Looks like the votes are 3.5 for Boatmurdered, 1 for Underground Utopia, and 1 for Genericville Zoo. We are now the Boatmurdered Zoo!
As for the votes for our next animal, looks like we have 3 votes for giraffes, 2 for sable antelopes, 2 votes for predators and 1 against, (one of the pro-votes being specifically for a mountain lion), and 2 for elephants. Giraffes and sable antelopes are easiest since we have a savanna enclosure already, so I'll start with that.
As for the restaurant, I think I'll let IronyOwl have the name this time. Not only did he ask first, there's also an actual nacho stand we can build. I'll put the suggestion for "Juainos's Nacho Shack" on that one. I wouldn't normally build a picnic area, but it should be fine. Sorry EuchreJack, but restaurants don't actually have workers. The internal management is only reflected in a monthly upkeep cost. If you like, I could name the next restaurant after you.
After the dorf-themed start, I'm thinking about what animals would go along with that.
Most if not all the non-dino species are in DF, of course. But some are more resonant than others.
Elephants
Most things fanciful: Unicorn, Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, (Mermaid)
Things with "Giant": Giant ground sloth, (Giant Anteater), (Giant Panda), (Giant Tortoise)
Those all seem large and expensive, though. I'm not sure how many we can fit in, or afford. And several (in parentheses) I pulled off a wiki and aren't on the available list yet.
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My personal fave dinosaur forgotten beast from a time before time is triceratops, which is savannah at least. But still big and expensive.
Perhaps more usefully, with our steep terrain we can consider a Highlands exhibit space? Mountain lions look to be a reasonably priced predator.
I can keep these suggestions in mind, but I'd estimate that all those animals together represent approximately $150,000 worth of enclosures. That's well outside our current price range, but the unicorn, Triceratops, and giant anteater should all be doable in the near future. We will need a scientist and upgraded fencing for the savanna enclosure, if we get a Triceratops. Giant anteaters aren't actually huge, they're just "giant" in comparison to regular anteaters. They're roughly six feet long on average.
Is it possible to name animals?
We can do that, yes.
Finally, I wanted to let everyone know that we have a channel on the Bay12 forum games discord.
The Boatmurdered Zoo
Late January-June, Year OneConstruction began quickly on the Boatmurdered Zoo. The project was severely underfunded, and the new zoo nearly went under as soon as it was founded. Thankfully, the community's generosity came through, and another $10,000 was raised to keep the zoo running. Life returned to the construction site as gazelles and zebras moved into the first enclosure and the faux-ziggurat of Banana Dan's Flin and Flan was raised to feed the first guests. Soon enough, a baby gazelle was born.
First off, I took care of the requested renamings. Banana Dan's Flin & Flan just brushes up against the character limit, but I was able to make it fit.
On the last day of January through the beginning of February, I set up a picnic area for King Zultan's soda machine and Juainos' Nacho Shack. I had to take a short break from construction at this point as the bills and our zookeeper's salary briefly put us into the red, but we quickly recovered. I put the picnic area a short walk away from the restaurant, just to give the vendors there a chance to survive Banana Dan's presence.
In the spirit of Boatmurdered, I added some decorations to our entrance.
As for actual elephants, there are three different species in the game. There's the African elephant, the Asian elephant, and the woolly mammoth. The Asian elephant is available now and the mammoth could be unlocked with a bit of funding to genetic research, but they'll require new enclosures. The African elephant would most likely fit in with the savanna exhibit, but isn't unlocked yet. I'll try to make sure we collect them all when we get the chance.
Otherwise, February passed without much incident. At the beginning of March, we got the first wave of unlocks. We'll be getting these every three months until the first year is over.
New animals:
Savannah:Olive baboon(900), Common Wildebeest(1000).
Deciduous forest:Black bear(850), Siberian tiger(1000), Gray wolf(900), Camptosaurus(2500).
Tropical Rainforest:Caudipteryx(1500).
Highland:American bighorn sheep(600).
Tundra:Emperor penguin(1100).
Saltwater:Saltwater crocodile(1500), Elephant seal(1500).
Aquatic:Tiger shark(1800).
New buildings:
Sea Dawg's stand
Hot dog stand
Drink stand
Tree swing
New scenery:
Exhibit sign
Street lamp
Lion statue
Wooden observation area
T. rex statue
Velociraptor statue
Metal grate observation area
Triceratops skeleton
Lava archway
Small geyser
Turtle fountain
(Plants)
Flowerbed 3
Flowerbed 4
Giraffe topiary
Surprisingly, we managed to gain a profit on payday. Nine of our zoo guests had been impressed enough to become benefactors at that point. Alongside the regular guest's donations, we earned $2,628 in total donation income that month.
March and the first half of April were spent dealing with our next new animal, the giraffes. The first one I put into the savanna/Giraffe embassy enclosure wasn't happy, finding various objections to the terrain. Thankfully, the zebras and gazelles were tolerant enough of the various changes the giraffe required that I was still able to keep everything in the same pen. We lost more than half our donation income for the month as the guests watched the unhappy giraffe while I worked things out, however.
Unfortunately, the sable antelopes didn't work out. Their environmental needs proved too different from the other animals in the enclosure and I ultimately had to sell them again when the cost of pleasing everything proved too high. At least the attempt to work out a compromise ultimately resulted in an upgraded enclosure for the other savanna animals.
Our zoo was apparently inspected just after they were removed and I cleaned up the evidence of their presence, as Boatmurdered Zoo won the Blue Ribbon for Quality Animal Care award just afterward.
The Quality Animal Care award comes with a $5,000 prize, which was just enough to add a small new exhibit. Since the savanna exhibit requires a very careful balance right now, I used IronyOwl and Mightymushroom's suggestions and added a mountain lion enclosure.
It's on the opposite side of the main path from the savanna animals, but shifted down a bit to encourage people to go over to the snack vendors. Finally, the gazelles had another baby and I've hired our first maintenance worker, Old Mate.
The gazelles' new baby.
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