Costumable "Informationexhibits" for extinct animals

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Hi, I have seen some requests to bring extinct animals and I am really not a fan of that. At least not in an alive form. However it could be cool to include informationexhibits about those animals containing sculpturs etc like a mini museum. I imagined a zoo split into different sections for different 'super' species, like a cats section. And beginning this section with something about a sabre-tooth would be fitting.

I didn't post this as a wish because this certainly doesn't need to be in the base game in my eyes and I am interested what the people who would like extinct animals think about this approach.

Anyways, thank you for reading and I am HYPED for the game!
 
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Voids Light

Voids Light
I respectfully disagree. There should be a dlc that allows people to have extinct animals if they want them. This doesn't mean you'd have to buy that DLC, and others get what they kind of want. The statues would just be decorations, and not really that good of a compromise in my opinion, as its just showing off dead animals. I'd rather have a saber tooth cat that I revived in my park, than a skeleton of a saber tooth cat.
 

CakeThief

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I don't ask for extinct animals in the base game nor the first or second DLC. I agree that some Expansions might be more interesting for the majority of players and therefore prior to extinct animals. But still I would love to have them at some point. Of cause as a DLC, so people who dislike them can simply choose to not buy the DLC.
The Argument: "If you want extinct animals, just play JWE!" doesn't work for me. I'm a huge fan of prehistoric mammals and they are not included in JWE and never will be because they weren't in the movies. So I don't ask for dinosaurs. Rather I would love to see some mammoth etc. at some point. (Or Dodos...they're also not included in JWE, but we already have a statue of them in the base game, so who knows?)

And to answer the question: I also disagree, statues alone would never satisfy my whish for caring for extinct anmals. I want them as alive as the other animals.
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
I agree, that the statues, bones etc. would be great as many zoos have them as tribute to those extinct animals. Bringing them back however is another matter. I would not like them to make such dlc. There are of course some unrealistic things in game but they are minor, but having exticnt animals is way too much. And before anyone starts to reply that were close to bring some animals from extinction. Maybe, but we are not quite there and even if it would be possible, I do not think we could bring back species such as mammoths or dodos...that is simply not gonna happen for a long time if ever.

I think it could suit a whole new park theme game better.
 

NickEast

NickEast
The argument "go play JWE" doesn't work in this case, I agree. But there's also the argument that this game isn't designed to have extinct animals. So "should" is a strong word. In fact, the devs have stated many times throughout streams and videos that it's a game about modern zoos. About conservation and education. That automatically gives an indication of the kind of experience you would expect, and that doesn't include extinct animals magically returning to life.

The game can have various elements to showcase the extinct animals as an educative thing, more than just statues, as many modern zoos have. But living extinct animals, no, that would detract from the intended focus of the game.
 

nightcat

nightcat
NickEast said:
In fact, the devs have stated many times throughout streams and videos that it's a game about modern zoos. About conservation and education. That automatically gives an indication of the kind of experience you would expect, and that doesn't include extinct animals magically returning to life.
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Don't get me wrong, like many others, I don't wish for the first or even fifth expansion to be about extinct animals - but I don't see them as an impossible addition.

Preventing animals from extinction is the core part of conservation - that also includes breeding and reintroducing animals that are extinct in the wild.
And I want to add, for some people, even that is already controversal - but a lot of modern zoos take part in such programs, like saving and reintroducing the Barbary lion.

(Recently) Extinct animals don't come back "magically", but due to cloning and rebreeding. Both techniques are already in use, althought in case of cloning still without great success.
Sure, it is controversal, especially when it goes back to mammoths, but it's the technology that might safe some endangered species today, otherwise doomed to extinction.
It's not wrong to stay sceptical and I know a lot of people just say "let them die" but declaring extinct animals don't have a place in a modern zoo... well, I highly doubt it. ;)

And last but not least, don't forget that in a few years some of the Planet Zoo animals might really get extinct. I doubt they will delete them from the game...
 

LN

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nightcat said:
Don't get me wrong, like many others, I don't wish for the first or even fifth expansion to be about extinct animals - but I don't see them as an impossible addition.

Preventing animals from extinction is the core part of conservation - that also includes breeding and reintroducing animals that are extinct in the wild.
And I want to add, for some people, even that is already controversal - but a lot of modern zoos take part in such programs, like saving and reintroducing the Barbary lion.

