Dream Zoo - Tips and Tricks (not for add me codes)

[Kuthu]

I have discovered that it is not necessary to move the animals away from the babies to accelerate them. Even if part of the baby is covered ,you only need to tap the sign board of the animal to speed it up. I hope u all find this useful. At least it puts an end to the endless tapping to move the parent away entirely, and also we can now easily accelerate those huge dinos

[thumper300zx]

Got suckered into this game to get COINS for HANGING WITH FRIENDS, and I ended up enjoying it (thought I'd hate it). I've been playing for two days, but through trial and error learned some tricks. HOWEVER, there is one trick that works better than anything -- by a LONG SHOT!!! This is a big time coin machine.

A category has 6 animals. Place them all together tightly.

Then, in a separate space, take one family of animals from this category. Build a huge area of ADDED SPACE around it.

You can build the space with 1x1 (15%), 2x1 (30%), and/or 4x4 (60%). Use only these (nothing lower, and don't pay a premium for 70%). They all have the same effect. If you have four 1x1's, it's 4 x 15%= 60%. Buy whatever is cheapest, unless you want a pretty zoo.

Using many different shapes, my new space totals the equivalent of 34 1x1 sections (34 x 15% = 510%!!!). I also attached an INFO booth for another 8%, and then surrounded the entire area with 1% path sections. With this method, you can also effectively use the jagged edges of the board -- just make sure the ADDED SPACE connects, and it will count toward your bonus! (I will post a screen shot of my NEWER set up in a few days).

[EDIT 3/8/2012] -- I've learned a bit more after having this setup for a bit. Though your zoo may not look totally awesome, create only a GIGANTIC field for the PLAINS animals. While other species may look to give more on the cash in, they a) don't cash in as often and b) cost way more to build a habitat for. So, just focus on making a HUGE plains area, and cash 'em in over and over and over. Then, once you develop the rest, you can sell off the plains and create nice habitats for the other animals. Also -- invest in several sets of Champion Rhinos -- they are low maintenance for the massive amount of cash you get. Sell them later.

This makes for clean, easy construction. If you use % bonuses around several animals, it actually dilutes the value (applies some % to each animal by it). It also takes up a lot of space. So, what you've done is put all the animals in one small spot, and then built a nice space next to them (separate) with a spot to move ONLY ONE of the animals into.

NOW THE FUN PART!!!!

When a family of animals is ready to be cashed, DON'T CASH IT -- FIRST, click MENU > MOVE. Then move them into your special spot, all alone. Click DONE. Once there, cash in that family. Then, click MENU > MOVE, move them back out, and put in the next family. You will get the bonus value even though the family hasn't resided within the area during the 'time waiting' period.

Everything and always get full value. Also means you don't have to be as vigilant cashing in. Just move them in as you have time.

You'll get efficient at moving them back and forth. When you cash one in, MENU > MOVE to move them, stay on move, move in the next family, click DONE, cash out, and repeat the process. The other nice thing, you can let a group of animals roam the large spot if you feel they need to stretch out

Here are some screen shots of how I had it set up (I have since streamlined it to make it easier to add the next sets of animals, and still have a cool looking zoo). I have just smashed all the animals together, surrounded them with a cheap fence to protect visitors (he he).

With the setup seen below, moving the Champion Rhino family from nothing to the special spot: 15339 to 91589. Gazelles from 245 to 1476. Cheetahs 1425 to 8455...etc. I have quickly been able to build up my WINTER animals just using the PLAINS setup. And already started cashing in on those, too!!! My Champion reindeer goes from 4454 to 12694. I only have the equivalent of 12 1x1 squares for it right now!!!

The bigger you make the area, the better. But don't run out of space to do it for all the other animals. You'll be making money REALLY fast using this method. Yeah -- pretty awesome (see note below screen shots):

STEP 1: Create large expanse (ADD SPACE) for a given group of animals (this example shows how you can cash in on GIRAFFE):



STEP 2: Wait for cash out. Giraffe is ready .... DO NOT CASH OUT ..... YET !!!!!



STEP 3: MENU > MOVE. See how Giraffe is worth before moving? Now, move Giraffe (or chosen animal) to cash out spot.



STEP 4: SEE HOW MUCH MORE YOU GET for GIRAFFE!!! Click DONE when ready....



STEP 5: Do your CHA-CHING!!! You get the new value, not the value shown before the move. The move back, and repeat process with new animal.



Last -- help others. When visiting zoos, look for incomplete expansions first. They are typically on the outskirts (bottom, far left). Find those first -- click them twice (you get your two hearts), then go find two other things to help with and still earn coins. Help advance babies, then clean/feed, in that order. So, EXPANSIONS, BABIES, and then CLEAN FEED. Got it? Be helpful

One other tip, then I'm out -- visit zoos often and get a crap load of hearts. Always accept the free gifts afterward, and always give back. USE YOUR TON OF HEARTS to fix flat tires during Safaris. I have found you pretty much break even with money if you do this, so you can keep doing Safaris as long as you want. Just keep visiting other zoos for hearts. You'll get even more hearts after you come back and accept gifts.

