Summary
- Have enough food and drink options to keep guests happy and generate income. Spread refreshments throughout the zoo.
- Keep the zoo clean with plenty of bins and caretakers. Hide staff buildings from guests for a tidy appearance.
- Provide ample toilets and benches for guests. Ensure guests have great views of animals to prevent complaints.
Planet Zoo is now available on consoles, allowing even more players to enjoy one of the best zoo management games on the market. On top of building incredibly realistic enclosures and keeping all the animals happy, players also have their guests to keep in mind. After all, happy guests will stay for longer and spend more money, helping to keep the zoo running.
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There are many requirements that guests have, and all of these are measured on a scale of 1 to 100. Players can see an overall view of this for all their guests in the zoo tab, or they can click on individuals and see their current happiness and thoughts. This second option will give players a better understanding of any shortcomings in specific areas of their zoo. Thankfully, there are many easy ways to improve guest happiness in Planet Zoo.
7 Have Enough Food & Drink
This Not Only Keeps Guests Happy, But It Generates Income, Too
One of the most important requirements for guests is that they have enough food and drink. Thankfully, Planet Zoo has many options to choose from, and players can place vending machines, small stalls, kiosks, and even restaurants to provide for their visitors.
Crucially, players must offer guests a variety of refreshments, and these must be spread out across the zoo. If a guest gets hungry or thirsty halfway around the zoo and the only option is to walk back to a large food court at the entrance, they won't be happy. This is also very important when it comes to the zoo's income.
6 Keep The Zoo Clean & Tidy With Staff Buildings Out Of Sight
Have Enough Bins & Caretakers
With good reason, guests will not be happy about a messy zoo, even though it is usually guests themselves who make a mess by dropping litter. At the end of the day, this not only reflects badly on the zoo but is equally the zoo's fault for not providing enough bins. Players should have plenty of bins spread out across their zoo, with a higher number of bins in popular spaces, as well as near food and drink outlets.
Having enough caretakers and training them is also important, as they will tidy up litter, empty full bins, and clean toilets. As with all members of staff, caretakers also need nearby staff rooms to relax in, otherwise they won't be able to work effectively. On the note of staff facilities, players should take care to hide these from guests, particularly things like generators, as they can make visitors unhappy.
5 Have Enough Toilets
Guests In Desperate Need Of A Bathroom Will Become Stressed
For fairly obvious reasons, it is important to have plenty of toilets available to guests in Planet Zoo, and as with most guest facilities, these must be spread around the zoo so that all guests are always a short walk away if the need arises.
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Guests who need the toilet and have nowhere to go will become incredibly stressed, lowering the overall happiness of all visitors. For a more seamless design, players can incorporate toilets into large buildings such as restaurants and cafes. With how realistic of a building game Planet Zoo is, anything is possible.
4 Make Sure Guests Have Benches To Rest On
Guests Have Energy Levels That Drop As They Walk
One of the parameters for guest happiness and welfare is their energy levels, and this basically comes down to the question of whether there are enough benches in the zoo or not. As with many things on this list, benches must be spread out evenly across the zoo.
Occasionally, benches will be vandalized by unwelcome guests, so every now and then, players should head over to the crime menu to fix or replace these broken benches and even screens when the need arises. Having a few well-trained security guards should help in this regard.
3 Make Sure Guests Have Great Views Of Animals
Guests Will Complain About Bad Views
It's all well and good having all the facilities and refreshments that guests need, and these factors are incredibly important. However, at the end of the day, the public comes to the zoo to see the animals. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as having lots of different species, although rare and popular animals do attract more guests.
Players must make sure that guests have good views of the animals, and thankfully, there is a tab on the heat map that allows them to check sight lines. Tips to help with this include not having barriers too high and not making habitats so big that the animals are extremely far away. Of course, this must all be balanced with the welfare of the animals in mind, which should be the priority. Shy animals in particular don't like huge swarms of guests gawking at them.
2 Keep The Animals Happy
Guests Will Be Angry If Animals Are Treated Poorly
Having happy and healthy animals in Planet Zoo should always be the priority, and falling short of this duty will have the knock-on effect of making guests unhappy. In fact, animals with low welfare will attract protesters.
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Thankfully, there are many ways to keep animals happy in Planet Zoo, including keeping them fed and hydrated, having their habitats regularly cleaned, managing population levels, and offering them plenty of enrichment. Some animals even prefer living in multispecies enclosures.
1 Make Sure To Educate Guests
Guests Want To Learn, & There Are Many Ways For Them To Do So
One of the roles of a zoo, even virtual ones created in Planet Zoo, is to educate guests on the species present. Guests will start with an education rating of 0, and hopefully, by the end of their visit, this will have increased significantly. Education can be achieved in many ways. First of all, for each habitat, players will want to have an education board and speaker linked to the relevant species present. There can also be conservation boards dotted around, and by placing information centers, guests can buy audio tours.
Speaking of tours, players can set up actual tours with the ability to place each stopping point to create a unique experience for their guests. These tours are led by members of staff known as educators, who can also give scheduled animal talks, or instead, they will walk around educating on the move.
Planet Zoo
- Released
- November 5, 2019
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Frontier Developments
- Platform(s)
- PC
- Genre(s)
- Simulation
