Zoo Tycoon 2
It's pretty sufficient to say that, as a sim/strategy game, this program by Microsoft is fairly amusing. However, after I completed a scenario and was essentially left with a herd of Quaggas and a fairly boring zoo, I decided to have some fun.
It started innocently enough.
I build a maze of raised paths all over the zoo, which zoo guests could not find their way out of. Being a kind-hearted soul, I placed bathrooms here and there, and the odd hamburger stand. Eventually, I took out the plow tool in order to delete part of the path, only to discover that you could make various sections of the path float in mid-air with no support. NEAT. Cue my scribbling across my tablet in order to randomly delete sections of the elevated path.
Somewhere in the mix, I deleted the Quagga fence, and they were FREE D:
So I decided to randomly place about 400 animals around the zoo, knock down all the fences, and watch what would happen. Apparently, the animals attack and kill each other when they're hungry enough, and while all this madness was going on, the guests managed to escape the zoo, and I watched at my 400 animals dwindled to 200, then to 100, then I noticed that there was actually one guest remaining. Meet Krishna:
Little Krishna was found with all her needs at 'critical.' Unfortunately, unlike with the Sims, Microsoft games don't allow their ambient humans to keel over for a nap in the middle of a random strip of arctic tundra, or urinate upon a plat of fertile savanna. And so, exhausted and constipated, little Krishna ran around waving her arms and screaming. In her 'doing' window, she could often be seen running away from one of the remaining ~100 animals, though every once in awhile, the phrase 'leaving zoo' would pop up there. She tried. God, did she try. However, not only had I fenced off the exit so there could be no escape, but every time she took a couple steps, she found some other animal chasing her. The screaming and the running renewed.
A view of the zoo, featuring (among other things) carcasses of killed animals, Krishna, dead whales, an elephant, floating elevated pathways,and several different biomes all meshed together in a glorious array:
Eventually, Krishna disappeared. I know she didn't exit the zoo, since it was fenced off, so I can only assume that one of the lions got sick of the screaming and ate her. Alas.
I guess I'd be happy, too, if I was a lioness surrounded by carcasses.
It started innocently enough.
I build a maze of raised paths all over the zoo, which zoo guests could not find their way out of. Being a kind-hearted soul, I placed bathrooms here and there, and the odd hamburger stand. Eventually, I took out the plow tool in order to delete part of the path, only to discover that you could make various sections of the path float in mid-air with no support. NEAT. Cue my scribbling across my tablet in order to randomly delete sections of the elevated path.
Somewhere in the mix, I deleted the Quagga fence, and they were FREE D:
So I decided to randomly place about 400 animals around the zoo, knock down all the fences, and watch what would happen. Apparently, the animals attack and kill each other when they're hungry enough, and while all this madness was going on, the guests managed to escape the zoo, and I watched at my 400 animals dwindled to 200, then to 100, then I noticed that there was actually one guest remaining. Meet Krishna:
Little Krishna was found with all her needs at 'critical.' Unfortunately, unlike with the Sims, Microsoft games don't allow their ambient humans to keel over for a nap in the middle of a random strip of arctic tundra, or urinate upon a plat of fertile savanna. And so, exhausted and constipated, little Krishna ran around waving her arms and screaming. In her 'doing' window, she could often be seen running away from one of the remaining ~100 animals, though every once in awhile, the phrase 'leaving zoo' would pop up there. She tried. God, did she try. However, not only had I fenced off the exit so there could be no escape, but every time she took a couple steps, she found some other animal chasing her. The screaming and the running renewed.
A view of the zoo, featuring (among other things) carcasses of killed animals, Krishna, dead whales, an elephant, floating elevated pathways,and several different biomes all meshed together in a glorious array:
Eventually, Krishna disappeared. I know she didn't exit the zoo, since it was fenced off, so I can only assume that one of the lions got sick of the screaming and ate her. Alas.
I guess I'd be happy, too, if I was a lioness surrounded by carcasses.