Winter 2023 DLC Speculation

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
Orkan said:
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Captain Callum

Captain Callum
DarthQuell said:
Speaking of otters, I would love an update to have to edit water salinity. Species, like the Crocs, can tolerate fresh or saltwater, while others, like the pinnipeds, require saltwater, and then some, like hippos, need fresh water. Just a thought
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I think the main reason why we don't have options to choose water salinity is to remove an unnecessary step of micromanagement in habitat building. It's not a good idea to have a gameplay feature that could kill animals due to wrong salinity, a player who has no idea what salinity means is not going to know how to fix it.
 

NachoB

NachoB
Captain Callum said:
I think the main reason why we don't have options to choose water salinity is to remove an unnecessary step of micromanagement in habitat building. It's not a good idea to have a gameplay feature that could kill animals due to wrong salinity, a player who has no idea what salinity means is not going to know how to fix it.
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I play in sandbox so i really don't care about this stuff but how would this be different from the temperature factor? Water cleansing? Or diseases? You do have to regulate these as well right?
 

SalamAnders

SalamAnders
If this game overall had more depth in the management I could see the purpose. Saltwater would be more expensive to run and would need larger areas with pumps and filtrating that require more skilled staff to maintain or whatever. Not something for a low-budget zoo.

But in the game, as we know it it would end up as another switch that is kind of fun to click on the first 5 times and then slowly becomes annoying over time.
 

Cynogale bennettii II

Cynogale bennettii II
With regards to a new otter, the Eurasian otter is definitely my favourite option. It has an enormous range (as shown in post #7,477 on the previous page) and would be an ideal midpoint between the giant and small-clawed otters, being a medium-sized and mostly solitary species. A major thing that could also be going for them is that it could easily be argued that they would be able to use all seven biomes in the game:
  • Aquatic - The most obvious one; they can live practically anywhere so long as there is water present.
  • Desert - Eurasian otters can live in rivers flowing through very arid regions, including in western Iraq and on the southern slopes of the Moroccan Atlas Mountains where the rivers flow into the Sahara (this is the most arid place any otter species lives)
  • Grassland - Eurasian otters have been found living in sometimes quite small rivers flowing through European meadow and steppe habitats, and also in the drier woodlands of India (which I believe fall under the grassland biome in-game)
  • Taiga - This species of otter can live in almost any coniferous forest throughout northern Eurasia, provided there is plentiful water.
  • Temperate - Again, temperate woodlands in Europe and East Asia can be home to Eurasian otters.
  • Tropical - This species can live in jungle rivers in Southeast Asia, often living alongside the Asian small-clawed otter (plus the smooth-coated and hairy-nosed otters as well).
  • Tundra - The Eurasian otter is one of the most commonly-encountered mammals on the Varanger Peninsula, on the northernmost tip of Norway, well within the Arctic Circle and with a tundra climate.
 
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