(Recently) Extinct animals don't come back "magically", but due to cloning and rebreeding. Both techniques are already in use, althought in case of cloning still without great success.
Sure, it is controversal, especially when it goes back to mammoths, but it's the technology that might safe some endangered species today, otherwise doomed to extinction.
It's not wrong to stay sceptical and I know a lot of people just say "let them die" but declaring extinct animals don't have a place in a modern zoo... well, I highly doubt it. ;)

And last but not least, don't forget that in a few years some of the Planet Zoo animals might really get extinct. I doubt they will delete them from the game...
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We should avoid them being deleted from the world. (y)
 

NickEast

NickEast
nightcat said:
Don't get me wrong, like many others, I don't wish for the first or even fifth expansion to be about extinct animals - but I don't see them as an impossible addition.

Preventing animals from extinction is the core part of conservation - that also includes breeding and reintroducing animals that are extinct in the wild.
And I want to add, for some people, even that is already controversal - but a lot of modern zoos take part in such programs, like saving and reintroducing the Barbary lion.

(Recently) Extinct animals don't come back "magically", but due to cloning and rebreeding. Both techniques are already in use, althought in case of cloning still without great success.
Sure, it is controversal, especially when it goes back to mammoths, but it's the technology that might safe some endangered species today, otherwise doomed to extinction.
It's not wrong to stay sceptical and I know a lot of people just say "let them die" but declaring extinct animals don't have a place in a modern zoo... well, I highly doubt it. ;)

And last but not least, don't forget that in a few years some of the Planet Zoo animals might really get extinct. I doubt they will delete them from the game...
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I'm more specifically referring to dodos, mammoths, dinosaurs, etc. Those are ancient animals that have been extinct for so long, and which likely wouldn't survive in the real world anyway if they were re-introduced. When it comes to preventing an animal's extinction through breeding and reintroducing them into the wild, that's already a part of the management in the game.

The game is primarily focused on preserving animals as they exist right now, and I do think that should include animals that have recently become extinct. However, that certain animal species can become extinct in the near future and that they shouldn't be deleted from the game is far from the same thing. There's a difference between animals that have been extinct for centuries or millennia, and animals that we made extinct.
 

TeaBear

TeaBear
With so many species so close to extinction right now, already extinct animals would fit much better far down the DLC line. But a kind of museum DLC sounds great. Or maybe there are already enough assets to create one? Maybe not one that only displays (extinct) animals, but there should be enough stuff to put on display. By the way, i can't wait for PlanMu.
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
nightcat said:
And last but not least, don't forget that in a few years some of the Planet Zoo animals might really get extinct. I doubt they will delete them from the game...
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That does not make sense. If the game is taking place in current time, lets say year 2019 and you will play it in 2022 and if some of the species in game will be extinct in that year, you will still know that the year in which is the game set is 2019, so the animal was still alive so of course we wont have to delete the animal from game because it is set in 2019. But everyone will know that in 2019 we did not have tehnology to bring dodos or mammoths back, so it would simply not be realistic...not the same thing!
 

Voids Light

Voids Light
NickEast said:
I'm more specifically referring to dodos, mammoths, dinosaurs, etc. Those are ancient animals that have been extinct for so long, and which likely wouldn't survive in the real world anyway if they were re-introduced. When it comes to preventing an animal's extinction through breeding and reintroducing them into the wild, that's already a part of the management in the game.

The game is primarily focused on preserving animals as they exist right now, and I do think that should include animals that have recently become extinct. However, that certain animal species can become extinct in the near future and that they shouldn't be deleted from the game is far from the same thing. There's a difference between animals that have been extinct for centuries or millennia, and animals that we made extinct.
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However, scientists actually have genetically viable DNA samples of the dodo and of the mammoth, due to being in well preserved environments, and in fact, scientists are still trying to revive the woolly mammoth, using the mummified body of a baby woolly mammoth.
 

Nicholas LionRider

Nicholas LionRider
An extinct animal dlc future probably isn't likely. Only big expansion I'd see is a Marine expansion, though I could equally see it just becoming "Planet Aquarium" as a separate game. I like the idea of extinct animals being added but it wouldn't help Frontier themselves making competition for Jurassic World Evolutions or its rumored sequel. I frankly wouldn't mind separate games for Marine/Extinct/other expansions as long as I could link them to Planet Zoo. That's a big criticism many had with Planet Zoo being separate from Planet Coaster was the fact it will never have a RTC3 style wild expansion. I'm all for a Planet Aquarium $40 new title just allow owners of both games to still use all features interchangeably.
 
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