Shared Habitat animal talks

[Jendowoz]

How do you manage to do an animal talk if you have species sharing a habitat? Do you need a separate animal talk section for each animal or is there a way to use the same animal talk for multiple animals. They usually have to be within the habitat perimeter don't they?

[Tonks]

As chasbar said, you need a talk point per animal you want to talk about.

Something else to think about is that if you want to add grandstand seating, you need one (or more) per talkpoint as I don't think you can assign them across multiple talkpoints.

Also, when setting up the talkpoints, take care on the timings - they all default to March and it might be worth leaving one or two months between separate talks to help congestion and ensure your staff get breaks so they don't get upset.

[grampers62]

I wonder.... Has anyone tried to get one talk point to occupy the same space as a second one?
Doesn't seem possible but... There are some clever players out there.

[mrsddixon66]

Originally posted by chasbar:

I have found that you have to place as many talk points as there are species if you want to educate about every species in the habitat. Each talk point only educates about one species at a time. They can be right next to each other unless you have a talk for each going on at the same time. If that is the case they probably need to be apart from each other. Or you can place one point and keep manually changing the species that are talked about. A good update to the game would be to allow each talk point to be used for multiple species. The same is true for animal tour points. My current zoo has three species sharing a habitat with three tour points within 4 meters of each other. The tour guide gives a talk at one tour point and then leads the group 4 meters to the next point.

I was just thinking about suggesting this very thing only two days ago! Great minds, eh? It would be great if you could use the species and month drop downs to assign up to four or five different species to one talk point and then link that point to multiple seating sets. That would make setting up large multi-occupied habitats perfect in the education system. As of now you can have multiple seats per talk point just not multiple talk points per single seating venue. Hopefully the devs will pick up on your suggestion and implement it into one of the next few updates!

[Jendowoz]

Thank you all for your suggestions, it was what I thought only one species at a time unless you set up more than one or manually change the same one, which is a bit too taxing when you are multi-tasking to manage everything else.
I guess I could set up the option with tours, or set it up for a separate educator to do the wandering educational thing for the other species in the same habitat. I tend to use one educator per 1 or 2 habitats anyway.