RageofMars
04-23-11, 04:47 PM
Hello everyone,
Here are some discoveries I've made in the first few days of playing Zoo Story, and I'd like to share it with you all. Now, these are just observations and conclusions I've drawn on my own, therefore I can't call it a Guide. If they are incorrect, unclear, or need more elaboration, please let me know.
Energy Problems
For those of you that are experiencing energy problems. There is a simple solution: just simply make more neighbors. You get +2 energy and +2 experience when you visit your neighbor daily. (+1 energy and +1 experience at first in the lower levels.) If you make 50 friends, that's 100 energy extra you can have a day, which should be plentiful to do all the tasks you would need to harvest crops, constructing buildings, and cashing out on animals/buildings.
Unfortunately, like all TeamLava games, this is a social game. You will need to spend some time acquiring ID's, befriending neighbors, and visiting them to benefit from "almost limitless" energy daily.
Energy Regeneration
Also, another thing to know is that you get +1 energy every 3 minutes. (It was 4/5 minutes at first, then 2 minutes yesterday, and now updated to 3 minutes today)
Crop Allowance
There is a 10,000 crop unit limit. (Source: Thread: 5000 crops limited? (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11184-5000-crops-limited))
Profit of Animals
As some of you have discovered, if you play more often than casually, you may run into a problem where you never seem to grow enough food to feed your animals. So, this is where choosing which animals to feed and profit from will get the most return from energy and food invested.
Below I've drafted two charts. One is profit per food cost without the animal being tended and the second chart is where the animal is tended (i.e. tipped/cleaned by visitors, +20 coin bonus).
Animals NOT Tended
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1171/zsanimals01.jpg
Animals Tended by Visitors
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5822/zsanimals02.jpg
The conclusion: As of 4/24/11, the toured bonus have been changed to +20 coins (down from +100 coins), making the toured bonus not as much of a factor in collecting from animals anymore.
Breeding
You can now have more than 4 animals of one type. (Source: Thread: Anyone having trouble breeding animals today? (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11164-Anyone-having-trouble-breeding-animals-today))
Animals bought with Gems may need additional Gems to breed. (Source: Thread: Cant Breed my tigers! (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11193-Cant-Breed-my-tigers!))
Gifting
I've had some of the same neighbors spamming me multiple times a day asking for building parts. What they don't know is that just like all TeamLava gifting works in other games, you can only request ONE gift from each neighbor per day. This means that -
1. If you have received 20 gifts today, your building part requests will not be answered, even if your neighbors answer to them and they have not sent you a gift today yet. They'll receive a message that says, "player has received maximum number of gifts today."
2. If your neighbor has sent you a gift already, and you accepted, then that neighbor cannot answer your building part request even if you have not received all 20 gifts total. This is because you can only receive one gift per neighbor, per day, maximum 20.
3. You can decline a gift if it is not something you want (i.e. a tree, extra energy, or a building part you don't need). This will not take a count away from your 20 gifts a day limit. However, that player that sent you the gift will not be able to answer your building part request. For example, if you have 40 friends, 12 of them sent you gifts you do not want and you decline, you can still request building parts from 28 of the rest of your friends, but you will not be able to get parts from the original 12 that have already sent gifts.
4. If you have received all 20 gifts for the day, there's absolutely no point in sending building part requests to any of your neighbors anymore for the day. It'll just spam them and even if they answer, you won't get the item. Just wait for the next day.
5. When I send out building part requests to my neighbors, I split it up. For example, names A - G I sent request for Welcoming Mats, names H - M I send request for Bricks, etc. That way I only send ONE request per neighbor that day. No point in spamming them.
A suggestion to TeamLava:
Please fix building parts requests and gifting system. (Thread: Building Part request spams from Neighbors (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11180-Building-Part-request-spams-from-Neighbors))
Thanks for reading, everyone. I hope you all find this to be useful.
Edited 4/25/11: Added information on Energy regeneration and maximum crop allowance. Changed Chart 2 to reflect the changes to Toured Bonus (+20 coins).
