Good point though

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/planetzoobreedingprogram

Where do we find the link for this group? Can't see it anywhere.

Thank you for your interest, I am still building everything up but hopefully will be done by the end of the week!

my best trick for happy viewers is to try your best to block off any "bad" views (far away, usually)
and then to build bridges for guests that go into the habitats, raised just high enough for them to not be in danger of the animals, but the closer they can get to being "just above/ in front of" the animals, the better

How I dealt with the large habitat and viewing needs, I made it long and thin rather than a square like shape.

I then placed path access around 3 of the sides. So whilst some people complained that they couldn't see because they were on the side the animals weren't and clearly short sighted rofl. The people on the other side were having a whale of a time...

If you do go with a large habitat area, what you could do is have path area that seems to push into the habitat making the habitat area around the customer thinnner that elsewhere. And this area is where the people are. They get a panoramic view of the animals and because you placed all feeding items there they will be forced to spend time eating in front of the guests.

And, to preserve money for food, move the excess animals to other zoos or your storage until you need them. They won't ages while you are not playing the zoo they are in or while they are in storage. So, you can use them in a generation or two down the line as and when you need to.

People will donate more and look at more animals if there are babies .. they love the ickle ones. So make sure you keep one or two babies in the breeding pen until the next babies are due to keep the guests interested.

And don't forget space will become an issue with adults, so you will need to start removing adults to storage, trade sales or the wild or other zoos to keep the animals in a space they like and your keepers can manage.

The reason in a smaller zoo that this doesn't happen is because the guests will not visit more than 1 habitat for the same animal. Once they have seen the animal they move on to the next. However, if you space the habitats to different areas of your zoo, say have one near a transport drop off point, have another near a food court area etc. If they used the transport first, they will likely visit that habitat rather than the one near the entrance. If they came in and went straight for food .. then maybe they will visit the habitat near the food area rather than the main one.

If you find it hard to concentrate on multiple breeding pens, then have a breeding habitat containing the ones you want to breed and look after them. Then disitrbute the babies to the other habitats. One for females and one for males. Need to move out a pair for breeding in another zoo, you know where they are.

During one of the community challenges I did a spate of African Elephant breeding for it. I found having two or three separate zoos and having them interbreed was the best scenario, seeing as there were long periods where they don't do anything so I used to hop between them to start the next animals off breeding and having babies and allow them to grow up. But, if you have a large and profitable enough zoo you could have multiple habitats spread around and they will be a bit more profitable.

I bought this game 7 weeks ago and spent the last week trying to build an efficient African Elephant breeding program.

It takes roughly 1hr 45min for a baby elephant to reach maturity; at 5x speed the entire time. They are expensive to feed and require large habitats. if the habitat is too big the guests complain about not being able to see the elephants; that affects donations. When i add more habitats of the "same species" the "additional habitats" don't seem to be profitable. It doesnt surprise me that elephants were the only species that didnt have a pageful of rated animals.

I would like to learn more about the community breeding program and im interested in any tips about efficient elephant breeding.

The group has only just started so we haven't got a full list yet. Whether one is being penned offline as we speak I don't know though.

I started going through the list right now to see the status at this time frame but out of the A animals only the African Elephant didn't have a pageful of mixed sex animals of any rating. And had a total of 5, 3 Frontier Females and 2 higher price Player Males.

I would suggest for the moment that you think about which ones you would like to do in the near future and are able to prepare for it now and see what they are like on the trade system now. For example, the hippo selection is likely to be poor next week due to the challenge. It may be beyond your currency at the moment but its a good starting point.

Your cheetah work may prove useful as well so keep that up.

Hey there, i think i'd be interested in helping out if possible
(although i don't entirely understand the system being developed and how itll work)

Would anyone be able to list a few species that are consistently not on market, so i can try and acquire some breeding pairs and set up a small population?

I just divided my XL cheetah pen into 3 separate enclosures to try and make more Conservation credits. Dunno if they are a rare find on the market or not, but at the least it should help me to be able to afford something that is in higher demand

https://steamcommunity.com/app/703080/discussions/0/2992045729270607073/

A bit barebones for now. I am working on a more refined version of my summary I posted in the forum.