Spring dlc Speculation 2023

Hey i got fun idea for everyone. In contrast to the nightmare ideas yoav_r brought up, what would be your absolute dream. You don't have to worry about how long things would take to develop or what the community would like. Just strictly what would be the perfect pack for you?
Honestly my absolute dream pack would be too much of a pipe dream at this point. An animal pack with a selection of fully aquatic habitat species and avian species, what the Wetlands Pack could (imo should) have been. With this said, a dream pack for me would be one that only introduced species from entirely unrepresented taxonomic Suborders or higher. And with Frontier’s tendencies in mind, I’d have to include some mammals and pick bird species that tend to be more “terrestrially” based.

My “realistic” dream pack would look something like this:

Biodiversity Pack:
1. Large semi-aquatic turtle (Alligator Snapping Turtle, Pig Nosed Turtle, Sea Turtle, etc.)
2. Lagomorph species (any of the numerous hares or rabbits)
3. Waterfowl species (any duck, goose, or swan)
4. Two-Toed Sloth species
5. Terrestrial Predatory Bird
(Burrowing Owl, Roadrunner, Secretary Bird, Southern Ground Hornbill, etc.)
6. Coconut Crab (Our only likely chance at a habitat species outside of Chordata. All of PZ’s current habitat roster is in Chordata)
7. Chinese Giant Salamander (would likely be our only habitat amphibian in PZ)
8. Hummingbird species (Walkthrough Exhibit)
 
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Hey i got fun idea for everyone. In contrast to the nightmare ideas yoav_r brought up, what would be your absolute dream. You don't have to worry about how long things would take to develop or what the community would like. Just strictly what would be the perfect pack for you?
For me is 100% the aviary pack. 25 new birds, habitat and aviary ones, with macaws, toucans, hornbills, owls, eagles, falcons, puffins, turacos, etc...
They are the last keystone for the game, at least for me. Imagine a stream like a continuation of Lumi's story, everything's alright but at the final of the tale a "Large blue-and-golden feather" falls from a tree, and nex day the "Feathers of the world expansion pack" is announced, including new aviaries with macaws, toucans, etc. and habitat birds like rheas, kiwis, ducks, swans and pelicans. That would be the best morning of my life for sure 😄
 
Hey i got fun idea for everyone. In contrast to the nightmare ideas yoav_r brought up, what would be your absolute dream. You don't have to worry about how long things would take to develop or what the community would like. Just strictly what would be the perfect pack for you?
Tropical Rainforest pack:
  • Pig Nosed Turtle
  • Victoria Crowned Pidgeon
  • Red River Hog/Low Land Anoa
  • De Brazas Monkey
  • Cotton Top Tamarin
  • South American Coati
  • West Indian Manatee
  • WE Rainbow lorikeets
2 monkeys, 2 new guinea animals, 2 aquatics, bird, reptile, lots of general use animals and props the coolest and most unique animal if they would add it to the game with the manatee.
Id legitimatly would be to the moon with such a pack
 
Let's do something different. What are reslistic "nightmare scenarios" for you regarding the nee dlc?

For me for example it would be an island pack that somehow gets a temperate focus and also focuses on animals that barely count as island dwellers. Like any domestic breed is not what I count as island endemic as the species in general is very much not island endemic (looking at you "scottish" highland cow).
A second armadillo (bleh)
A third tapir that looks indistinguishable from the one(two) we have now
An African Antelope
Kodiak Bear (a third Brown Bear!)
(Exhibit) Camel Spider
 
Rainforests Animal Pack
  • Linnaeus’/Hoffman’s Two Toed Sloth
  • Red River Hog
  • South American Coati
  • Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
  • Victoria Crowned Pigeon
  • Lar Gibbon
  • Red Faced Spider Monkey
  • Scarlet Macaw, Blue and Yellow Macaw, Military Macaw, African Grey Parrot and Spix’s Macaw (WE)
That's not bad actually... although I'd personally put the Tree Kangaroo in an Islands Animal pack... also, isn't the pigeon an aviary animal?

A second armadillo (bleh)
(Exhibit) Camel Spider
What's wrong with these two?!
 
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My dreams: primate pack, SA pack, bird pack
My nightmare: Domestic DLC without the highland cow and with the announcement that it's the last DLC
 
That's not bad actually... although I'd personally put the Tree Kangaroo in an Islands Animal pack... also, isn't the pigeon an aviary animal?


What's wrong with these two?!
I think if we get a Rainforests Pack before an Islands Pack, I’d like to see the TK. Just because we get it sooner, it satiates the needs of those that really wanted it AND leaves space in an Islands pack for a more versatile animal!
And in regards to the pigeon, whilst it can fly, it is largely terrestrial and VERY active on the ground, moving in a similar manner to the Peafowl already in game. It’s ‘flight’ can easily be implemented in the same way it has been for all habitat birds; using its jump mechanic and adding in the flapping of wings. Every time I’ve seen these birds, they’ve been strutting around on the ground in a tropical house - never have I seen one fly more than just to hop up a metre or two higher into a platform! So I think they’d be MUCH better off as habitat animals, much like all ground birds/wading birds that can fly but choose not too much!
 
Tropical Rainforest pack:
  • Pig Nosed Turtle
  • Victoria Crowned Pidgeon
  • Red River Hog/Low Land Anoa
  • De Brazas Monkey
  • Cotton Top Tamarin
  • South American Coati
  • West Indian Manatee
  • WE Rainbow lorikeets
2 monkeys, 2 new guinea animals, 2 aquatics, bird, reptile, lots of general use animals and props the coolest and most unique animal if they would add it to the game with the manatee.
Id legitimatly would be to the moon with such a pack
I'd appreciate such a pack. Good ideas!
 
Ok y'all, for a tropical and/or treetops pack, what monkey would y'all choose (this is assuming we get only 1 primate)

The problem for me is that there are too many great choices, especially for New World monkeys:
  1. Black howler monkey
  2. Bald uakari
  3. Geoffrey's spider monkey
  4. White-faced saki
In my opinion, having a DLC with all 4 species would be wonderful, but if I had to choose:





I'd take them all🤪
 
Ok y'all, for a tropical and/or treetops pack, what monkey would y'all choose (this is assuming we get only 1 primate)

The problem for me is that there are too many great choices, especially for New World monkeys:
  1. Black howler monkey
  2. Bald uakari
  3. Geoffrey's spider monkey
  4. White-faced saki
In my opinion, having a DLC with all 4 species would be wonderful, but if I had to choose:





I'd take them all🤪
I'd go with the spider monkey being the most unique option especially if we get new branchiation options
 
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