[Kuthu]

Has anyone figured how many golden apples that yield zoo cash .can one get in a day?

[CarmenDior]

When I leave my zoo to visit neighbors and come back, my coins decrease by like 30,000. Anybody know why this may be happening???

[xsorelyx]

I have noticed that your inbox will only hold 25 requests at a time . If the inbox is full and any more requests come in, they will "push" out the earliest request and you will lose either gifts or requests. So if someone requested you as a neighbor or sent you a gift and you didnt get to it before you inbox was full, then you may have lost some requests. If it was a neighbor invitation, they will still have you as a neighbor but it will show that it is pending your acceptance. You however, will not be able to view them as neighbors. In order to avoid losing out, you cannot let your inbox get full.

[SumDumZoo]

Originally Posted by CarmenDior

When I leave my zoo to visit neighbors and come back, my coins decrease by like 30,000. Anybody know why this may be happening???

I have emailed Zynga about this. They have told me this is a known issue and they are working on it apparently.I've lost way more then 30k though. I have lost millions of coins already from this bug. I have also lost hearts from doing the dino safari's and placing the animals, but nothing places. Have also bought expansions and they just disappear without actually expanding lol.

Zynga Customer Support support@zynga.com via ddq3fei4nhj1lpj4.2x2h1.6j52ieac.6.bnc.salesforce.c om
Mar 12 (2 days ago)

Hello Zoo Owner,

I'm sorry to hear that you're still losing Coins though you've reinstall the game app twice.

Rest assured that we're currently working on your concern and we will update you once we have straightened this out.

Thanks for your understanding.

Your friendly Zoo Keeper,

Joy

Zynga Customer Support

Reply from Zynga Customer Support
Welcome back Zoo Owner,
This is your Zoo Keeper Joy and I understand that you're still haviing an issue placing a Dino and you're still losing Coins when you log back in the game.
We are aware of the issue and are currently working on it. You will be updated once this is resolved.
Thanks for your understanding.
Your friendly Zoo Keeper,
Joy
Zynga Customer Support

On a side note. Great, great post thumper300zx.

Anyone feel free to add me also. MZWOJE

[bgstrom32]

My girlfriend and I have been playing this game for a while. We read about maximizing bonuses by building out an area of all bonus land and moving your animals one at a time to cash out. We both did this and mine worked out well. My rhinos are bringing over $200,000. For some reason, hers maxes out at just over $53,000 and it doesn't go up anymore...no matter many more bonus lands you add. Does anyone have a clue why this is. I'm on a droid and she is on an iphone, but I don't see why that would be an issue. I have screen shots posted below. Any help would be great!

[SumDumZoo]

Originally Posted by bgstrom32

My girlfriend and I have been playing this game for a while. We read about maximizing bonuses by building out an area of all bonus land and moving your animals one at a time to cash out. We both did this and mine worked out well. My rhinos are bringing over $200,000. For some reason, hers maxes out at just over $53,000 and it doesn't go up anymore...no matter many more bonus lands you add. Does anyone have a clue why this is. I'm on a droid and she is on an iphone, but I don't see why that would be an issue. I have screen shots posted below. Any help would be great!

Since they updated the game this evening. On Android anyway. I am having the same issue. My rhinos are giving me the same number that you posted in the pic. I read somewhere else before that there is a cap on the bonus. Only 250% But I couldn't seen it then. Maybe its working right now.

[Troublevt]

Need to add that third stork!

[thumper300zx]

Originally Posted by SumDumZoo

Since they updated the game this evening. On Android anyway. I am having the same issue. My rhinos are giving me the same number that you posted in the pic. I read somewhere else before that there is a cap on the bonus. Only 250% But I couldn't seen it then. Maybe its working right now.

The update ruined the coins -- i emailed about it and they didn't give me a straight answer. If you go to MOVE MODE after update, and select a piece of ADD ON land, you'll see it's not reporting the bonus on animals correctly.

You can go up to 1000% in the previous version...so Rhinos are 15300 or so normally, you can get 153,000 out of them (if you move them into a dedicated space that multiplies value by 1000%). I backed up my installation before the update (Titanium backup) and was able to restore to the old version -- it fixed the problem.

I won't be going back to new version until I have ALL CHAMPION families paid for, and probably will wait a few weeks so I can build up a crap load of coins before updating.

I currently have 15 families of all champion Rhinos that make me 153,000 x 15 every 14 hours (I think that's the interval). Barely paying for expansions at this point -- and I hate how if you get an expansion for one little corner left over, you pay full price. I should make you only pay a fraction of the cost.