Giants DLC pack idea

ThongZooPlayer

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I love the Twilight pack but I have heard people hate how it only contains a list of small animals only.

How about a totally opposite? A pack consists of animals that have something that is big?

Giants Animal Pack:
  • Alligator Snapping Turtle - one of the heaviest freshwater turtles. - North America countries
  • Black Rhinoceros - a typically large animal. Africa
  • Coconut Crab - largest terrestrial arthropod in the world - Exhibit Animal
  • Common Eland - second-largest antelope in the world. Africa.
  • Crested Argus - Bird with the second-longest tail. But notably bigger tail than the Reeves Pheasant - South East Asia countries.
  • Wild Turkey - Heaviest ground-feeding bird - North America countries.
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I wanted a walkthrough exhibit animal over Coconut Crab, but can't think of any. I did think of waterfowls, but they may fit the Tundra or Avian pack better.

Add the suggestions from the comments below:
  • Indian Gaur. India. Largest species among the wild cattle and the Bovidae. 250 to 330 cm body length.
  • Japanese or Chinese Giant Salamander. Largest living amphibians. 1.8 m in length.
  • European bison (largest terrestrial animal in Europe) 2.8 to 3.3 m in length. 615 to 920 kg
  • Walrus (giant mustaches and tusks). 2,000 kg. Arctic Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. Third heaviest pinnipeds species.
  • Southern Elephant Seal. 5,000 kg. Largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora. 1,500 to 3,700 kg and grow to 4.2 to 5.8 m in length.
  • Dalmatian pelican. Largest member of the pelican family, and perhaps the world's largest freshwater bird, although rivaled in weight and length by the largest swans. 1.6 to 1.8m in length, 7.25–15 kg in weight and 2.4 to 3.5 m in wingspan
  • Green anaconda or reticulated python (E)
 
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ReptoMin

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ThongZooPlayer said:
I love the Twilight pack but I have heard people hate how it only contains a list of small animals only.

How about a totally opposite? A pack consists of animals that have something that is big?

Giants Animal Pack:
  • Alligator Snapping Turtle - one of the heaviest freshwater turtles. - North America countries
  • Black Rhinoceros - a typically large animal. Africa
  • Coconut Crab - largest terrestrial arthropod in the world - Exhibit Animal
  • Common Eland - second-largest antelope in the world. Africa.
  • Crested Argus - Bird with the second-longest tail. But notably bigger tail than the Reeves Pheasant - South East Asia countries.
  • Wild Turkey - Heaviest ground-feeding bird - North America countries.
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I wanted a walkthrough exhibit animal over Coconut Crab, but can't think of any. I did think of waterfowls, but they may fit the Tundra or Avian pack better.
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Pack looks solid, but I would swap Snapping Turtle and Coconut Crab, since the latter is easier to do with current Habitat Mechanics. It is impossible to make Habitat Snapping Turtles with current Mechanics. They need to be resting on the bottom of water 99% of the time and currently this will be 0% because there is no Resting Underwater in the Game as it stands. Diving Depth Requirement will yet be another problem for these guys... It'd look as odd as having Habitat Songbirds with current mechanics..
 

DragonNTiger

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ReptoMin said:
Pack looks solid, but I would swap Snapping Turtle and Coconut Crab, since the latter is easier to do with current Habitat Mechanics. It is impossible to make Habitat Snapping Turtles with current Mechanics. They need to be resting on the bottom of water 99% of the time and currently this will be 0% because there is no Resting Underwater in the Game as it stands. Diving Depth Requirement will yet be another problem for these guys... It'd look as odd as having Habitat Songbirds with current mechanics..
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Sounds less like a mechanic and more like programming a percentage of time they spend doing a certain thing... also, it wouldn't be the first animal to display unrealistic behavior.
 

ReptoMin

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DragonNTiger said:
also, it wouldn't be the first animal to display unrealistic behavior.
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It is true that there are a lot of Animals in the Game that display unrealistic Behaviour. But this is on another Level. That is why I gave the Habitat Songbird Example. There is always a Threshold where things can Barely be Acceptable or not. For instance we can barely accept Koalas the way they are in the Game (minus the Enrichment Bug), but Sloths acting the same would be unbearable. I believe PZ Developers seek out these Limits. In any case, the best Habitat Solution for Snapping Turtles would be adding Bottom Resting Behaviours that don't necessarily need a Diving Depth Requirement in a Free Update for Crocodilians and adding a Snapping Turtle in a DLC at the same time but coded to use this Behaviour most of the time (more so than Crocodilians or other Bottom Resting Animals in general). Then Snapping Turtles can jump to that Category of being Barely Acceptable, while still not being very Realistic. With what we have right now they would be like Sea Turtles in a Swamp. We could as well have Galloping Sloths at that point. 😁
 

FlameWizard492

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Other suggestions
  • Indian Gaur or Banteng as the largest bovid (whichever is bigger).
  • Japanese or Chinese Giant Salamander
  • Whatever the biggest species of its genus is. I'm out of ideas
 

Aramar

Aramar
My giants DLC:

-European bison (largest terrestrial animal in Europe)
-Walrus (giant mustaches and tusks)
-Common eland (I think the giant eland is less common in zoos)
-Dalmatian pelican (largest pelican species I think)
-Green anaconda or reticulated python (E)
 

FlameWizard492

FlameWizard492
Aramar said:
My giants DLC:

-European bison (largest terrestrial animal in Europe)
-Walrus (giant mustaches and tusks)
-Common eland (I think the giant eland is less common in zoos)
-Dalmatian pelican (largest pelican species I think)
-Green anaconda or reticulated python (E)
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Plus, the walrus is also the largest pinniped.
 

ThongZooPlayer

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Aramar said:
My giants DLC:

-European bison (largest terrestrial animal in Europe)
-Walrus (giant mustaches and tusks)
-Common eland (I think the giant eland is less common in zoos)
-Dalmatian pelican (largest pelican species I think)
-Green anaconda or reticulated python (E)
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I did have Common Eland. My city zoo actually have like 6 of them.
Green Anaconda, Reticulated Python: I do hope Frontier add a bigger exhibit for them, or find a way with the Walkthrough Exhibit. I don't these big guys suit the 4m x 4m exhibit.
 

ThongZooPlayer

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Thanks for your suggestion. Though I really wonder if such a pack would appeal to many. I would fear something like Elephant Seal would be another Polar Bear: Too big and need a big land for their habitats. But overall I learnt a lot from this thread. :D
 
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