Definitive Guide to Increase Meal Quality
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You have to research animals, with your veterinarians, before you can increase food quality.
Once you unlock the higher food quality, you can change it from the “Animals” tab of the habitat itself, or you can open the Zoo Menu and go to Animals-Food and change it for any and all animals in the zoo from there.
As for educational boards, there is a limit to how much education a visitor can gain from each source of education for each species. This limit increases the more you have researched a species with your vets. So, again, doing Vet research on all the animals in your zoo is key.
Also, because of the per species limit, the more animals you have in your zoo, the more educated your visitors can become, and lastly use multiple sources of education for each species. i.e. use both video and audio.
Placing conservation boards also helps somewhat, but not enough to make a huge difference if you are neglecting the previous tips.
How to to know if the boards or speakers are not close enough
It’s easy, because you will get an alert (which literally says that it is not close enough, as shown in the screenshot below) and it will show as yellow instead of blue when you view the education heat map.
The only thing the thought about not having a good view affects is their happiness level.
What to do with boards
For the education video screens and speakers, you MUST use the ones specifically for education, which require you to select a species. You don’t write anything on them, you pick the animal (It’s shown in my screenshot, on the right hand side).
For the Conservation boards, you must select the topic from the drop down list. If you do not select something, it will not provide education. Make sure to vary the topics on your conservation boards as well.
Also be aware that a visitor can only receive education on any individual topic once during their visit to the zoo, so if your boards are all the same, they won’t provide as much total education.
The education heat map is your friend when it comes to making sure all of your education is actually set up to educate people. If it is blue on the heat map, it’s set up properly. If it is black, it’s not set up (or is unpowered), and if it is yellow it’s set up but not close enough to the right species.
You need to learn to use the various options available, over in the lower right of your screen, when building/placing pretty much anything.
“Position snap” and “Position snap rotation”, mentioned above, for example, gets things to snap to where Frontier has set up snap points. When placing screens, for example, there are also “mounts” you can place first. There are mount stands, wall mounts, and ceiling mounts. With position snap on, the screens will snap to those mounts.
When placing the mounts themselves, though, the setting you would want to make sure is enabled is “align to surface”, which aligns the object to whatever surface you are placing it on, for the right orientation.
The settings in the lower right include many other options, and depending on exactly what you’re doing and what you are trying to achieve, you want different settings on and others off. The game can’t really automate that, because it would have no way of knowing what you are trying to achieve. You just need to take the time to learn them all and what they do.
The hints on load up are meaningless or not?
You are reading the hints and then making assumptions. What the hints mean by “close” is the thing I showed, I even showed the picture. The hints make NO mention of that thought bubble that you think is related. And it absolutely is not related.
So, no, the hints are not meaningless. Your interpretation and assumptions caused by those hints are what is incorrect.
It’s easy to test your theory, by selecting visitors and following them through the zoo, and watching their education increase even when they get the thought bubble about a view not being great. I have done this, many times. It’s how I know that you are absolutely wrong.
You have not done it, or you’d also know.
Here’s a screenshot as evidence. I made a zoo with only education speakers for 2 species, and no other education items. At maximum research a speaker gives 10% education on a species. As you can see in the screenshot, the visitor has a total of 20% education, indicating she was fully educated by both speakers. She also has a not-great view thought bubble.
I could show you a hundred other screenshots from the zoo that are exactly the same, every single visitor either has no thought about the view at all, or a not-great thought about it. They also all got the full education amount, regardless of what the thought specifically was, or even if they had no thought about it at all.
The only requirement for education from a speaker or education board is that it be close enough to the habitat to show as blue in the heat map and that the visitor interact with it (for the screen) or stand/walk in it’s radius for the speaker. Period.
I’ve spent a lot of time following visitors through my zoos to understand exactly how it works. So have several you-tubers. There’s plenty of good information out there; please stop spreading false information.
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