An Animal pack only year

[YesIndeed]

So, here me out, assuming 2023 will be the last year of support (if not I don't care what they do). There's a lot of animals me and many other players still desperately want and I think it would be more beneficial having all animal packs next year.

Though others may not agree I personally think by owning all the dlcs we have enough building prices that represent lots of different things. But if you do disagree, tell me what other pieces do you actual want? A few specific plants or a few new faux items could easily be apart of free updates that come along side the packs. Think about how many free palnts we got with all the packs last year.

I love building myself but would rather have more new animals to build stuff for. Going along with this my personal hopes would be Rainforest, drylands, coastal and highlands animal packs for next year. Final thing I wanted mention is that if we keep to schedule we will 16 packs by the end of the year. A lot of builders would argue my ideas not fair but if we keep to normal regime we'll have 10 scenery and 6 animal packs while if we do my idea we'll have 8 of each.

Tell me your thoughts on this idea though?

 

[Spiderhawk]

I honestly thought after Conservation that that would be the end of build packs, o and behold the twilight pack came out. I would take a build dlc that can give an island theme but other than that I don’t want any more builds.
4 animal packs could seriously cover a lot of biomes with the remaining highly requested animals. I have about 15 animals i really want then I’d say I’m content.
28 habitat, 4 sets of 5 WE, maybe 4 ex

 

[jcp011c]

I just made a comment on another thread about feeling like we would still need some building sets, but I'm not 100% opposed to all animal packs either. I have come to love building more and more as the years go on, but the animals of the game are where my heart lies the most. So if I had to choose for just my own wants, I'd go with all animal packs.

Rainforests for Tropical for sure, and some kind of mix of Tundra/Tagia/Temperate to represent climates with colder potential, and something for deserts for warmer climates, but putting in a couple of grassland animals as well so it's not exclusively desert. And Aviaries.....honestly, it would be amazing for me personally if we got an entire aviary Walkthrough/Non-Walkthrough Exhibit pack...with 8 different "sets" of at least 3 birds per each set. And then continue to have an additional aviary set for the remaining pack. There's a lot of types of birds, and for me that would be a way to get some of the larger, more zoo-notable groups covered while at the same time give us the variety of those groups and variety within those groups as well.

 

[Karen F]

I wouldn't feel bad if we only got animal packs from now on, but I am still hoping for some scenery packs, even if it is just 2 (really useful ones).

 

[Antimony96]

As has been suggested I think Frontier should bring back ACSE from PlanCo, which opens up basically any scenery you want. Otherwise it's hard to come up with future scenery possibilities--Conservation brought us some modern pieces plus backstage tools, while Twilight had some seasonal/theme park-y pieces but was predominantly the central/eastern European counterpart to the (mostly western European) Europe pack.

As for future scenery packs, I still see something like a children's zoo pack as having a lot of potential--a mix of farm/barnyard building pieces, more child-oriented educational pieces like those gorilla and giraffe things we got a couple packs ago, and potentially even rides (a carousel) and playground pieces.

 

[Nioell]

Gotta be honest, I'd hate if we only got animal packs anymore. There's still a lot that's missing especially for indoor areas and houses so we don't have to piece everything together out of 100s of tiny pieces anymore. Same for more variations in deco fences, statues, fountains and the like, not to mention that I still hold out some hope for at least an aviary (that's not just the walkthourgh exhbit) and aquarium pack (if not a full on marine one) which would also need their own building sets to go with them. A real nocturnal house set is probably, sadly, out after the twilight pack but would've still been a nice addition and you never know.

So I'd personally much appreciate if things continue like they have so far, with a mix of both so all players get something out of it and well, maybe even a big expansion or two instead of regular scenery/animal packs so it can have both. That would probably be best all around but unlikely I know.

And something like playgrounds or maybe gift shop sets is something I'd see more in a free update than dlc tbh, since it falls more into the new feature/small extra kinda thing they got going there.

 

[TheYeti]

I think there’s still a lot of items we could use. This includes some themes (Islands/Polynesian/Caribbean, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern) but especially more generic zoo items such as building sets with wood textures, modern tile textures, weathered wood, etc. I’m not sure in what DLC they could come, but I can imagine a Reptile House DLC or Nocturnal DLC may work for that.