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Zoo World – Infinite Money

February 4, 2010

I was rather shocked at this exploit. not so much that it exists but how remarkably simple it is. I would not be surprised if this is corrected in the near future. But for now it works and so for now all you need is time to make all the money you could ever want in this game.

To start with, go to the Visit zoo screen

click on the ticket booth to change your ticket price.

Alter the price one step down from your current price and then click the ok button

You will immediately gain money equal to your current daily profit

Repeat until you have all the money you want


I’m really surprised this was not caught by the development team. I guess it’s just that when you’re normally changing ticket prices you’re not looking at your current money and since you normally get money every 5 minutes it’s easy to over look the fact that you just gained a “zoo day’s worth” of cash instantly.


Part 1: Zoo World by Rockyou
Part 2: Zoo World – Infinite Money
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Zoo World by Rockyou

February 4, 2010

Publisher Rockyou
Platform Facebook
Multi-account Yes
Type Simulation
Initial Review Date 2/3/2010
Last Updated 2/3/2010
FAQ Official FAQ
Files/Tools
Click here to Play

In this game you run a virtual zoo. As you add animals you attract more people and sell more tickets. More money means you can buy more animals and so forth. This game is clearly still being developed and is some what unusual in it’s format as a result. Surprisingly the entire game can be played without ever visiting your zoo. Given that the visit zoo tab takes you into what appears to the the “main game” this is odd. As it is, aside from looking at and arranging your zoo there’s very little you can do from this screen and from what I can tell it is purely cosmetic. After all, you don’t even have to actually place your animals in order to earn money from them. I guess people are willing to pay for the “idea” that you own a bunch of exotic animals. Whether they see them or not isn’t important.

To advance in the main game, for the most part you just want to keep on accomplishing whatever goals are listed on the top of the screen from your “home” tab These can be anything from buying trash cans to having 16 small mammals. The shopping tab is pretty straightforward but if you’re not sure where you need to go to buy something for an accomplishment, you will be given a link or hint explaining where or what you need to do.

In any case you earn money based on what your current ticket price is set to versus how many people visit your zoo and your current rating. As you add animals the number of people you attract increases. The rarer the animal the bigger the increase is. Of course the more animals you have the more support items you will need to maintain your high rating. If you don’t purchase these support buildings then your rating will suffer and you will make less money. It’s a good idea every time you buy an animal to see if you can increase ticket prices. Most of the time you will make less money at the higher ticket price (due to chasing people away) but every now and then you will make more money at the new higher level. Doing this you can progressively charge more and more money for tickets to see your zoo.

There are a number of other features in the game that are secondary, but do help add to the over all game. They are as follows

Visiting Friends: what FB game would be complete without the ability to visit your friends who are also playing the game? Visiting a friend earns you money based on your level. Finding the “hidden treasure” in your friend’s zoo will net you an additional cash depending on how high level your friend is. This can be quite profitable if you have a lot of friends. To find the treasure you need to click on animals in your friend’s zoo till you find it. This means that low level friends who only have 3-4 animals are the best kind to have since you can rapidly find your cash and get out. High level friends who have 40-50 animals however probably just aren’t worth the effort.

Hiring Friends: You can hire your friends as zookeepers. This is something you want to do as much as possible since it’s free. As you get more and more animals you will be required to have a certain number of zoo keepers. These keepers get progressively more expensive as well. However, any of your friends who are already playing the game can be added as zookeepers. There doesn’t seem to be any sort of limits on this, so hire all of your friends and then you shouldn’t have to worry about needing zookeepers for awhile (depending on how many friends you have of course!)

Training Birds: There are some birds that can be trained to learn tricks. As your bird learns more tricks the graphic will change. This otherwise seems to have no purpose but to act as a place to spend money.

Breeding Animals: Certain animals can be breed. These are generally your 3 star rare animals. Since the rarity of your animals directly affects how much money you make I guess this was done to help curb your income. Basically you hit the breed button and you will be given a time frame. Then when that time frame runs up you need to go back and “feed” the new born animal or else you lose it. Of course to help prevent this you can authorize the game to automatically post to your wall so that your friends can feed the animal instead. It would be nice if some of the farming games gave you this option for crops :P

Racing Eagles: Your eagles specifically can be raced. You are  given 1 race per “zoo day” up to a maximum of 10 races. To race you pickand name an eagle. Then you pick an opponent to race against. Depending on your success you earn rocks. These rocks grant you a speed bonus. Additionally, the rocks can be combined into more powerful rocks at a rate of 3 to 1.

