Another list of DLC ideas ;P

Gerrit Wehrenberg

G
Just a loose list of my ideas for animal packs/large expansion packs/general packs.
What are you guys think? :)

>>> Animal packs
Africa Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. black rhinoceros
  2. gelada
  3. greater kudu
  4. grey crowned crane
  5. guereza
  6. meerkat
  7. red river hog
exhibit animal:
  1. Jackson's chameleon
India Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. blackbuck
  2. gaur
  3. Indian crested porcupine
  4. nilgai
  5. northern plains grey langur
  6. striped hyena
  7. western hoolock gibbon
exhibit animal:
  1. Indian cobra
East Asia Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. Amur leopard
  2. Chinese giant salamander
  3. golden snub-nosed monkey
  4. golden takin
  5. Manchurian crane
  6. markhor
  7. yak
exhibit animal:
  1. secret toadhead agama
Europe Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. Alpine ibex
  2. Arctic fox
  3. Eurasian beaver
  4. Eurasian elk
  5. fallow deer
  6. muskox
  7. wolverine
exhibit animal:
  1. fire salamander
North America Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. American alligator
  2. American black bear
  3. California sea lion
  4. common raccoon
  5. cougar
  6. striped skunk
  7. Virginia opossum
exhibit animal:
  1. eastern coral snake
South America Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. capybara
  2. Colombian red howler
  3. giant armadillo
  4. greater rhea
  5. Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
  6. South American coati
  7. spectacled bear
exhibit animal:
  1. plumed basilisk
features:
  • hand over hand climbing
Island Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. aye-aye
  2. Buergers' tree-kangaroo
  3. crowned sifaka
  4. fossa
  5. North Island brown kiwi
  6. Tasmanian devil
  7. Tasmanian wombat
exhibit animal:
  1. New Caledonian giant gecko
Conservation Animal Pack
habitat animals:
  1. Arabian oryx
  2. European bison
  3. Iberian lynx
  4. Père David's deer
  5. Przewalski's horse
  6. scimitar oryx
  7. white rhinoceros
exhibit animal:
  1. Panamanian golden frog
scenario:
  • conservation breeding center
>>> large expansion packs
Avairy Pack
habitat animals:
  1. Andean condor
  2. Australian pelican
  3. bald eagle
  4. bearded vulture
  5. blue-and-yellow macaw
  6. citron-crested cockatoo
  7. common raven
  8. Eurasian eagle-owl
  9. golden pheasant
  10. great green macaw
  11. great hornbill
  12. greater bird-of-paradise
  13. harpy eagle
  14. helmeted guineafowl
  15. hyacinth macaw
  16. kalong
  17. keel-billed toucan
  18. laughing kookaburra
  19. mandarin duck
  20. marabou stork
  21. mute swan
  22. roseate spoonbill
  23. Rüppell's vulture
  24. satyr tragopan
  25. scarlet ibis
  26. scarlet macaw
  27. secretary bird
  28. shoebill
  29. snowy owl
  30. Victoria crowned pigeon
items/features:
  • avairies
  • free flight
  • free butterflies
Marine Pack
habitat animals:
  1. African penguin
  2. beluga whale
  3. blacktip reef shark
  4. brown pelican
  5. Caribbean manatee
  6. common bottlenose dolphin
  7. giant oceanic manta ray
  8. giant Pacific octopus
  9. great barracuda
  10. green sea turtle
  11. humphead wrasse
  12. lombcomb sawfish
  13. northern fur seal
  14. northern rockhopper penguin
  15. ocean sunfish
  16. Pacific walrus
  17. scalloped hammerhead
  18. sea otter
  19. southern elephant seal
  20. whale shark
exhibit animal:
  1. American lobster
  2. blue tang
  3. chambered nautilus
  4. fried egg jellyfish
  5. leafy seadragon
  6. leopard moray eel
  7. long-spine porcupinefish
  8. ocellaris clownfish
  9. spotted seahorse
  10. yellow-lipped sea krait
items/features:
  • submarine tour
  • nautical theme
  • underwater tunnels
  • water salinity control
>>> further general packs
Egyptian Pack
habitat animals:
  1. fennec fox
  2. dromedary
  3. addax
  4. mhorr gazelle
exhibit animal:
  1. sacred scarab
items:
  • ancient egyptian theme
  • sandstone rocks
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
Well done! I'll take all of those - but I should just point out a correction, or maybe clarification, while there are Wombats in Tasmania there is not a specific "Tasmanian Wombat", I think that's just the common wombat if I'm not mistaken. Dont' leave it out though, but all means, I would love for the wombats to make the game.
 

Gerrit Wehrenberg

G
jcp011c said:
Well done! I'll take all of those - but I should just point out a correction, or maybe clarification, while there are Wombats in Tasmania there is not a specific "Tasmanian Wombat", I think that's just the common wombat if I'm not mistaken. Dont' leave it out though, but all means, I would love for the wombats to make the game.
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The Tasmanian wombat (Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis) is a subspecies of the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) ;) But yeah there are missing!
 

Chuditch

Chuditch
Pretty good list! Only thing I would change is that if Asia gets 2 more animal packs and South America gets a second visit, I think it'd only be fair for Australia to get a full animal pack too (with additional Oceanian animals like kiwis and tree kangaroos being withheld for the Islands DLC). Otherwise there's a lot of key species still missing, although you did cover my three greatest wants (devil, wombat and tree kangaroo) so I wouldn't be too upset as long as they made it in.
 

