Hello all. I'd like to pose a bit of a question. I've been looking over the number of digsites in the game. The total from the map we've seen comes out to 32. That's a lot of digsites. Now, barring a lot of overlap between a lot of digsite in North America primarily and North Africa to a lesser extent, do you guys think either of the following things or both of them could be true of the game?
1. There are quite a few more dinosaur genera in the game besides the allegedly confirmed 42 with the 5 from the deluxe pre-order edition included. I base this possibility on the sheer number of notable or unique dinosaur genera from each site. I feel it would be rather pointless to include a lot of digsites on each continent and have a ridiculous amount of genera overlap between them. I'm going to speculate Frontier may actually have around 50 genera planned for launch.
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2. A lot of the digsites on the map have the potential to be expanded upon with more unique genera at a later date. To me, this seems likely due to the presence of such digsites as the Maevarano in Madagascar, the Bissekty in Uzbekistan, and the Mackunda in Australia. The Maevarano, besides having the already confirmed deluxe order Majungasaurus, also has yielded the smaller noasaurid carnivore Masiakasaurus and the small to medium-size titanosaurid sauropod tosaurus. The Mackunda could easily have Muttaburrasaurus, Australovenator, and perhaps a couple other species. The Bissekty, while not known for a lot of famous or notable dinosaurs, does have genera such as Bissektipelta (an ankylosaur), Turanoceratops (a small ceratopsian that looked like a small Triceratops), Levnesovia (a hadrosauroid), Caenagnathasia (an oviraptorid), Euronychodon and Urbacodon (two troodontids), Itemirus (a dromaeosaur similar to Velociraptor), and Timurlengia (a small tyrannosauroid). While many such names from the Bissekty would not likely show up, it seems a waste to put such a digsite in and not eventually do anything with it.
Let me know what you all think. I'd say given the number of species we known about vs. the number of species we don't know of, I'd say Frontier would want to have at least a third to half the total dinosaurs in the game at initial release be a surprise, hence why I think 42 including deluxe maybe be something to throw us off the real number (especially considering that number came from a screenshot taken from an unfinished development build). Like I said, let me know your thoughts and give some basic reasoning why you think one or both the options above are either true or false.
1. There are quite a few more dinosaur genera in the game besides the allegedly confirmed 42 with the 5 from the deluxe pre-order edition included. I base this possibility on the sheer number of notable or unique dinosaur genera from each site. I feel it would be rather pointless to include a lot of digsites on each continent and have a ridiculous amount of genera overlap between them. I'm going to speculate Frontier may actually have around 50 genera planned for launch.
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2. A lot of the digsites on the map have the potential to be expanded upon with more unique genera at a later date. To me, this seems likely due to the presence of such digsites as the Maevarano in Madagascar, the Bissekty in Uzbekistan, and the Mackunda in Australia. The Maevarano, besides having the already confirmed deluxe order Majungasaurus, also has yielded the smaller noasaurid carnivore Masiakasaurus and the small to medium-size titanosaurid sauropod tosaurus. The Mackunda could easily have Muttaburrasaurus, Australovenator, and perhaps a couple other species. The Bissekty, while not known for a lot of famous or notable dinosaurs, does have genera such as Bissektipelta (an ankylosaur), Turanoceratops (a small ceratopsian that looked like a small Triceratops), Levnesovia (a hadrosauroid), Caenagnathasia (an oviraptorid), Euronychodon and Urbacodon (two troodontids), Itemirus (a dromaeosaur similar to Velociraptor), and Timurlengia (a small tyrannosauroid). While many such names from the Bissekty would not likely show up, it seems a waste to put such a digsite in and not eventually do anything with it.
Let me know what you all think. I'd say given the number of species we known about vs. the number of species we don't know of, I'd say Frontier would want to have at least a third to half the total dinosaurs in the game at initial release be a surprise, hence why I think 42 including deluxe maybe be something to throw us off the real number (especially considering that number came from a screenshot taken from an unfinished development build). Like I said, let me know your thoughts and give some basic reasoning why you think one or both the options above are either true or false.
