Oh, we all hope for that. I really hope that we can have 5 years of content. By 2024, I'm sure all the unique species will be used up, and in 2024 onwards we may get more "reskins/clones", like Indian leopard, or swift fox, etc.
Just curious, but do you have any theories of what future PlanCo games would revolve around?
I think the same like you! New generation is now really starting, probably in 1 or 2 years ps5 and xbox series x would be more accesible. Also we dont know how long will be this generation due the issues of the pandemic producing less consoles.
I'd love it if we got another 2 years of content, even without adding fully aquatic animals - but I'd like to see flying type birds for sure. Even if they don't actually fly in the game. Either way, 2 years of more content sounds great. I know back in the games release we were all hopeful for content from 2020 and 2021 and after that who knew. Then the game continued to be improved and profitable and adding 2022 seemed like it was more and more sure. That happened and it's quite likely we'll get content for all of 2023, something that 3 years ago I would have only thought out in my own wildest dreams, and almost surely an impossibility. And content for 2024 - thoughts in 2020 wasn't even thinking that could possibly happened, and to be honestly in 2021 there was not much thought to 2023 at very latest. We're to that point now. Another great year of sales and content for 2023 can make 2024 happen, and I'm so hopeful it will.
I'd actually rather a dedicated game for aquariums, making working interiors is pretty hard in planet zoo. Making an interior look good is an even harder task without 50 spot lights to create a half decently lit aquarium building. A game which has major steps in improving interior design and usability along with complex tank mechanics would be great to have.
Honestly the same. I’m not against them being added to planet zoo, but if we get content like we have so far, even 4 packs worth would be about 25-30 animals. At very most.
'Creative management simulation' definitely sounds like an expansion to the Planco universe
I'm pretty sure that will mean another Planet game, PlanCo or otherwise.
As a dev I see multiple reasons that I've mentioned earlier so I'm not repeating myself here
But besides those that I already mentioned, looking just at the number of staff is a big trap tons of projects fall into. Like, we have entire studies, laws and books about this stuff. You need to look at which level that staff is, you need to have an idea of the skill set that comes with your staff (character designers vs scenery designers), you have things like increasing salaries which might mean that a dev gets too expensive to work on a certain project (happened to me for instance), just overal interests of your staff etc. etc. etc.Just to give an example here, this is really not that simple as you describe it here. If you want to have some form of continuous support, you can't switch up teams as easily as you describe it. Depending on the complexity of a project it can take 3 months before a new developer reaches an output of 80%. And depending on your hires (most of the time the hires you have are junior devs, medior devs are hard to find and senior devs are extremely hard to find), some of them won't ever reach an output of 80% in the first few years. I've seen plenty of projects get severely delayed or go massively over budget by switching up teams the way you describe it,simply because of how complex such things become in practice.
My thoughts are what so many of us are already coming up with, birds with flying animations in the Walkthrough Exhibits. And hopefully, but no guarantee, more like the butterflies than the bat - several species of the same type of bird. Even just 2 species of the same type would work for me, although I'd prefer more Macaws specifically. There's so much to choose from - my foremost thoughts, Eagles, Macaws, Cockatoos and Toucans, then a second tier of wants with Hornbills, Kingfishers (Kookaburra), Woodpeckers and Owls, and a final tier of Falcons, Hawks, Humingbirds and even Lorikeets - edited the last one, I knew there was one I was forgetting!.
As a dev I see multiple reasons that I've mentioned earlier so I'm not repeating myself here
Just to give an example here, this is really not that simple as you describe it here. If you want to have some form of continuous support, you can't switch up teams as easily as you describe it. Depending on the complexity of a project it can take 3 months before a new developer reaches an output of 80%. And depending on your hires (most of the time the hires you have are junior devs, medior devs are hard to find and senior devs are extremely hard to find), some of them won't ever reach an output of 80% in the first few years. I've seen plenty of projects get severely delayed or go massively over budget by switching up teams the way you describe it,simply because of how complex such things become in practice.
In the end, decisions regarding support are never simple and are influenced by a multitude of parameters, many of which we don't know anything about and the ones (beside profit) we have an idea of we have absolutely no insight on. So I often see people say "I see no reason", but that doesn't mean there isn't a reason, it simply means we oftentimes can't think of the reason(s).
(I really don't want to come across as hostile or know-it-all here, I sincerely apologize if I do, I've went back and forth on a lot of this and rephrased a lot, I'm just weighing in from the perspective I have.)
