Hi community,
I have recently finished the McKinsey Solve game, with ecosystem being the first game and Red rock study being the second.
My question is on the ecosystem game. I have also seen people raising this issue recently on this forum, so would be interested to hear other people's experiences.
I am pretty sure I understand the rules of the game, hence I started out pick the 3 producers with the highest calories provided to start. However only 4 animals can survive in that condition (out of the 10 animals in that same environment, I'm pretty sure 6 of them violates the rule one way or the other).
I panicked a bit, but after double checking that this eco-system was unstable, I switched to another set of producers with 15min left on the clock.
The second ecosystem was easier to build, and I was able to find 5 animals, on top of the 3 producers to finish the system. However, in this sustainable system, one producer was not eaten by anyone (there's one animal the can use this ‘uneaten’ producer as food source, but since the other viable producer had higher calories provided, this producer remained ‘uneaten’)
Here's my question:
1. Has other people experienced this ‘unsolvable' ecosystem in one of the 3 sets of producers? Online guides generally stated all set of producers should be viable, which leads me to think maybe McK tweaked their game (ie calories, or food sources) to make the game harder?
2. Has anyone else get this scenario like me where one particular producer was ‘uneaten’, but still managed to find 5 animals to create this 8 species ecosystem, I'm assuming this is also okay, but I was in a rush to finish the game and now am a bit unsure!
Thanks!
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