Nocturnal House Animal Pack and Update

RedPandaReggie

RedPandaReggie
YesIndeed said:
Personally I go for some different animals and some from those pack ideas. I think that these would work well:

Tasmanian devil
Brushtail possum
Southern tamandua
Sulewesi bear cuscus
Eurasian Eagle owl or Barn owl
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A cuscus and a possum, I think the marsupials are a little overdone in this idea, maybe something like a prosimian would be good to boost diversity instead of one of the possums at least, and a viverrid too like a civet, linsang or genet
 

RedPandaReggie

RedPandaReggie
Pinguin said:
Maybe put Kiwi instead of something, because this is all mammals again. :)
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Maybe instead of the cuscus, though kiwi still feels more islands, it does feel right to have it in this pack, so I will formulate a final design of what I think is best, and I will see what you guys think
 

RedPandaReggie

RedPandaReggie
The top half is habitat animals and the bottom half is exhibit animals, just to avoid confusion, the all would technically be in the aforementioned nocturnal enclosures discussed at the start of the thread
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RedPandaReggie

RedPandaReggie
NachoB said:
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Loved it. Would buy instantly.
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I would personally be very happy with a Nocturnal House Animal Pack that looked like that, as it has great diversity of animals. A lemur, a bird, an anteater, a prehensile tailed omnivore, a large rodent, a civet, a much smaller prosimian, a small burrowing animal, a bat and an owl, what more can you really want other than a few other species, but 10 species is pushing it, if I were to condense it to 8, I would probably drop the loris or civet, maybe the owl, save that for proper aviaries.
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
I think it's unlikely, but I'd be alright with the theme! For what we don't have now, we can still have a very strong lineup:

Crested Porcupine
Tasmanian Devil
Northern Brown Kiwi
Aye-Aye
Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat (one of the rarest mammals in the world!)
Ocelot
African Civet
WTE: Vampire Bat (I think the two toed sloth is too soon)

Noting too, while I'm all for adding in the Sulawesi Bear Cuscus, they aren't recorded as being nocturnal, unlike much of the rest of the Cuscus and Possums. I'd add a different species in but none of the others of them have hit that visual "button" of "this needs to be in the game!" like the SBC.
 

YesIndeed

YesIndeed
Was just thinking. If we got this I'd kinda like it to be followed up with a tropical house, reptile house, treetop house, aquatic house sorta pack. Either that or this be a scenery pack. I really need some nice indoor pieces. And I also really want a reptile house pack, stop judging me.
 

RedPandaReggie

RedPandaReggie
YesIndeed said:
Was just thinking. If we got this I'd kinda like it to be followed up with a tropical house, reptile house, treetop house, aquatic house sorta pack. Either that or this be a scenery pack. I really need some nice indoor pieces. And I also really want a reptile house pack, stop judging me.
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I will make one of those, and I'll post it on here, and see what you think
 

RedPandaReggie

RedPandaReggie
RightWhale said:
Geckos of course! But if I had another suggestion from down under, do something like the tawny frogmouth! Man the animal packs only having 8 animals feels so limiting :/
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Oh no I meant for potentially doing a Reptile House Animal Pack, as I have done the Nocturnal House, Reptile Houses still feel a bit underepresented, but either way those would be pretty good for this pack
 
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PnGLINNyo

PnGLINNyo
My take:

Fishing Cat
Raccoon Dog
Greater Bilby or Tasmanian Devil
African Crested Porcupine
WEx) Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth or Pygmy Slow Loris
 

The Carcharodontogenius

The Carcharodontogenius
RedPandaReggie said:
Despite receiving the Twilight Pack last year, it focused on primarily crepuscular animals and a Halloween theme. This Nocturnal House Animal Pack would focus on a variety of animals that can be applied to a nocturnal house within our zoos, and an update to make making them much easier.

Update:

Nocturnal Behaviours:
Some proper nocturnal behaviours would be good to see for many animals that we currently have like the Aardvark, Binturong, Fennec Fox, Raccoon and Common Wombat to name a few, where they would sleep through the day with a 95% chance of them being asleep during the day and a 5% chance of them being awake during the day, then at night the roles are reversed. This would add for better realism with nocturnal animals. This is something that could be implemented with the North Island Brown Kiwi if we were to get it before a pack like this, hence why it is not in the pack as I think it would better serve in an Islands Animal Pack alongside another famously nocturnal animal, the Tasmanian Devil.

Nocturnal Enclosures:
Something else that would be coming with this update would be the implementation of nocturnal enclosures of various sizes for different animals and different shapes too, this would allow for more variation. This coincides with another couple of features that I would like to see with the first being moving certain habitat animals between the habitat system and this large exhibit system, which basically means that they can exist in these smaller exhibits with their needs being met in different ways in an exhibit setting, but also allowing them to still move around, the Aardvark for example would need the larger versions of the nocturnal enclosures, as it is a large nocturnal animal that is often kept in nocturnal houses, the largest nocturnal enclosure could be around half the size of walkthrough exhibit and of course not as tall. These nocturnal enclosures would also have nocturnal light pieces and the ability to change the biome if it suits the animal that it houses. The Aardvark as an example would be able to have both a grassland and a tropical exhibit. The next feature is fully customisable exhibits, with a set of nocturnal enclosure items such as branches which are climbable and able hang on with animals with prehensile tails like Binturongs and the Kinkajou in my concept here. Being able to have exhibits of various shapes as well as sizes would be cool too, with the viewing window side able to be curved out or inward, the shape could be adjustable by the player, it would be cool.
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New Nocturnal Enrichment Items:
  1. Insect Tree: a small tree with insect larvae inside (allows the Aye-Aye to utilise its unique hunting technique)
  2. Firehose Hammock Small; Medium; Large (these can be placed as part of any climbing frame structure which is able to be used by arboreal species such as the Sulawesi Bear Cuscus and Kinkajou, as well as several primates like gibbons and lemurs)
  3. Hanging Feeder Small; Medium; Large (these are various sized hanging feeders with mesh tubes that contain different food sources such as fruit, meat and leaves, they can be used by many of the arboreal species in the pack)
  4. Natural Termite Mound Small (a smaller termite mound like the larger one used by the Giant Anteater, and could be updated to include the Aardvark, this small one can be used by the Southern Tamandua)
  5. Honey Dish (a dish with a pool of honey that can be used by the Kinkajou and Bears, maybe other animals too)
  6. Artificial Dens Small; Medium; Large (Wooden, Corrugated Iron, Corrugated Plastic and Concrete Tunnels that can be accessed by many of the games smaller animals like the carnivorous, omnivorous and insectivorous species.
  7. Hanging Tree House Small; Medium; Large (Threaded baskets that allow arboreal animals to sleep in as alternatives to large hard shelters)
  8. Overhead Tubes (these can be placed across guest paths and act as a bridge between nocturnal enclosures and can automatically count as a part of the enclosure and any exhibit that attach to is part of it, they come in mesh, acrylic and plastic)
That is my idea for a Nocturnal House Animal Pack and an accompanying update
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Nice idea.
 
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