Orque41

Orque41
It's a very nice list but would add :
Africa Animal Pack
Cobe of lechwe
Kirk's dik-dik
Porcupine
Fennec
Otocyon
Caracal
Donkey African wild
Striped mongoose
show animal:
Black mamba

Animals
East Asian animal pack habitat
Saro from Japan
Raccoon cat
Raccoon dog
exhibit animal:
Sea cobra

Europe Animal Pack
Animal habitat:
Red fox
Boar
Chamois
Elaphe deer
exhibit animal:
Leopard snake

Animals
North American animal pack habitat
Priairie Chein
Coyote

Animals
South American animal pack habitat:
Maned wolf
animal
Bush dog
Humbold penguin
Mara
Ocelot
exposure:
Spearhead

>> large expansion packs
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Avairy Pack
habitat animals:
Toucan toco
Monk vulture
Royal Eagle
Caracara
Peregrine Falcon
Black Swan
Hyacinth macaw
Ground hornbill
Mallard duck
Black-necked swan
Emu
elements / characteristics:
Free hummingbird

>> other general packs animals of the habitat of the pack
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egyptian
Desert cat

Animals
Island animal pack habitat:
Bennet's Wallaby

I do not want American black bear

And that's all I want.
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Yeah I don't see either of the "large expansions" happening. I think we will get birds eventually, but I have a suspicion that these new animal packs we're getting are leading up to it in some way ("Flying Animals Pack" or something to that effect), and we'll get at most eight habitat birds (and no exhibit species, unless they want to do smaller aviaries for smaller birds or something).

Most marine animals are not going to make it in.

Otherwise I like a lot of your ideas. Some of them seem kind of arbitrary in terms of categorisation but otherwise some good thought has gone into them. (y)
 

Gerrit Wehrenberg

G
NZFanatic said:
Yeah I don't see either of the "large expansions" happening. I think we will get birds eventually, but I have a suspicion that these new animal packs we're getting are leading up to it in some way ("Flying Animals Pack" or something to that effect), and we'll get at most eight habitat birds (and no exhibit species, unless they want to do smaller aviaries for smaller birds or something).

Most marine animals are not going to make it in.

Otherwise I like a lot of your ideas. Some of them seem kind of arbitrary in terms of categorisation but otherwise some good thought has gone into them. (y)
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Well, I also don't think that such a big list of DLCs will happen - not even in a similar way. It is more of a wishlist, a missed-potential-of-the-game list or utopia list.

The categories are not that random if you think about it. The subcategories within Asia are already implemented not only in the item themes but in the basal game's animal choises. Those animal packs would just enlarge the animal list from those already existing concepts.
On the other hand I tried to include 'key species' for a zoo. For example, I expected a gibbon species in the latest Southeast Asia Animal Pack. It was not included - therefore I included this in general highly required taxon in the fictional India Animal Pack. I also could put a moose or beaver into the North American Animal Pack or the lynx into the Europe Animal Pack - but I did made a list of key species and distributed them into several packs to not only result in a divers selection of packs but to make every pack interesting enough for itself. Lately, Frontier wrote about such a process as well. For them such a process is important to sell a lot of DLCs. If the animal selection isn't that interesting for a lot of players - this could fire back.
Such a Animal Pack around 'Conservation' is not only logical for a modern zoo game with kind of an educational approach but also no new invention since the 'Endangered Animal Expansion Pack' of Zoo Tycoon 2. My species selection for this latter pack contains animals where zoos where essential for the species survival or where the species is still extinct in the wild (and only survives in zoos currently).
The sketch of an Egyptian Pack was due to the missing dormedary and the fact that the theme itself would be a cool inclusion for Planet Zoo. It would be possible to include an ancient Egytian them into an African Pack as well... But a seperation would of cause enlarge the animal list in general (and a potential financal gain for the company).

Let's see what the Frontier team plans for the game's future... Because I think such topics, wishlists and DLC ideas show the unused potenial of the game that was (I think) even expected before release. Especially for marine animals (such as in ZT2: Marine Mania) or as a step forward an avairy pack (because we never got this in ZT2).
 

Swjosdotschka

Swjosdotschka
Love a lot of these ideas, even the bird pack. I just really need my asian small clawed otter and a skunk, a european badger would be nice as well. Otherwise... yeah, I'd be happy with that road.
 

Gerrit Wehrenberg

G
Swjosdotschka said:
Love a lot of these ideas, even the bird pack. I just really need my asian small clawed otter and a skunk, a european badger would be nice as well. Otherwise... yeah, I'd be happy with that road.
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Sounds that we also need a Small Mammal Pack XD XD XD
But with my version of DLCs you at least get a striped skunk ;P
 

Bearcat9948

Bearcat9948
Fossa said:
Let's all just hope Frontier doesn't want to compete with Prehistoric Kingdom by releasing/working on a new Jurassic World Evolution BORE game, I hope they support this game till the very end, until a new zoo game (non dinosaurs) is released.
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Well, I'm pretty sure this will have been in development for a while now. There was some debate on whether or no they would release a game when Dominion comes out, which ofc would've been last year if not for COVID. Since Universal is their boss when it comes to the games, if Universal has mandated they release a prequel game to coincide with Domino's release, like how JWE and Fallen Kingdom were basically released side-by-side, then Frontier really has no say in the matter.
 
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