Alright, Excavation seems like a clear winner.
The Dig.
January, Year One.287 Drogman Lane has always had a reputation for unfortunate events. Every business founded here before has failed. The previous owners of the land were the Marsh & Sons construction company. Officially, their lease indicated that they intended to build a skyscraper here and lease it out to businesses to improve the struggling neighborhood's economy. However, it was not to be. After the construction had made it a few hundred feet down, OSHA complaints from Marsh & Sons' workers resulted in an FBI investigation of Marsh & Sons that ultimately shut down the project. Shortly thereafter, the EPA had the entire site filled with concrete, stating that it was necessary to control toxic material Marsh & Sons had leaked into the ground.
The excavation site has now stood empty for several years. Recently, the city conducted tests of the underlying soil and rock and has declared that all of the material left behind by Marsh & Sons is finally gone. In response, Mayor Mason commissions a new project to beautify the area. Calling the jagged and bare pit of Drogman Lane an eyesore, Mason calls to "fill that old pit with life."
That's where we begin. Per King Zultan's suggestion, our first exhibit will be a combination of Thomson's gazelles and plains zebras. I'll make sure to leave room for this exhibit to grow. If we're doing a multispecies Savannah enclosure, there's several herbivores who will live together happily.
I'll normally just do before-and-after pictures, since construction looks about the same every time. This time though, I thought it'd be fun to show the process.
I started by expanding our path a little and then building a large enclosure. This is much bigger than they usually need to be, but I expect there'll be a lot of animals in here soon.
Placing the first two gazellas, along with the necessary savannah grass and fences quickly wiped out our starting money. Thankfully then the emergency funding drive event gives us an extra
$5000 $10000 dollars. Like I said before, this only happens once.
Our first guests arrived as I planted umbrella acacia trees for our gazelles. Both gazelles and zebras prefer tall grass to trees, but we don't have that plant yet.
After the two gazelles were happy, I put in the first two zebras. The zebras were happy with the same conditions as the gazelles, so I didn't have to change anything for them. Our first exhibit is now complete.
Once that was done, I added some early necessities to our zoo. Before anything else, I hired our first zookeeper to keep the animals fed and healthy. "Dorfings" are now open, on a first come first served basis. I can give you a requested job, or just whatever we need. I've also built a rainforest-themed restaurant. This will be one of our most important buildings. Smaller food stands are actually unnecessary liabilities. All trash is produced by food stands, so building only restaurants erases garbage collection as a gameplay mechanic. Restaurants also generate enormous amount of money while fulfilling every guest need, including resting and needing to visit the restroom. We'll need to build more later on, as our guest count grows too large for this one to handle on its own.
We do still need maintenance workers though, or the fences will eventually break down and the animals will escape.
We're very low on money now, but we're turning a profit. Within days of completing the exhibit, the gazelles had our zoo's first baby.
What would you like to do next?
A gazelle prancing cheerfully before onlookers.
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