Here are some discoveries I've made in the first few days of playing Zoo Story, and I'd like to share it with you all. Now, these are just observations and conclusions I've drawn on my own, therefore I can't call it a Guide. If they are incorrect, unclear, or need more elaboration, please let me know.
Energy Problems
For those of you that are experiencing energy problems. There is a simple solution: just simply make more neighbors. You get +2 energy and +2 experience when you visit your neighbor daily. (+1 energy and +1 experience at first in the lower levels.) If you make 50 friends, that's 100 energy extra you can have a day, which should be plentiful to do all the tasks you would need to harvest crops, constructing buildings, and cashing out on animals/buildings.
Unfortunately, like all TeamLava games, this is a social game. You will need to spend some time acquiring ID's, befriending neighbors, and visiting them to benefit from "almost limitless" energy daily.
Energy Regeneration
Also, another thing to know is that you get +1 energy every 3 minutes. (It was 4/5 minutes at first, then 2 minutes yesterday, and now updated to 3 minutes today)
Crop Allowance
There is a 10,000 crop unit limit. (Source: Thread: 5000 crops limited? (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11184-5000-crops-limited))
Profit of Animals
As some of you have discovered, if you play more often than casually, you may run into a problem where you never seem to grow enough food to feed your animals. So, this is where choosing which animals to feed and profit from will get the most return from energy and food invested.
Below I've drafted two charts. One is profit per food cost without the animal being tended and the second chart is where the animal is tended (i.e. tipped/cleaned by visitors, +20 coin bonus).
Animals NOT Tended
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1171/zsanimals01.jpg
Animals Tended by Visitors
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5822/zsanimals02.jpg
The conclusion: As of 4/24/11, the toured bonus have been changed to +20 coins (down from +100 coins), making the toured bonus not as much of a factor in collecting from animals anymore.
Breeding
You can now have more than 4 animals of one type. (Source: Thread: Anyone having trouble breeding animals today? (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11164-Anyone-having-trouble-breeding-animals-today))
Animals bought with Gems may need additional Gems to breed. (Source: Thread: Cant Breed my tigers! (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11193-Cant-Breed-my-tigers!))
Gifting
I've had some of the same neighbors spamming me multiple times a day asking for building parts. What they don't know is that just like all TeamLava gifting works in other games, you can only request ONE gift from each neighbor per day. This means that -
1. If you have received 20 gifts today, your building part requests will not be answered, even if your neighbors answer to them and they have not sent you a gift today yet. They'll receive a message that says, "player has received maximum number of gifts today."
2. If your neighbor has sent you a gift already, and you accepted, then that neighbor cannot answer your building part request even if you have not received all 20 gifts total. This is because you can only receive one gift per neighbor, per day, maximum 20.
3. You can decline a gift if it is not something you want (i.e. a tree, extra energy, or a building part you don't need). This will not take a count away from your 20 gifts a day limit. However, that player that sent you the gift will not be able to answer your building part request. For example, if you have 40 friends, 12 of them sent you gifts you do not want and you decline, you can still request building parts from 28 of the rest of your friends, but you will not be able to get parts from the original 12 that have already sent gifts.
4. If you have received all 20 gifts for the day, there's absolutely no point in sending building part requests to any of your neighbors anymore for the day. It'll just spam them and even if they answer, you won't get the item. Just wait for the next day.
5. When I send out building part requests to my neighbors, I split it up. For example, names A - G I sent request for Welcoming Mats, names H - M I send request for Bricks, etc. That way I only send ONE request per neighbor that day. No point in spamming them.
A suggestion to TeamLava:
Please fix building parts requests and gifting system. (Thread: Building Part request spams from Neighbors (http://forums.teamlava.com/showthread.php?11180-Building-Part-request-spams-from-Neighbors))
Thanks for reading, everyone. I hope you all find this to be useful.
Edited 4/25/11: Added information on Energy regeneration and maximum crop allowance. Changed Chart 2 to reflect the changes to Toured Bonus (+20 coins).