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Zoo Manager's Express Formation


Hello!

I'm Birgit and welcome to the Zoo Manager's express formation!
You're here to be a good .. very good .. see a most excellent zoo manager!
don't dream too quickly .. You must learn some basic principles that will allow you to build a proper zoo to house beautiful animals.
Open wide your peepers...


Roll up your sleeves! Go!




The basics principles


In Zoo Manager, as the words speak for themselves, your goal'll be to become the best zoo manager you can!

And for that purpose, no secret, you'll have to be patient, caring and above all, be a good manager! Here are some principles to remember:
  • Take care of your animals and clean your exhibits every days.
  • The more animals in good health and well feeded)you have, the more visitors you'll get (especially if you possess rare animals).
  • The more your zoo is well laid out with decorations, the higher the animal wellness will rise and the higher your visitors's satisfaction will increase.
  • The more your visitors will be satisfied and your zoo clean, the more you can make significant income by raising your admission price.

Each day, if you're logging, there will be an UP (Update) to update the status of your animals and give you your last connexion day's statistics on the Office page, where will be notably displayed the detailed amount of your incomes and of your expenses.
Expand and enhance your zoo gradually if you don't want to have useless expenses.

Well, from now on you know the basics of Zoo Manager!

Note!
For further details on how the game works, go to the Advanced principles section.

Important!
To start the game in the better way , I can only advise you to see "How to get started on ZM", which will explain you in details the first steps.

I'll now explain you quickly browsing ZM.


The navigation and game icons






1. The ZM menu


Your Zoo:
Page where you can build your zoo, place your animals in and take care of them.

Your Office:
There, you will have access to the latest news ZM, the recent events in your zoo and your last connection days's statistics (And later, your missions and labels).

The box:
Page grouping list and characteristics of each animal stilln't placed in the zoo, this includes animals purchased on the market, births or animals earned otherwise.
It's also where you can sell your animals.

The Marketplace:
Place where you can buy animals.

Your Mailbox:
Page where you can exchange private messages with managers that you are a friend with and also to receive special messages.

The Bank:
Page where you'll find how to get Golden Tickets (the special game's currency) that will allow you to credit your funds of a given amount or buy directly others stuffs.

Your account:
Page allowing you to change your personal information, your avatar, your password or the URL of your zoo. You can also contact us there.

The Forum:
Place where you can share with other managers, have news of the game's developments, ask questions or find answers.

Fashion Visit:
With each click, you'll visit into a zoo manager at random.
To access the zoo for a specific person by typing its name at the end of the address.

Example!
/en/visit/birgit/



2. The information bar


Number of your visitors at the moment of the last UP

Number of animals in your zoo (The animals of the Box are not counted).

Amount of your funds in Zooros, the game's currency

Number of your Golden Tickets, the special game's currency

Your rank among managers ZM

Indicative of your visitors's satisfaction or your animals's wellness

Indication of your progress

To logout from Zoo Manager


3. The Management tools


Selecting an item from the zoo (Click)
Move the map (Click + Maintained displacement)

Zoo's Zoom + / - (Click + Vertical)


Note!
The icons below are also available when selecting an animal or an exhibit, except that they'll act only on the selected item.

Delete an item (Click on the red cross THEN on the item)

Feed ALL animals

Cure ALL animals

Remove ALL animals from their exhibits (Back in the Box)

Clean ALL cages




4. The Creation Menu


Open the Creation menu

Close the Creation menu

Access to the construction menu


Access to the Box (Animals that can be placed in the zoo)




5. The manager's information zone


Add a friend

Delete a friend

Accept a friend's request

Refuse a friend's request

Send a private message


How to begin well in ZM




1. Place the roads


First, click on the "Zoo" icon in the top menu.



You can see your zoo, beautiful open field? Arranged, it'll be even better.



Think about how you will arrange your zoo knowing that the entrance is in the top corner. Is it good? So we set off!

We will start with ways to ask that your visitors can move.
Open the menu construction of the zoo by clicking the big "+" at the bottom left click the icon "Digger"
By default, the first tab - exhibit dedicated - is displayed, then you'll have to click on the second tab, the path dedicated one. Select one path and then choose a square by clicking on the zoo and while holding the click, move your mouse to get the desired surface. Release the click, valid confirmation of construction and repeated it as many times as needed (not too much either, this is still the beginning).







Navigating the zoo!
To get a better visibility of your zoo, you can:
  • Click on the "-" icon of the creation menu to hide it.

