I don’t foresee another return to the Americas, however, I can see us getting another generic “round the world” pack that can add animals from the Americas.
Exactly, and my vibes tell me that South American rainforests should never hit green without an essential group such as birds, and macaws and toucans specifically. The lack of SA animals in real zoos as opposed to a fair biodiversity representation in-game has been discussed here, but if there's an animal from the region being kept usually...that's arboreal birds.
Even if I'm fine with the region turning yellow, the very definition of the Orange tier is expressed as "Regions which are still lacking compared to their biodiversity". I just believe that there are certain defining species whose absence should limit the color progression for the region indefinitely (monkeys and birds in this case) whether they're realistic to implement or not, so that it stays yellow even if we get the coati and however many other animals. Quality over quantity, sort of.
I don't agree honestly, I feel like we need at least one Philippine endemic to justify elevating the region to green. Otherwise, what's even the point of considering it distinct from the rest of south-east Asia?
sulawesi is the only point where native ungulates and marsupials exist and in general is such a unique hybrid of the 2 worlds that it really should be its own category especially if the phillipines gets its own section which in in my opinion is anymore biogeographically significant than anywhere else in south east asia.Speaking more on the broader south-east Asia region, I feel like there's a really good case for splitting Wallacea from Tropical South-east Asia in the same manner as the Philippines. Wallacea is the region of islands stretching between continental Asia and continental Australia - geologically they are part of neither continent, and biologically they are a mix of both, becoming more Asian as you head further west and more Australian as you head east. Given their isolation and unique position in-between two drastically different continents, the islands possess their own unique mix of flora and fauna including many endemic species and genera.
Species we currently have from Wallacea are:
1. North Sulawesi Babirusa (endemic)
2. Spectacled Flying-fox [WE]
3. Southern Cassowary (ancient introduction to Seram)
4. Saltwater Crocodile
5. Komodo Dragon (now endemic, also in Australia in prehistory)
6. Asian Water Monitor
Its current representation is surprisingly good for such an obscure region, even with only two of those species being endemic to the islands, so I think it'd be an easy green. To get it to blue I think all it needs is one or two more species from Sulawesi, which is the island in Wallacea with by far the greatest zoo relevance - options include the lowland anoa and Sulawesi crested macaque as well as the more rarely-kept Sulawesi bear cuscus and maleo.
Now that you mention it, I think it'd be cool to have crab-eating macaques in PZ as they're the most prominent example of a species that crossed the Wallace Line.
| continent | species remaining | species obtained | total | remaining holdings | holdings obtained | total |
| africa | 279 | 52 | 331 | 7837 | 12725 | 20562 |
| asia | 395 | 48 | 443 | 10212 | 11288 | 21500 |
| europe | 89 | 17 | 106 | 2755 | 5596 | 8351 |
| north america | 172 | 28 | 200 | 4398 | 5589 | 9987 |
| south america | 237 | 14 | 251 | 9443 | 2492 | 11935 |
| oceania | 121 | 8 | 129 | 1785 | 1453 | 3238 |
| antartica | 5 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| continent | proportion of total holdings | proportion of total species | representative index | species proportion ingame | holding proportion ingame |
| africa | 37% | 28% | 0.46 | 16% | 62% |
| asia | 38% | 37% | 0.56 | 11% | 53% |
| europe | 15% | 8.9% | 0.16 | 16% | 67% |
| north america | 18% | 17% | 0.27 | 14% | 56% |
| south america | 21% | 21% | 0.31 | 5.6% | 21% |
| oceania | 5.8% | 11% | 0.14 | 6.2% | 45% |
| antartica | 0.041% | 0.42% | 0.0044 | 0% | 0% |
| continent | current species proportion | species till match |
| africa | 43% | -18 |
| asia | 40% | -3 |
| europe | 14% | -6 |
| north america | 23% | -8 |
| south america | 11% | 11 |
| oceania | 6.6% | 5 |
| antartica | 0 | 0 |
I fully agree.
Personally, I don't think most of the animals you mentioned will make it into the game. Not because I want to. But because this game probably has two or three years left. Also, I don't want to talk about a hypothetical Planet Zoo 2 until Frontier says something about this game being over (and I'm really looking forward to the next Frontier Unlocked).
2 or 3 years seems very generous to be honest. I think its probably 2 or 3 packs max
Even that seems generous. Next one could be the last. Final bundle, round number of DLCs, next year new games come out and this year PC2 Will start getting DLCs. I think this time for real all signs point to next DLC being the very least one.
You're missing quite a few small mammals for Europe : European hare, Eurasian otter, European wildcat, any small mustelidae (polecat, beech or pine marten, mink)...
I could see them going got a generic asia theme and not locking themselves in India. I'm still hoping for Blackbuck though.
Beautiful. I would prefer the howler but i understand the tamarin being different from the saki so it also works. Although tbh i would remover the coyote, add the coati there and leave tropical for either the Scarlet ibis or another monkey or a tamandua.
