Agreed. Flying birds is one thing. Ducks and other waterfowl is another.
Oh man, now I'm picturing that, if we were to get ducks, I'm confident we'll get, in the update, animal feeding stations
Map of the entire roster by (approximate) animal distribution
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Oh man, now I'm picturing that, if we were to get ducks, I'm confident we'll get, in the update, animal feeding stations
+ Indian crested porcupine. It also provides a golden opportunity to add a crested porcupine to the game, which is highly requested. It is the most common zoo porcupine in the Old World by far. Perhaps also the most common West Asian zoo animal in Old World zoos (except species like boar and deer which are also found in Europe).
+ Veiled chameleon as an exhibit animal. Chameleons are the most wanted exhibit animals by the community. This species is the most common chameleon in Old World zoos and is endemic to the Middle East. Another perfect opportunity to cross off highly requested animals from wish lists.
- Sand cat
- Indian crested porcupine
- Onager
And totally happy
Considered the Arabian oryx but that's another oryx when we already have 2.
I would add the majority of birds as a WE would be highly disappointing since that means we cannot make realistically sized aviaries for both small birds and free flight aviaries alike
That's historic, there are no Crocodiles in the Middle East anymore, unless you count Egypt as part of the Middle East. There was a small population in southern Levant in the past, but this population no longer exists.
Hey all,
If anyone is wondering how would look entire roster coverage by full habitat range (excluding exhibits), I made a quick example, overlaying all maps from zoopedia:
It's not perfect, but gives an idea about areas that could be more represented.
Every species layer is having only 10% transparency, so when colours getting darker that means more species are overlapping.
Here is Base Game coverage:
And DLC & Anniversary coverage:
If anyone is wondering how would look entire roster coverage by full habitat range (excluding exhibits), I made a quick example, overlaying all maps from zoopedia:
It's not perfect, but gives an idea about areas that could be more represented.
Every species layer is having only 10% transparency, so when colours getting darker that means more species are overlapping.
Here is Base Game coverage:
And DLC & Anniversary coverage:
That's a better map than the one I saw last week or so from Reddit, I can actually tell what areas seem to lack animals so areas then I can tell are in need of some animals are:
- Oceania generally especially representation in new Zealand and papua new guinea
- Eastern Asia - china, Japan and Korea
- Southern south America like Chile, Argentina, Peru regions
- Madagascar
- The Carribbean
- Certain areas of Africa - west central Africa and north seems to stick out
South America is the only issue with maps like this, south and central America are poorly represented ingame when one actually tries to build an exclusive area for them
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Amazing! What software did you use?
Thanks!
Basically I just google closest looking world map to this one in game and add it with 100 print screens to the Gimp (I have Photoshop, but I'm not big fan of it), and spend two evenings adjusting sizes (there I discovered how some of the in games maps are totally crap, like for Clouded Leopard).
I think it could look more accurate if certain areas that need less species to be fully represented I would make darker (and opposite), but that's at the moment to much calculation for me.
Great map! Really does a great job of showing the regions that have most species! Two minor things:
- Is theee any chance of a scale
- red might work better to show the areas with less representation than green since it’s have better contrast.
Thanks!
Actually, original map was red like in game maps, I swap it to green, cos naturally more green means more positive - more species. Here's in red:
About the scale, you mean colour grading showing more or less how many species is which shade? That's possible, just need to think how to do it that can be easy to read.
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I added scale, only up to 10, because later on shades are starting to blend to much. I hope it's helpful.
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The map gives the illusion that South America is one of the better represented areas... is that because most of the species we have have large, overlapping ranges?
Regardless, awesome visualization. I agree that it's much better than the similar one from Reddit recently that included exhibits.
Regardless, awesome visualization. I agree that it's much better than the similar one from Reddit recently that included exhibits.
Yes, for example Cougar has the biggest range in SA even that came in NA pack, other species beacuse of lack of natural borders have also pretty wide range, so it's a bigger overlap than in other areas.
We would need to come with some sort of key, to make it visually more accurate, maybe 5% opacity per layer on areas like SA according to their biodiversity, and 15% for regions like Australia...
Weighing it based on biodiversity makes sense. How about also weighing the opacity based on the size of the range? So that, for example, the cougar or red fox would do little to add to the shade of their range, but the komodo dragon or red ruffed lemur would darken theirs more significantly. Of course this is just extra work, I'm just spitballing here.
I think that its better to keep as-is, rather than weight by biodiversity, unless you can come up with a good metric - Raw biodiversity wouldn't be great, since invertebrates, birds and small mammals would skew things in comparison to what you'd want to compare against (potential habitat animals). First, you'd need to have an estimate of large-enough mammals (wouldn't be to hard to find), but then also (maybe) add in potential birds and reptiles (i.e., you'd have to make choices about whether to include all the penguins, peafowl, cranes, flamingos, crocodilians and monitors), and then you'd have to decide at what level to assess diversity (subspecies? species? genera?).
If I were doing it, i'd probably ignore the birds and reptiles (just for ease of calculating), and estimate diversity as something lke mammalian genera. Why measure at the genus level? Well, for example, check out a map of bat diversity and see how heavily it'd blow-out diversity for SA compared to everywhere else.
The red is actually easier to tell the difference between the overlapping ranges. Comparing the African grasslands to the south American rainforest at full zoom you can easily see the sheer difference of overlaps. The south American overlaps are very few which shows us that these animals have a much larger uninterrupted range compared to the African overlaps which have far more but the range is rather fragmented
East China seems quite empty compared to anything else on the map so it would be great if they could fill it up with Perè David’s deer and Golden takin
Also the colder parts of South America could use Vicuña, mara and rhea - most of the zoos in Europe has an exhibit like this.
East Asia (more specifically, East China), just like the British Isles, look so empty because they have experienced intense human activity and specially industrialization for centuries, there aren't many true natural areas left, and less well preserved complete ecosystems. The deer won't solve that emptiness because is an extinct in the wild species, discovered to science when already on captivity. I think it even shouldn't have a distribution map in Zoopedia, and I don't know how much do we know about its historical range, but I suspect they had been struggling in the wild for long time before its extinction. And then the takin shares habitat with both pandas and some other animals already in PZ, probably it would only increase the intense colour spot in the NE Himalayas and SW China.East China seems quite empty compared to anything else on the map so it would be great if they could fill it up with Perè David’s deer and Golden takin
Also the colder parts of South America could use Vicuña, mara and rhea - most of the zoos in Europe has an exhibit like this.
(Anyway I would like both species in game
) Similar things (dense population, severe deforestation) happen with Central Madagascar or Southern Nigeria (e.g.), they are notoriously empty surrounded by dark colour areas... But it would be difficult to find species that solve it.
But then the map clearly shows other areas with remarkable biodiversity but lacking representation in the game or IRL zoos, such as the Caribbean, Java or New Zealand. A wonderful work @call me Omi !!
Notice how all these are Islands. Maybe they were left out intentionally and there is an Islands Pack coming at some point? We can include Madagascar and New Guinea in this definition, they too aren't very saturated in colour.