  • Select the "Selection/Move" icon on the top menu and then click and hold the click to move the point of view.

  • Select the "Zoom" icon on the top menu and then zoom in / out by moving the mouse vertically.



Note!
It isn't possible to:
  • Build an exhibit on a path, therefore, remember to leave blank the squares where you want to save.
  • Directly replace a path on the zoo, first, you must first remove the one already in place.
  • To remove an unwanted path, click the red cross in the top menu and then selects the paths to be removed during construction and confirm the deletion.

2. Build an exhibit


Once placed some paths, let's see how to build an exhibit.
Open the building menu, click on the first tab, exhibit dedicated, choose one and build it from the surface of your choice (the same way that you have built roads/paths).

Example!
I'll choose a forest exhibit's type.





You can rename your exhibit by clicking on the icon "i".







Note!
The surface of an exhibit can not be changed once constructed. The only solution is to destroy the exhibit and to reconstruct.
To exit a menu or deselect an item from the zoo, click elsewhere on your zoo.


3. Buy animals


Click on the "Market" menu at the top .
Then choose the animal of your choice (preferably the same type as the exhibit that you have built before), then appoints its kind and click the "Buy" button.
Repeat procedure for each animal you want to acquire.

Example!
I'll buy a male racoon, a forest type animal like my exhibit and I'll call him Pimprenelle.





Note!
If you purchased forgetting to appoint one or more animals, don't worry, you'll be able to do so later in the animal's info sheet.


4. Install your animals in the zoo


Re-click on the "Zoo" open the menu below and this time, click on the animals icon. That's what we'll call the "Box", where you will recover all animals borned or purchased at the Market and which are not yet placed in the zoo.
Take the animal of your choice while holding the click, drag it over the exhibit. When it's highlighted (the exhibit), release the click.



There you go, the animal is in his new living space!

If you want to place an animal in a different exhibit, first, get it out of the exhibit. Click on the animal, then on the "Barrier" icon, in the animal menu and confirme. The animal will be back in the Box and you can put it elsewhere.



If you want to rename your animal, click on it, then click the "i" icon, to access their file and then click "rename".

Note!
You can put differents animals species in the same exhibit. However, some species may not appreciate coexisting with others.


5. Place decorations


Paths, exhibits and animals, that's great. But you must now get your zoo attractive. We will brighten the whole with some decorations! Returns in the construction menu and click on the menu various tabs, to get an overview of the available options you have.

Decorations like "Nature", "Furniture," "Light" or "Store" will improve to varying degrees the satisfaction of your visitors.
The "exhibit" decorations type will improve to varying degrees your animals's wellness. Note that some would influence one animal (small yellow triangle in the lower right corner) or more particularly (small orange triangle in the lower right corner) and other animals only with a particular habitat (framed with the icon of the habitat in the lower left corner).

When you wish to decorate, click on the decoration of your choice and click the square in the zoo and confirms the purchase. It's easy! Your zoo will wreak havoc :)





Note!
The exhibit decorations are specific to the exhibits, you can not place them elsewhere in the zoo.
Just remember that in general if the square is highlighted in red, you can not build the chosen decoration above it.

Some decorations may be oriented differently, you just have to click on the decoration of your choice (possibly by having already selected the selection tool before) and then click on the "White Arrow" icon to get the desired orientation .





Note!
It isn't possible to place a decoration on a path without destroying the path first.
Remember to do the reverse, FIRST the path, THEN the decoration (unless you want the ground by default, of course!)


6. Fix the admission price


Your zoo now dispose of the minimum needed to open its doors!
A fee exists by default but you're free to change if you wish within the limits of 10 Zooros.
If so, click the "Office" icon.
Click on the admission price up left to change it and valid this change by clicking on the "Change" button.



You can adjust your admission price for the next UP by refering the report that Birgit has sent you after your last UP. She tells you inside how many visitors you could have had if you had an admission price more appropriate to your zoo.
If you had more visitors than the announced number, you'll have to increase your price, if you had less, you'll have to lower it.

Note!
To obtain the best income with your visitors's fee, you'll have to:
  • Have a zoo completely clean with all your animals cured and feeded, otherwise you'll don't have the maximum possible of visitors!
    Think to clean all your exhibits, feed and cure all your animals every days!
  • Find the ideal price, that is to say the one the most adapted to your actual zoo's condition and the one for which your visitors'll be ready to pay.
    Too low, you'll have more visitors, tou expensive, you'll have less visitors.
    In all cases, you'll never win as much than with the ideal price and more the difference between your price and the ideal one will be important, the less you'll win.


