold level I need to get from 13 to 20 habitat animals. Everything left are animals requiring more space. I have 2 habitats with 2 species, and no others are available to double up now.

[J al Ghul]

In career mode the entire animal market doesn't open up until you complete the three stars so you have to work with what they make available

[J al Ghul]

Sorry I think you might know that already and were looking for help with this level instead. I don't think I've gotten there yet but it sounds like the challenge of that level is to make the space for those animals available

[grampers62]

Yes, the career scenarios have limits on the animals available till the player satisfies the objectives for said scenario. Also some elements are set to be more difficult in the scenarios with the apparent intent being to teach players how to overcome issues in zoos. It becomes a bit of grind at times but once one has completed the career one will have learned to confidently sort out issues in most zoos.

[Banisha]

It's been some time since I've played the career on average, but I do remember that you shouldn't try to do more than you're asked to do. It is a learning experience, a guide on how to play the game.
In a real zoo everything also comes down to patience, which pairs fit together and which zoo has the right male or female available for the breeding program.
Whether you go for the sandbox, franchise or challenge after this, the basics remain the same and you can only benefit from it.

[SgtMama]

I do understand the concept of the limited animals in scenarios, it just begins to irritate me! lol. I finished that one and began another. I only have 3 more to go, I think. Then I'll go play in the sandbox for a bit. I tried Franchise mode once, but everyone thinks their animals should go for top price and I didn't like seeing 3 or 4 pages of albino lions! It made it ridiculously annoying. Variety is the spice of life...or so they say.

[grampers62]

Yeah, it does add to the grind to wait for what we need to complete the scenario..

[Banisha]

As for the franchise part of the game, you're absolutely right about the high prices other players charge for their animals. You have the option to set your preferences about age, price and attractiveness, to avoid endless scrolling. In my opinion, those high prices are rarely paid and these animals will also become more affordable, because one simply has one trading center.
Personally, I release all albinos into the wild because I think they are ugly beasts and one of the things the developers could have left out for me.

[J al Ghul]

So im on that level now and what I did was I used terrain tool and on the edge i added land and then made stairs going up to like a second level just have to be careful not to mput too much land or it makes it very dark underneath. I uploaded a screenshot to my steam profile if you wanna see. I ended up making too much land actually and beat it before I filled up all the space

[wpegg]

You can exploit the space requirements a bit if you want by stacking habitats, it will work fine as long as they have overlapping terrain requirements. However you don't need to for that level. I gold starred hard difficulty on that level just by creating a simple grid zoo. Just enough space in each enclosure for each type of animal, a couple of larger overlappers for "ostrich, wildebeest, warthog, springbok", another for Bison, Pronghorn. That's 6 covered then the rest you can solo. Macaques can fit into a very small enclosure, as can most of the deer types available, with a bit of work you can double up some of the other deers by just about meeting both species terrain requirements.

Only thing to note is that the animal list for trade is paged. This isn't immediately apparent as it's got really long pages, but you do actually have a "Next" button at the bottom there, and until this one most scenarios have fit onto one page.

[Ellorien]

Bernie memorial zoo… is that the last scenario? On a small island? You are supposed to have mixed habitats there to house 20 animals. That’s the point of this particular mission — to learn how to create mixed habitats efficiently. Don’t place wolves, they require too much territory.