and please make it possible to keep Exhibit Animals in a big Tropical House. Flying Swarm of Brazilian Wandering Spiders
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and please make it possible to keep Exhibit Animals in a big Tropical House. Flying Swarm of Brazilian Wandering Spiders
(with cabbage trees at least).At first I thought the Tasmanian Devil Picture was a real Photo. Really great Quality
Same, that image looks almost photorealistic. The last packs have been absolute bangers in terms of animal design, one gorgeous animal after the other.At first I thought the Tasmanian Devil Picture was a real Photo. Really great Quality
Pro-Tip for anyone disappointed that the temperate Oceania map is on islands - if you select one of the pre-set height maps (not the sculpted map) it gives you a much bigger area to work with. It's still on an island, but given the room it's easier to hide. So that's something. All you need to do is flatten the pre-set terrain work to start from scratch.
But please, please, please Frontier find a way to add in the standard temperate biome map to this region!
But please, please, please Frontier find a way to add in the standard temperate biome map to this region!
I'm just going to repost this here from another member so the devs hopefully see it:
Frontier, what the hell?
Frontier, what the hell?
I cant wait to get my hands on that pack i have every pack for planet zoo and i love playing it makeing habitates and interacting with the animals makes me smile everyday
Counterpoint: no region in the game has naming conventions accurate to the in-depth local cultures. They are all on a continental scale.
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New Zealand doesn't have Australian Aboriginal people. Do North American animals get Australian Aboriginal names? Do European animals?
Edit: A lot of North American animals receive indigenous American names, though. All the Asian and African animals get names in languages from Asia and Africa.
Maori is NZ's only native culture. It wouldn't be that hard to find a selection of names online and put them in the filter.
No, but the names are set to match their continental tags. A North African animal can end up with a name based on something cultural from Sub-Saharan Africa.
So why shouldn't I want them to add Maori names to Oceanian animals then?
And Oceanian animals get names from oceanian languages. The problem is that you treat other continents as monoliths. Lots of animals in the game get names from culture thousands of kilometers away from them (Japanese macaque is a notable one).
So while I'd be happy if they'd be adding Maori name pool for the kiwi, it's weird to protest it now considering the "generic culture continental names" have been a problem since base game.
We haven't had any NZ animals until now, so why would I protest it before now?
I mean the fact that animals have names from culture unrelated to them. The Japanese macaque gets chinese names, north african animals get sub-saharan names...
I get why the kiwi names would spark the debate, but it's weird to have it so late into development.
We're protesting it now because it affects us as New Zealanders, I'm sure previous people have also put in a word for their animals being named poorly, the thing is that while dialects are different even within the same continent, I know. Especially in just meer theming they still work, they still 'feel' their areas (asian, etc). Maori is a vastly different language to the Australian Aboriginals native language, infact most polyneasian langauges are vastly different.
It's pretty late here so my wording may not be the best.
What I'm trying to say is that we aren't saying it should ONLY be for the kiwi or anything. And we are bringing it up as (If it isnt obvious) New Zealands birds are such a large part of our culture, and maori is so under-represented in games, that it feels really unfair that it isnt even IN the pool at all.
It really wouldn't be so hard for them to go in and add a few new lines to their text file with a few Maori names like Aroha and stuff. It's the least they can do in a pack that is featured around polyneasian culture.
That's just cultural ignorance. The grouping of east-asian names feels right to you as an outsider, that's used to the region "feeling asian" as you said.
So take that perspective, and see that to the Frontier developers in the UK all Oceanian cultures are equally far away from there and "feel right" lumped together.
I for one would love them to add proper maori name catalogue, but I also think it's not as big an issue as is being made of it. It's not like animals actually care for which exact local human culture destroyed their habitat.
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I think that what some people are trying to say is that Frontier can add Maori names to the Oceanian pool of names, but then we can get a dingo with a maori name and a kiwi with an Australian name because the names are assigned to the animals in base of their continent, not their region, and this is happening with all other cultures too.