Reputation & Paths
Reputation is your zoo's long-term public standing. It is separate from popularity: popularity drives current visitors, while reputation changes more slowly from care quality, safety, and zoo growth.
Reputation score
Your reputation score runs from 0 to 1,000.
The tick worker adjusts it from:
- average animal health,
- average enclosure cleanliness,
- average enclosure maintenance,
- popularity,
- species variety,
- active incidents,
- sick animals,
- recent deaths,
- and whether the zoo has any living animals.
Per-tick movement is capped, so one good hour cannot instantly make a new zoo famous and one bad tick cannot erase all progress.
Tiers
| Score | Tier |
|---|---|
| 0+ | Unknown Zoo |
| 150+ | Local Favourite |
| 350+ | Regional Name |
| 650+ | National Destination |
| 900+ | Global Icon |
Higher tiers give small visitor multipliers, topping out at +12% visitors for Global Icon.
Reputation paths
Once your zoo reaches 150 popularity and 3 achievements, Profile lets you choose one permanent v1 reputation path.
| Path | Focus | Passive bonus |
|---|---|---|
| Conservationist | Welfare, health, cleanliness | +5% care-based popularity contribution |
| Showman | Attractions and spectacle | +5% attraction-based popularity contribution |
| Tycoon | Revenue and efficiency | +5% ticket revenue and 5% lower worker salaries |
| Breeder | Births and lineage | 5% lower breeding care fees |
Path choice also gently biases some generated quests toward your playstyle without removing normal quest variety.
Where to see it
- Profile shows path eligibility, available path choices, and the chosen path.
- Public profile pages show the chosen path.
- Society shows current reputation score and tier.
- Leaderboards includes a reputation leaderboard.