The advanced principles




1. Taking care of your animals


This is firstly to meet their basic needs and secondly to improve their well-being.
  • The basic needs
    • Regularly check the health and wellness of each of your animals.
    For this, rolls over a chosen animal and see if the health bar (top) and satiety bar (below) that appear, are green and filled to 100%. If yes, everything is ok!
    If not, then you can remedy it by clicking the animal then clicking on the action icon "Feeding" and/or "Treat" .
    For more detailed information, click on the "i" icon.

    Important!
    Don't forget to feed and cure animals in the Box by going on the page Box!

    Indeed, because they're not placed into your zoo, you willn't able to take care of them directly from the Zoo's page and they'll not appearing in the animal's list which you can feed and cure by clicking on one the general action button "Feed" et "Cure".

    However you can also briefly place them in the zoo the time needed to feed and cure them and so, put them back in the Box . Remember that an animal condition change only when the UP is done.

  • The wellness
    •
    To improve, you'll have to consider several parameters:

  • The type of exhibit

    • Each animal belongs to one or more specific habitats, it's best to install it in an exhibit of the same type as its.

  • The design of the exhibit
    • Decorate it with appropriates decorations for the animal.
    Some are suited to all animals (icons without outline) and others to those of a particular type (icons with outline).
    If in addition, there is a small yellow triangle in the bottom corner, then the decoration improves the wellness of a single animal, and if it's orange, then it will improve several animals's ones.

    Examples!

    Decoration suitable for ALL savannah animals.

    Decoration suitable for forest type animal (in this case, the Panda)

    Decoration suitable for many different types of animals.

  • Space available to it
    • You must remember that for every species, there's a minimum and an optimum exhibit surface area.
    The minimum surface area allow the animal to have a reasonable wellness. This minimum match with his size.
    The optimum surface area will allow to have an improved wellness. This optimum is not indicate to you, you'll have to determinate it. That being said, know that it 's sometimes equal but oftenly higher than the animal size (rarely more than three time as much and never more than four.

    Note!
    • Squares with decoration on it, will not be counted in computing space.
    • Avoids putting too many animals in a too small exhibit. Overcrowding is never good for the animals's wellness.
    • Avoids also constructing exhibits too big in comparison to the animal's size that you place inside, it'll cost you unnecessarily money in upkeep costs.
    • If you're place many animal in a same exhibit, you'll have to add the minimum surface area of each animal to know the minimum surface area needed to the wellness of all.
      It works the same way pour the optimum surface area, that you can only do an estimation as long as you don't know the precise surface area.

    Example!
    • For 1 Panther (Size=2) :
      Minimum space = 2 cases < Optimum space = ? < Max = 8 cases
    • For 1 Lion (Taille=3) :
      Minimum space = 3 cases < Optimum space = ? < Max = 12 cases
    • For 2 Panthers + 2 Lions:
      Minimum space = 10 cases ((2+3)x2) < Optimum space = ? < Max = 40 cases ((8+12)x2)

    You'll understand that determinate the optimum space to the wellness of each species will be very important if you'll want to optimize to the best your zoo's superficy with a maximum of animals in their best wellness!

  • The cleanliness of the exhibit
    • The more animals you have in an exhibit, the quicker the exhibit will become dirty.
    Keep in mind to clean it regularly because neither animals, neither visotrs like a dirty exhibit!

  • Species with which it coexists
    • Some species may not enjoy being in the same exhibit with others, especially if they are hungry. ;)


2. The purchase / sale


I have already discussed above how to buy an animal but you can also sell it!
You just have to click on the "Box" icon, then find the animal you wish to sell in the list and click the "Sell" button.



Important!
ONLY animals in the Box will can be sold.
If your animal is in the zoo, clean it out of its exhibit, it'll be automatically in the Box.

Note!
The ZooManager Market will always buy you your animals but usually at low price, because it's already got an infinity of animals to the sale.
We advise you to go to the player's market (when it'll be in place) to do sales to price really interesting.


3. The reproduction


For births, you will need at least one male along with one or many females of the same species within the same exhibit, and then, waiting for that the miracle of life happens!

