As you guys proppaly allready have hear of, Dlc slots 8-12 have been leaked, giving alot of credit to the assumption of atleast 5 more dlc, aka for the current format something in between 20 and 35 Habitat animals. I wanna ask you guys, how you would choose the final dlc, and what you would like to do with it?
First of for christmas, i would start with an aviary dlc, ending 8 new habitat birds into the game. My choices to reflect a bunch of different sizes, taxonomic groups, colors, biomes and atleast one for each continent would be:
Afterwards, i would like to see an europe dlc in spring as a scenery pack, featuring one of europes many different building styles and for animals the red deer (pretty much the most culturally iconic european animal, the royality of the woods), eurasian lynx (super common in zoos, small cat and a very flexible animal), red fox (same as the lynx, just as a canid, also extra value for crossing over into north america) and the wild boar (one of the most common animals in small zoos, also the largest swine and quite the menacing black death, with nothing comparable in the game). You might ask yourself "why no alpine ibex?!" but we will answer that question later. For the exhibit i would add the european viper, fire salamander or my personal favorite, the european stag beetle, which will be used for statistics at the end.
For summer, you might already have heard that one, because i have been quite vocal about it, i want an oceania animal pack, as i feel like it would be the perfect fit for the summer and to flesh out that region one and for all. It would feature two animals per island with quite the diverse biomes, as we have the tropical new guinea, the hot and dry australia and the temperate tasmania and new zealand.
For the animals i would add the greater bird of paradise and the short beaked echidna, for tasmania the bennets wallaby and the tasmanian devil, new zealand the kiwi and the tuatara as the exhibit and lastly for mainland australia the emu and one of the sulphur creested cockatoo, rainbow lorikeet, budgerie or the galah.
This would not only add some more aviary animals, but also fill out oceania to a fullfilling degree.
Originally, i wanted a 4+1 himalayan dlc for the second scenery pack, as i am a sucker for tibetian and nepalian architecture, but that kinda got crossed out, because without the snowleopard a himalayan pack would simply have no staying power, even though i would have loved to see 4 of the domestic yak, himalayan thar, palas cat, takin and himalayan monal here.
So instead, i think a petting zoo pack would do a great job, providing a general small zoo/barnyard theme, aswell as domestic animals from all around the world in for of the kuneku pig from new zealand, scottish highland cattle from europe, african dwarf goat from well africa and the domestic donkey, featuring basically everywhere and being of strong cultural improtance all around the world, be it in christian culture, european folklore, antic mythologies from rome to eghypt, mexican culture or even as the animal of the democrats in america. It would be a great headliner for such a pack, as they are found all around the world and are a joy for pretty much everybody that has interacted with them. For the exhibit i would add the corn snake, for some american representation and their link to farms and aggriculture.
Lastly, i want to propse a pack, that could be a satisfying pack, rounding out one of the games biomes or the start of way more biome pack, an alpine pack.
This would leave the opportunity for more packs in the future, as i have let out quite a few popular species that could headline their own dlc, without taking away from the roster if these would be the five final ones.
Anyways, headlining the animal we have the anden condor, being left out from the aviary pack to stand on his own as the flagship of this pack. Following him we have the domestic yak, as another domestic animal and bovine from asia, the alpine ibex, one of the most wanted alpine animals for the game, spectacle bear, coming down from the anden as my personal favorite bear and quite the unique look and taxonomic history, alpine marmot, for more rodents and the nice mix with the ibex, himalayan monal as a colorful bird to change up all these rather grey and blackish animals and lastly the barbary macacque and the berber toad for the exhibit.
This way we have 2 animals each from the Anden, Alps, Atlasmountains and Himalaya, featuring four of the most iconic mountain ranges and adding all kinds of animals, featuring a pheasant, one of the most common monkeys in zoos, the most taxonomicly distinct bear, a rodent, a domestic bovine, the most requested caprid and our maybe last flying bird, being quite the banger if i might say so.
So thats it, thats my list, but for some fun, i thought to add some statistics.
Before adding these 30 habitat and 5 exhibit animals, 116 animals are in the game, 29 exhibit animals and 87 habitat animals.
Afterwards it will be 141 animals, with 34 exhibit and 107 habitat animals.
Right now we have:
38 African, 33 Asian, 30 Northamerican, 22 Southamerican, 9 Oceanian and 8 European Animals (taken from the wiki)
5 Amphibeans, 6 Birds, 13 Invertebrate, 19 Reptiles and 73 Mammals.
After these packs we have:
45 African, 42 Asian, 37 Northamerican, 26 Southamerican, 19 Oceanian and 20 European Animals.
6 Amphibeans (which are still all frogs lol), 20 Birds (atleast 11 aviary), 14 Invertebrates, 21 Reptiles and 89 Mammals, with now 5 Marsupials and 1 Monotreme.
So thats it! Thats how i would do it and i hope that this would just be the start for a bunch on biome packs, bringing with them some favorites i needed to leave out like the Takin, racoon, capybara or small monkeys. But what do you guys think? Would you be happy with these 5 final packs? What would you change or do you have completly different idears all together?