Additional Tips

  • To do the missions that require you to have X number of visitors, go temporarily set your ticket price to $1. This should boost your visitor number to the required level. Once achieved you can set your ticket price back to it’s original level.
  • To do the missions that require you to have X number of a certain type of animal, look to see what the cheapest animal of that type is and buy a whole bunch of them. keep in mind that even if it’s not an animal you particularly like you don’t have to display them in your zoo if you don’t want to.
  • You only  make money when the game is running, so an easy way to make a bunch of money is to let it run in the background while you do other things. It does have a built in timer that needs to be reset every hour or so, but it’s amazing how much money you can make in a few hours just having it run in the background.

Part 1: Zoo World by Rockyou
Part 2: Zoo World – Infinite Money
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Tycoons by Crunchy Roll

February 2, 2010

Publisher Crunchy Roll
Platform facebook
Multi-account yes
Type Economic Simulation
Initial Review Date 2/1/2010
Last Updated 2/1/2010
FAQ
Files/Tools
Click here to Play

In this game you purchase businesses which produce goods, services, raw materials or tax revenue. These can in turn be used to produce additional goods or can be sold at a profit to other players. The object of course is to make as much money as possible. The game is a pretty cool economic simulation game of the most basic sort. It doesn’t have a lot of flashy graphics but what it does do it does well. The menus are fairly intuitive and descriptive. I had a lot of fun with this game over christmas a few months ago since it was one of the few facebook games I could play with the laptop I was using. This is because it consists more of planning then of clicking repeatedly all over the place.

The only real complaint I have with this game is that the invites are handled really poorly. There is no way to know which of your friends is already playing the game and you don’t gain any benefits from having friends until one of you accepts a blind invite from other. Obviously going to a tycoons site helps, but even then because it’s not as popular a game I’ve found it difficult to get enough friends to unlock everything. I probably have enough friends playing this game already but I don’t feel like going though the list of 200+ people to figure out who those people are.

Multiple Account Benefits

I was surprised to find that having multiple acocunts on this game is actually pretty marginal. while it is possible to gift items to yourself as well as money, the quantities are so small as to be negligble. So while technically you benefit, the benifits just don’t seem all that worth while. Probably the most useful thing this allows you to do is produce goods on one account and then mail them off to the other account. Of course doing this means you’re not upgrading or expanding the secondary account very much.

Getting Started

Right away the game will tell you to pick a sector that you wish to specialize in. It also will tell you which sectors are currently doing well. The choice you make here while important isn’t irreversible. So,
if you pick something that you decide you really hate you can always change. But it’s not unusal to dip into multiple sectors anyway so you’ll probably be able to get some use out of what you picked.

Right after you start, the first thing you’ll want to do is to make sure that the free business you were given is actually profitable. This is read from the number up at the top as shown here

If this number is red then you need to immediately sell your business and buy a different one in the same sector (if possible). What this number is telling you is how much money you gain from the product it produces, minus the goods it took to produce that product. When the number is red it means you’re better off selling the raw materials directly then you are using them to produce this good. If you find that you’ve had to change buisinesses you may want to consider also selling whatever associated raw materisals you got. Afterall, you’ll want stuff that goes with your new business.

Once you have a moey making business I would recommend checking out the achevements page and seeing which ones you can easily get. Completing achievements helps you level and leveling unlocks additional businesses. So, even if you end up buying stuff that you’re not really going to use it’s well worth it.

Also, you’ll have to make a decision if you want to be self sufficient or not. The downside is that you may not make quite as much money this way if one of your producers has a negative profit margin (it costs more to make the good then it does to simply buy it out right). However, the advantage is that you will always be able to produce and sell your end product goods without having to worry about market fluctuations.

Something else I’d like to point out is that you should pay careful attention to how much a plant can store versus how much it produces. This is because once a plant maxes out it’s storage it no longer produces goods until it is “emptied” so, depending on how often you’re harvesting your businesses you may find that increasing the capacity is what really gives you “more”.

All in all just try things out and find what works best for you. You can always get a good idea of your progress by checking your net worth graph. If overall it’s going up you’re doing great, if it’s mostly going down though then you probably need to find a better strategy.