Australian DLC Pack

Charlie250

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Maybe after you did plan, made, and released one of those new marine dlc packs or two, maybe you then begin to plan on making and releasing an new Australian DLC Pack as well in the near future.
Australian DLC Pack: Australian themed building sets and scenery, new animal food like eucalyptus leaves, new animal enrichment and shelter, and 11 new animals. 7 main animals: Red kangaroo, Koala, Emu, Common wombat, Perentie, Blacktip reef shark, Dugong. 4 exhibit animals: Platypus, Queensland lungfish, Green moray eel, and Frilled lizard
 
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Adarra

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Don't make the platypus into an exhibit animal! It deserves its own habitat and all that comes with it.

Yes, I love platypi. Or platypusses. However you write it. Always have, always will. ^^
 

Crea_TivELA

Crea_TivELA
Charlie250 said:
Maybe after you did plan, made, and released one of those new marine dlc packs or two, maybe you then begin to plan on making and releasing an new Australian DLC Pack as well in the near future.
Australian DLC Pack: Australian themed building sets and scenery, new animal food like eucalyptus leaves, new animal enrichment and shelter, and 11 new animals. 7 main animals: Red kangaroo, Koala, Emu, Common wombat, Perentie, Blacktip reef shark, Dugong. 4 exhibit animals: Platypus, Queensland lungfish, Green moray eel, and Frilled lizard
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Quokka ^^ ❤
 
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Mkau

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NL_Mutso said:
I think i saw a video a few weeks ago about the only platypuses outside Australia. It looked like a large exhibit, somewhere near the size as some Otter exhibits..
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It was probably the San Diego Zoo Safari Park,they displayed their platypus for the first time in the outdoor enclosure around one month ago.
 

eulemur

eulemur
Mjmannella said:
Ring-tails have a total length of 95-100cm, not sure where they’re getting the 30-40 from.
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Probably by not including the tail, which is a little more than half of their body length. Still an underestimate but not far wrong.

EDIT; more not less lmao
 

Adarra

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In their natural environment platypi are very active and have quite a large territory. Size of an animal is no indication for how large a habitat they need. Take dwarf hamsters for instance; they're tiny compared to platypi, but in the wild they can roam a territory of hundreds of square meters. If you'd judge them by their size you could keep them in those horrible, plastic 'hamster cages' they sell at stores, but in reality they need far bigger homes to be happy and need to be able to leave the cage at least once a day to 'stretch their legs'. Look at the iguanas in the game: I'm pretty sure they're animals that'd need a bigger exhibit judging by their size when compared to the exhibit and I'm quite sure that in the wild, while not always very active, they need a far bigger area to roam than those small exhibits in the game. Tbh I'd love to see Frontier at XXL exhibits for those larger species, because reptiles need more space. And a platypus in an exhibit? That'd make even less sense. It'd be like saying 'let's put koalas in an exhibit'. ;-)
 

Adarra

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But koalas could then also be argued to be 'too small'. Btw, every animal, be they great or small, can be seen on the heat map if you zoom in enough. ;-)
 

Mjmannella

Mjmannella
Adarra said:
But koalas could then also be argued to be 'too small'. Btw, every animal, be they great or small, can be seen on the heat map if you zoom in enough. ;-)
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Koalas are much bigger than platypuses though. 85cm on koalas to 50cm on platypuses. They only thing holding them back is their worthilness as a species (can of worms I’m not opening in this thread).
I mean by glances at the default zoom when I say readily seen. No adult animal shorter than 80cm should be a habitat animal imo.
 

NZFanatic

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Koalas are bigger than ring-tailed lemurs.

I agree, the platypus is too small to be a habitat animal. If they include a monotreme, I'd advocate for the short-beaked echidna instead.

Looking at the way they did the Arctic DLC, though, I suspect we'd see the perentie or lace monitor, the freshwater crocodile, and the dingo. Why? They're easy, and their inclusion would mean that the pack can be released much more quickly. They wouldn't get away with not including a kangaroo (I would prefer the eastern grey as a walkthrough exhibit animal, but I don't doubt it will be the red), and I'd seriously hope they would finally put an emu into a zoo game.

In terms of habitat animals, my list based on expectations as much as wants would be thus;
- Red kangaroo.
- Dingo.
- Freshwater crocodile.
- Emu.
- Short-beaked echidna.

I would love to see them somehow include the koala, but I think they might put that in the "too hard" pile. Another animal I think would suit the game perfectly is the Tasmanian devil - they're under threat from a type of facial cancer and breeding efforts have been ramped up significantly all over Oceania, so I would hope Frontier would consider the devil for Planet Zoo given the angle of "education/conservation".

Australia/Oceania would also be a good way to add more education boards; invasive species, disease, and forest fires are three big issues the native fauna of Australia and New Zealand has to face.

In terms of exhibit animals, where do you even start?

- Taipan.
- Frill-necked lizard.
- Thorny devil.
- Bearded dragon.
- Blue-tongued skink.
- Shingleback lizard.
- Social huntsman spider.
- Goliath stick insect.
- Golden bell frog.

And that's just Australia. If we included New Zealand, there are dozens more possible additions, including of course the Tuatara.

That said, I would really like to see some kind of aviary system implemented before they tackle Australia/Oceania, since a lot of the more iconic species from this region are birds. Whether they go down the likeliest route and make the PZ aviaries similar to the one in JWE, or do something else entirely, I don't think you can do Oceania justice without including a few key parrots (and others, such as the kereru/NZ wood pigeon, or the laughing kookaburra).
 

Mjmannella

Mjmannella
NZFanatic said:
Koalas are bigger than ring-tailed lemurs.

I agree, the platypus is too small to be a habitat animal. If they include a monotreme, I'd advocate for the short-beaked echidna instead.
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Short-beaked echidnas are as small as platypuses. If there's gonna be a monotreme, I'd rather it be a long-beaked echidna.
And again, ring-tails have a total length of 95-110cm. About twice as long as a platypus or short-beaked echidna.
 
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