Tag: planet zoo

I got land and began to set up my second zoo (Filename: Baby’s Second Zoo) which was going to be an all tortoise spectacular (today I found out terrapin only refers to a specific type of turtle which the dictionary was quick to tell me was edible before it told me anything else) and then I found out there weren’t, exactly, any blueprints to what I wanted in the blueprint area of the game and I’d have to go to the steam workshop to download them.

Well, welcome to Sims hell, I guess.

I got some pretty ones but spent more time on window-shopping than playing.

Turns out the solution to my problem with the keepers was ‘turn it off and on again’ which meant it was fixed when I turned the game back on the other night. Yaaay. Also turns out the ‘hard shelter’ was NOT the size of the exhibit but actual shelters which for some reason didn’t show up the first time I searched for what the tortoise needed in its exhibit but appeared the next time I looked?

Well I guess the point s my tortoises keep fucking like maniacs and I have so many tortoises now. So it’s good I expanded the exhibit anyway!

I also added two sets of wolves, timber and arctic. For some reason TWO of my timber wolves arrived injured! Someone is targeting my wolves.

I found out other players could come visit my zoo. I hope they liked my bear exhibit, aka ‘the one that looks good’.

I released my first aardvark to the wild, thus preserving the species for generations to come. No, don’t thank me, I do it because it’s the right thing.

I found out there’s more than one species of tortoise so I think when I finally begin my file name ‘baby’s second zoo’, I’ll make an all terrapin zoo. Party city. Party city.

Next thing I need to do: Fix the fence at the arctic wolves habitat, as I accidentally put the one-sided side of the mirror on… the wrong side.

Well, last time I played things were going pretty good! I had a baby aardvark, my staff were doing things, etc, etc.

So my next session I decided to get bold. A SECOND exhibit! Oh the luxury. I got two grizzly bears and used what I’d learned from making the aardvark haus to make them their exhibit. Bit of trouble as I figured out plant life, but otherwise it was fine.

And then the pathing issues started. For some reason my staff couldn’t get into the gate to tend to my bears. So I took the door out which left a solid wall and moved it to somewhere else.

ALERT ALERT DANGEROUS ANIMALS HAVE ESCAPED

I looked at my bears, sitting calmly on top of their climbing shelter. I think one was scratching itself. The alert shut off when I put in a new door, which also apparently couldn’t be walked into by staff. But I saw SOME OF THEM go in so I was like, okay, it’s working? Maybe?

So I built a new area, for phase 3 now that I’d figured out how to make work areas. I was going to breed so many Galapagos tortoises (four). But a new problem along with the old: STILL no keeper could get into the habitat (I don’t know what I’m doing wrong! No one has trouble with the aardvarks!) and the habitat was too small for my army of four tortoises. So that’s fine, I thought, I’ll just take away the path surrounding it and expand the habitat.

Then I discovered I couldn’t delete the pathways. Or the fence. And when I searched help, it wasn’t exactly forthcoming. No results for delete, and when I started trying to read more closely, the fans on my computer suddenly started screaming which it turns out is not particularly conductive to reading a help file. This game is a real resource eater, wow. I haven’t really had that problem with games on the new pc at all.

So I saved, closed out, and vowed to discover what I’m doing wrong… tomorrow.

Please don’t let me dream of anymore disintegrating turtles.

I’m aware that because comments are turned off that pretty much means no one can ever offer me a solution to these problems but fortunately this is mostly a record to myself so I can look back and go ‘I never did figure out how to delete those paths’.