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DLC18 discussion and predictions
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Just give me normal scenery packs.
The animals tend to be more unique, the scenery only gets better, we get much more plants and most importantly whoever says that the scenery we got in the last 2 years wasnt banger is straight up lying.
Id rather get completly new possibilitys for building then 3 more clones and no exhibit (and i normaly couldnt care less for exhibits)
I really loved the barnyard pack style. Scenery packs just have less animals, but having a pack with scenery and 7 animals seems fair unique!
Yeah like is no one gonna talk about how we literally got a THIRD PACK TYPE??.
And an AMAZING ONE!!!
Well barnyard is still classed as an animal pack so sort of? We thought the same with the grasslands pack being a new style of animal pack with more exhibit animals (like macaws) to then be let down by the arid pack in more ways than one.
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Arid Animal Pack, Will forever be the best worst pack we got.
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Just to clarify I never suggested flying birds would be for free but we need a base game WTE idc if it’s another bat or sloth or w/e
Temperate pack. Throw in 2 NA animals like the bear and porcupine to go with the theme and add two fitting animals from somewhere else like the a duck, a pheasant, a marten or echidna
A North American Habitat Bird And A Porcupine. I'm Fine With Anything Else.
I can only speak for what people that want another NA say since is not something i personally want nor need but the animals that usually come up are:
1. ABB
2. North American porcupine
3. Virginia Opossum
4. WTD
5. Elk
6. Sea Otter
7. Gray fox
8. Musk ox
9. Wild turkey
10. Roseatte spoonbill
11. American flamingo
12. Brown or American White pelican
And others that are usually mentioned: mountain goat, coyote, greater roadrunner, burrowing owl, sandhill crane, Big horned sheep, black footed ferret.
Honestly I've kinda given up on that hope, I'd rather just more animals, and seeing how support is probably wrapping up we'll probably never see a set like this.
We know at very least one more update this year is coming.
I wonder what that would be. You guys think will be something big like the last few updates? Could we finally be getting some improvement to exhibits after all this time?
I really hope the exhibit boxes get reworked, the popularity of it on my wishlist is so obvious, frontier would have to seriously hate the exhibits to not do it eventually. Personally I think we would get something sizeable in the update although not holding up my hopes up with how buggy these large features are.
I tend to see the two as separate themes.
- Northwest Coast scenery could come in a coastal pack featuring animals like the sea otter, walrus, sea turtle, manatee, pelican, and rockhopper penguin. Some land animals specific to that region would include the black bear, mountain goat, elk, porcupine, and waterfowl.
- The cabin/lodge/natural wood set could come with a temperate theme. I would definitely include the American black bear, but some other good animals could include a muntjac, turkey, pheasant, duck, European critter, barbary macaque, echidna, possum, snub-nosed monkey, Chinese alligator, and PD deer.
- Whatever else is still added for my continent, it will not be complete without the American black bear.
- We also currently have nothing for birds, so we ought to get at least one, probably two temperate birds. The North American wood duck is my favorite and a very strong contender due to its unusually high prevalence in both local and international zoos. A turkey would also be really good and could double in domestic areas. The wild ones look extremely similar to the domestic breeds. The brown pelican would be a good representative for both North and South America. It also has the added benefit of interspecies enrichment with both pinnipeds. If they ever start adding a ton of birds, a crane for Florida, a Canadian goose for international zoos, a great blue heron for ambiance, and a roadrunner for Looney Tunes fans would also be nice to have. The members of the pink trio occasionally stray into Florida, but of them, only the roseate spoonbill has a meaningful range.
- For flying birds, we definitely need the bald eagle. We share the awesome and adorable burrowing owl with South America. With at least Eurasia, we share a snowy owl, raven, peregrine falcon, ptarmigan, and golden eagle. Though I doubt they'll show up, we have some nice options for jays and passerines.
- I think the Rocky Mountains need one ungulate. The bighorn sheep is the most iconic (well-known and featured in media), the elk is the most common in zoos (it tends to be one of our local star animals), and the mountain goat is the most unique (modders might struggle with this one). They are all pretty good, and I think they tend to have a similar amount of votes. The white-tailed deer has a huge range, and it is the only ungulate for the Southeast. It is much more boring than the Rocky Mountain ungulates, but it could be nice to have for wildlife park/refuge/rehab facilities. I might dream of getting all of them, but I'm most likely going to settle for mods for most of them.
- We currently have an excellent to slightly overrepresented small mammal roster, but there are still some great options. My favorite happens to be the most popular, the sea otter. It isn't strictly necessary for regional rep and is far behind the North American river otter's zoo presence, but it is the most unique otter left. I think it would be a huge hit with the casual audience and is a near-essential member of any potential coastal pack. The bobcat, river otter, and North American porcupine are staples for local zoos, and the latter is popular abroad as well. International zoos also feature the Virginia opossum, but its lifespan is too short to work well in Planet Zoo. As much as I love the porcupine, I would prioritize small mammals from other regions before adding it. We also have the grey fox, a taxonomically interesting option for a canid, which we haven't gotten in a while. Fishers and ringtails would be cute oddballs.
- For the Arctic, the musk ox and walrus are both top 10 icons. I don't need them, but they are pretty good picks. I would not be surprised or unhappy to see one or both.
- If we're counting Central America, the ocelot, pink trio, spider monkey, and white-nosed coati are all strong contenders.
- For plants, I would like to see dogwoods and perhaps tulip poplar for the East; live oaks and trumpet pitcher plants for the Southeast; and some prairie flowers, including the bluebonnet, paintbrush, and purple coneflower.
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- Wood Duck or Wild Turkey
- White-Tailed Deer
- American Black Bear
- Grey Fox or Coyote
- Virginia Opossum
- Burrowing Owl
- Bobcat
- American Toad
I dont really know how this would funtion outside of sandbox, but id love to get the exhibit animals as essentially animated props.
If they then provided a nice selection of small exhibit items you could just build your own terrarium and place the animals where you want them.
Another very could thing that would be possible with this is building larger, or open habitats, like an outdoor enclosure for the tortoise, having the iguana "freeroaming" in your tropical hall or the bullfrogs at your pond.