Read how my (semi- angry) affair with Tiny Zoo started in Part 1.
The Bitch sent me an invitation to download Tiny Zoo so that she could get 10 Tiny Zoo bucks. Being the kind and helpful girlfriend that I am, I downloaded the game, wrote her name as the recruiter, so we both received 10 Tiny Zoo bucks. Ka-ching!
Now what should I do with these bucks? I started playing Tiny Zoo myself, it being the October Golden Week National Day holidays in China anyway.
There are so many cute animals to buy for my zoo. With papa bear and mama bear, I can breed 2 baby bears! When the whole family is complete, the animals animate when I touch them! And I can cross-breed Black Bears with African Elephants to get Woolly Mammoths! Misleading for the kids, but interesting way to create hybrid animals in Tiny Zoo. We can also create “Collections” of animals to unlock new animals as well as exclusive awards such as Tiny Zoo bucks and XP (experience) points. For example, the “Furry Friends” collection includes Bears, Chimps, Camels and Lions. Once I have complete families for these “Furry Friends”, I will be rewarded with 1 buck, 4016 XP and unlock a new animal!
Other than animals, I’ve also set up shops and decorations for my Tiny Zoo. It’s too soon to say whether my interest in this game will wane after the holidays, but I’ve already reached Level 17 in just 4 days!
But it’s a no-brainer fluffy game you say? Quite the contrary. Different animals provide you with different values. For instance, the Snow Leopard collects 1.5K coins and 300 xp every 5 hours and costs 9 bucks. The American Bison collects 5K coins and 400 xp every 20h and costs 4,999 coins. Which would you rather buy? Shops work pretty much the same way too. With the limited space in your zoo and if you’re on the quest to expand as quickly as you can, building a strategy is needed to get maximum returns from the animals and shops you purchase. It is a business simulation game afterall, with the Zoo being your business.
The Bitch chose to make her zoo as lucrative as possible, and has blocked out Zoo visitors (tiny people who come and look at your animals but contribute nothing) and made use of every acre of zoo land space to be money-making, be it shops or animals. I, on the other hand, feel happy when there are tiny people visiting my Zoo although they are absolutely useless to my business. I’ve built them gravel pathways to be able to view every animal and visit shops like Panda Gift Shop, Monkey Shop, and eat ice-cream at the Ice Cream Parlor. Once I expand the zoo, I’ll build a children’s play area and make my Tiny Zoo look fun and more like a Zoo!
After all, I’m already too late to join in the “global” race like how The Bitch is (in the Top 5. GLOBALLY.). 
