Documentation and game-play issues with Zoo Tycoon 2 (889365)

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Zoo Tycoon 2 documentation clarifications and corrections

The following additions and changes to the Zoo Tycoon 2 documentation are identified by the page number and section title of the Zoo Tycoon 2 manual.

• Page 11: Exhibit building-the nuts and bolts
  If you do not keep your lions well-fed, you may not want to include lions in a mixed-use savannah exhibit because guests may be frightened by a predator-prey confrontation.
• Page 14: The biome brush
  In Campaign and Scenarios games, the biome brush will only position trees and plants that you have previously unlocked or researched. The biome brush positions all appropriate types of trees and plants in Freeform games.
• Page 16: Adopting animals
  In Challenge games, you start out with three animals instead of four.
• Page 16: Keeping them happy and healthy
  Food preferences of animals are found on the Zookeeper Recommendations panel and not on the Animal Information panel.
• Page 20: Income from donations
  When endangered species in your zoo reproduce, you no longer receive a large donation to your zoo. However, you can earn grants by completing challenges in Challenge games.
• Page 23: Employee wages
  Zookeepers receive the highest salary of all employees and animal educators receive the same salary as maintenance workers.

Zoo Tycoon 2 game-play issues

You may experience the following issues when you play Zoo Tycoon 2. A resolution is sometimes provided.

• Crocodiles and other large animals cannot eat meat piles if the food is put next to a fence.
  If your crocodiles or other large animals are becoming critically hungry even though they are provided with sufficient food, make sure that the meat piles for your large animals are not put too close to a fence.
• The Delete Game button is available in the Save Game dialog box when you have no saved games.
  If you click Game Options while you are playing Zoo Tycoon 2, and then click Save Game, the Delete Game button is available even if you have no saved games. If you have no saved games and you click Delete Game, a confirmation dialog box appears. To return to the Save Game dialog box, click Cancel.
• Fences that are positioned next to deep water may become submerged when the graphics detail setting is changed from a low setting to a high or medium setting.
  If you position one of the following fence types next to deep water, parts of the fence may be positioned under the water when you change your graphics detail setting to high or medium from a low setting:
  • acrylic glass fence
  • brick wall
  • concrete fence
  • hedge fence
  • iron bar
  • stone wall
  If a fence is under water, the ability for an animal to escape from the fenced enclosure does not change. To resolve this issue, follow these steps to reduce your graphics detail setting to low:
  1. Start Zoo Tycoon 2.
  2. Click Game Options.
  3. Under Video Detail Settings, click Low.
  4. Click Save changes and exit.
• Saved game files that are not located in the default location for Zoo Tycoon 2 saved games do not appear in Zoo Tycoon 2.
  A saved game can be loaded in Zoo Tycoon 2 by a player only if it is saved in the default folder for saved games that were created by Zoo Tycoon 2 for this player. A game is saved in the default folder automatically when you use Game Options in Zoo Tycoon 2 to save your game. A game that is located in a subfolder of the default folder or in another folder on your computer does not appear in the list of saved games in Zoo Tycoon 2, and cannot be loaded.
  
  To make sure that you can load your saved games in Zoo Tycoon 2, always use Game Options to save your games in Zoo Tycoon 2. You can use the Zoo Tycoon 2 Profile Manager to save games for different players and to manage your saved games.
• A keyboard repeat rate that is set to Fast may cause the screen to scroll only in one direction, your computer to beep or your mouse pointer to stop working.
  If your keyboard repeat rate is set too high, and you use your keyboard or mouse to scroll the screen, you may experience one or more of the following issues:
  • The computer screen scrolls only in one direction.
  • The computer may beep.
  • The mouse pointer may stop working.
  To resolve one or more of these issues, reduce your keyboard repeat rate. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type control keyboard, and then click OK.
  2. On the Speed tab, move the Repeat Rate slider toward Slow to slow down the response of your mouse pointer.
• Photo albums do not display page numbers correctly.
  When you switch between different photo albums, the page numbers do not appear correctly. There is no resolution for this issue.
• Loading a saved game while playing a tutorial locks the game: If you load a saved game while you are playing a tutorial, several of the game tabs and buttons will not work properly. To resolve this, follow these steps:
  1. Save and exit the game.
  2. Restart the game.