At every UP, there'll be a mating between each male and each female and your females will have a chance + or - elevated, depending on their species, to become pregnant.
This probability may be null if:
  • The animal is too young or too old, because it isn't or wasn't anymore in age to procreate. This age range varies among species.
  • Wellness is too low
  • Health is too bad
  • The female had just given birth, she'll need time to rest before being able to mate again. The time is variable depending on species.
Birgit'll informe you in her report if a female become pregnant or if a birth happened. You could follow the pregnancy evolution by looking to the female's information sheet ("i" icon after having clicked on the animal).

One thing for sure, it will require patience, breeding in zoos was never an esay task.


4. The evolution (UP & Report)


In ZM, like it was said previously in the basics principles, you'll can progress every day if you're connecting to the zoo because an UP (Update) will be activated.
It'll update your animals and exhibits's conditions, calculate the visitors's number that you've got and your admissions incomes in relation with the price you've fixed and finally the roads and decorations upkeep costs.
That will be directly show in a mini-report once the UP done.
If you got an earning or a loss after the UP, the amount will be automatically added to or deducted from your funds for the beginning day.

Important!
The UP generally occurs a few time past 1 am and will be actived only if you'll connect or already be connected in your zoo.!
    1 UP = 1 day passed for your zoo.
    If you'll connect only 5 times a month, there'll be only 5 days passed in your zoo.
Between 2 connections, your zoo and animals's conditions don't change.

You'll can consult the complete UPstatistics report on the Office page.By clicking on the incomes or expenses, you'll access to theirs details.
You can also consult the previous reports by clicking on the blue arrows which are under the report.

Note!
  • The Incomes corresponds to all the amounts you've earned, whether they've been credited automatically (animals sale, mission's rewards, golden tickets conversion, sponsoring... )or directly at the Update (sale of admission tickets)
  • The Expenses correspond to all the expenses you've losted, whether they've been debited automatically (purchase animals, construction, care ...) or directly at the UP (maintenance of decorations and roads)
  • The Result corresponds to the subtraction "Incomes - Expenses".

So be careful, don't put too many decorations to the point that maintenance costs exceed your tickets sales!

If you don't earn enough money each day and feel no longer able to do anything, maybe it's because you've seen too big and too beautiful, too quickly.
In this case, the solution is to reduce your expenses costs, have less decorations, fewer animals or smaller exhibit and wait a few UP to get a fresh start.
If you're just too impatient, you can always go to the Bankpage, which will gives you the following method to obtain Golden Tickets which enables you to immediately increase your funds, once converted on the Bank's Conversion page.
But whether one agrees, it's not a requirement for progress. :)

5. The ranking


Your general ranking will vary according to your visitors's satisfaction.
This ranking along with your progress indication will be in evidence in your game's information bar under the menu and will be updated for each of your UP. He'll evolve also day-round each time that an other player's UPwill be activate.
If you are tied with an other(s) player(s), you'll be both of the same ranking.
Later, you'll have access to a ranking page which will show you your ranking based on differents standards than only visitor's satisfaction.


6. The friends


By having friend in ZM, you'll can compare in a wink some of yours statitics with theirs in the manager's information zone which is under your zoo. As one goes along Zm's evolved, having friend will bring you others advantages!

To become friend with an other Manager, you'll juste have to click on the "+" icon in his information zone when you're visiting his zoo.



He'll then appear in your friend list but with hidden statistics until he'll accept your request. You can cancel a non yet accepted request by clicking on the "framed cross" icon, the request will then disapear from your list and from his one.



If you'll receive an add request, it'll appear in your friends list with theirs statistics visible. You could accept or refuse by clicking on one of the matching action icons. By refusing, the request will disappear of your list and of the Manager's one who asked it.



You can delete a friend by clicking on the "red cross" icon, he'll disappear of your list and you'll disapear from his one.



Note!
You could send message to any player when you're visiting his zoo from the mail icon in his informations zone.


7. The bank


If you don't have anymore money in your funds or that you're wanting more without waiting the UP, so the Bank allows you to obtain a certain amount of Golden Tickets (the game special currency).
You juste have to follow the given instructions once you'll be on the Bank page to obtain a code.
Once this code validated, a given amount of Golden Tickets will be credited to you and each Golden Ticket will allow you ton obtain a given amount of Zooros (the game's currency) by converting them on the Convert page of the Bank.

That's not an obligation to play, it'll just allow you to progress a little bit faster.

Note!
Actually, Golden tickets could only be obtained by the Bank and convert in Zooros.
Later, maybe it could be other ways to get ones and other ways to use it.

Final words


Please feel free to visit and participate in the Zoo Manager's forum .
Good luck and long life to your zoo and your animals! :)

Kindly,

Birgit


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