Cant wait to hear you alls opinions on this ^^
First of for christmas, i would start with an aviary dlc, ending 8 new habitat birds into the game. My choices to reflect a bunch of different sizes, taxonomic groups, colors, biomes and atleast one for each continent would be:
- Bald eagle (large, eagle, aquatic and temperate, north america)
- Bearded vulture (large, vulture, alpine, europe africa and asia)
- Scarlet macaw (large, parrot, tropical rainforests and graslands, america)
- Kookaburra (mid, king fisher, desert and grassland, australia)
- Snowy owl (mid, owl, tundra, northamerica and eurasia)
- White-cheeked turaco (mid, turaco, grassland and alpine, africa)
- Scarlet ibis (mid, ibis/waterfowl in general, tropical and aquatic, americas)
- Bali Mynah (small, Songbird, tropical, asia)
Afterwards, i would like to see an europe dlc in spring as a scenery pack, featuring one of europes many different building styles and for animals the red deer (pretty much the most culturally iconic european animal, the royality of the woods), eurasian lynx (super common in zoos, small cat and a very flexible animal), red fox (same as the lynx, just as a canid, also extra value for crossing over into north america) and the wild boar (one of the most common animals in small zoos, also the largest swine and quite the menacing black death, with nothing comparable in the game). You might ask yourself "why no alpine ibex?!" but we will answer that question later. For the exhibit i would add the european viper, fire salamander or my personal favorite, the european stag beetle, which will be used for statistics at the end.
For summer, you might already have heard that one, because i have been quite vocal about it, i want an oceania animal pack, as i feel like it would be the perfect fit for the summer and to flesh out that region one and for all. It would feature two animals per island with quite the diverse biomes, as we have the tropical new guinea, the hot and dry australia and the temperate tasmania and new zealand.
For the animals i would add the greater bird of paradise and the short beaked echidna, for tasmania the bennets wallaby and the tasmanian devil, new zealand the kiwi and the tuatara as the exhibit and lastly for mainland australia the emu and one of the sulphur creested cockatoo, rainbow lorikeet, budgerie or the galah.
This would not only add some more aviary animals, but also fill out oceania to a fullfilling degree.
Originally, i wanted a 4+1 himalayan dlc for the second scenery pack, as i am a sucker for tibetian and nepalian architecture, but that kinda got crossed out, because without the snowleopard a himalayan pack would simply have no staying power, even though i would have loved to see 4 of the domestic yak, himalayan thar, palas cat, takin and himalayan monal here.
So instead, i think a petting zoo pack would do a great job, providing a general small zoo/barnyard theme, aswell as domestic animals from all around the world in for of the kuneku pig from new zealand, scottish highland cattle from europe, african dwarf goat from well africa and the domestic donkey, featuring basically everywhere and being of strong cultural improtance all around the world, be it in christian culture, european folklore, antic mythologies from rome to eghypt, mexican culture or even as the animal of the democrats in america. It would be a great headliner for such a pack, as they are found all around the world and are a joy for pretty much everybody that has interacted with them. For the exhibit i would add the corn snake, for some american representation and their link to farms and aggriculture.
Lastly, i want to propse a pack, that could be a satisfying pack, rounding out one of the games biomes or the start of way more biome pack, an alpine pack.
This would leave the opportunity for more packs in the future, as i have let out quite a few popular species that could headline their own dlc, without taking away from the roster if these would be the five final ones.
Anyways, headlining the animal we have the anden condor, being left out from the aviary pack to stand on his own as the flagship of this pack. Following him we have the domestic yak, as another domestic animal and bovine from asia, the alpine ibex, one of the most wanted alpine animals for the game, spectacle bear, coming down from the anden as my personal favorite bear and quite the unique look and taxonomic history, alpine marmot, for more rodents and the nice mix with the ibex, himalayan monal as a colorful bird to change up all these rather grey and blackish animals and lastly the barbary macacque and the berber toad for the exhibit.
This way we have 2 animals each from the Anden, Alps, Atlasmountains and Himalaya, featuring four of the most iconic mountain ranges and adding all kinds of animals, featuring a pheasant, one of the most common monkeys in zoos, the most taxonomicly distinct bear, a rodent, a domestic bovine, the most requested caprid and our maybe last flying bird, being quite the banger if i might say so.
So thats it, thats my list, but for some fun, i thought to add some statistics.
Before adding these 30 habitat and 5 exhibit animals, 116 animals are in the game, 29 exhibit animals and 87 habitat animals.
Afterwards it will be 141 animals, with 34 exhibit and 107 habitat animals.
Right now we have:
38 African, 33 Asian, 30 Northamerican, 22 Southamerican, 9 Oceanian and 8 European Animals (taken from the wiki)
5 Amphibeans, 6 Birds, 13 Invertebrate, 19 Reptiles and 73 Mammals.
After these packs we have:
45 African, 42 Asian, 37 Northamerican, 26 Southamerican, 19 Oceanian and 20 European Animals.
6 Amphibeans (which are still all frogs lol), 20 Birds (atleast 11 aviary), 14 Invertebrates, 21 Reptiles and 89 Mammals, with now 5 Marsupials and 1 Monotreme.
So thats it! Thats how i would do it and i hope that this would just be the start for a bunch on biome packs, bringing with them some favorites i needed to leave out like the Takin, racoon, capybara or small monkeys. But what do you guys think? Would you be happy with these 5 final packs? What would you change or do you have completly different idears all together?
Cant wait to hear you alls opinions on this ^^
That would be such a cash grab, just implement flying into this game, we already have diving....