Strategy Guide

[BrooklynPanda]

I purchased the strategy guide over the weekend. If anyone has a question or something they would like to ask my strategy guide and I can try to help.

I recommend the strategy guide on ZT2. It's VERY helpful.

[RSoxNo1]

Can you provide us with examples of what type of useful information is provided in the strategy guide. Something like that would definitely entice buyers.

[BrooklynPanda]

Here are some things that I found helpful.

Food & Drinks: if a guest dines at a preferred stand they have a greater happiness boost.
Children like burgers, hot dogs, cotton candy, ice cream and soda. Good thing they constitue 50% of the guests b/c you can satisfy them early in the game.
Adult Males like shishkebabs, subs, cheesecakes, popcorn, water, and coffee. Poor guys just have to wait til these stands become available!!
Adult Females like salads, sushi, fuit cups, pretzels, water, and coffee.

It teaches you a very cost efficent way to build exihibts by using the "sunken exhibit" approach. Then you only need a cheap low fencing basically to keep the guests on track and out of the exhibits. Also, mixed exhibits are the way to go if you want to make money. Mixed exhibits yeilds tons of donoation money compared to single species exhibits.

There's no more smileys when you do something right for an animal in their exhibit like in ZT1. So there are tips and pointers that tell you what the animals don't in this game. It tells you about how to give an animal privacy that doesn't use a man-made shelter. There's a breakdown of all the animals. Tells you how much space they need in an exhibit. Ex: The Grizzly Bear needs 80 tiles and each bear after that needs 20 tiles. It tells you what the chances are in getting an animal in the "adoption lottery". Ex: The Gazelle's chance is 1 (greatest chance) and the Grizzly Bear's chance is 70 (lower chance) Higher the number, the LOWER the chance will happen. Want to know the approx. life span of an animal in game months?? This book has that too. Ex: The Grizzly Bear's approx. life span is 43 game months.

It gives you indepth walkthroughs for Campaigns and lots of useful info for the Challenges (since I noticed you do like the Challenges).

I'm telling you, you can learn a lot if you purchase the Strategy Guide. It's good reading too.

Anymore questions, just ask.

[RSoxNo1]

Thanks for the info Panda. I may have to invest in that.