DLC that adds the one missing animal from each DLC

Sahara

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It would be cool if at some point Frontier makes a DLC that doesn't have a specific theme to it, but rather adds one animal from each DLC that was missing. So it would sort of be like:

Musk Ox (Arctic Pack)
Capybara (SA Pack)
Tasmanian Devil (Australia Pack)
California Sea Lion (Aquatic Pack)
Lar Gibbon (SEA Pack)
African Leopard (Africa Pack)

And, if anything big gets left out of the next two packs, which a lot of people believe are going to be North America and then Aviary themed, add those as well. I think it would be a great way to add all of the most requested animals.
 

Aramar

Aramar
Just for fun, although my list is very similar:

Musk Ox (Arctic Pack)
Capybara (SA Pack)
Tasmanian devil (Australia Pack)
Eurasian beaver (Aquatic Pack)
Lar gibbon (SEA Pack)
Dromedary (Africa Pack)
??? (unknown 7th DLC)
King cobra or chameleon as the exhibit

Maybe if we don't get birds for Christmas, this could be a good replcement option.
 

Sahara

S
NZFanatic said:
I wouldn't say the African leopard was missing from the Africa Pack. IMO the most glaring ommission was a new kind of antelope, such as the addax.
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While Addax and oryx would be great additions, leopards were by far the most requested animal from Africa followed by the 4 we got. Leopards, porcupines, baboons and secretary birds were all big requests, but I think the leopard would be the best choice. It would complete the big 5, and it's pretty much the last generic zoo animal that hasn't been added yet.
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Sahara said:
While Addax and oryx would be great additions, leopards were by far the most requested animal from Africa followed by the 4 we got. Leopards, porcupines, baboons and secretary birds were all big requests, but I think the leopard would be the best choice. It would complete the big 5, and it's pretty much the last generic zoo animal that hasn't been added yet.
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The African leopard is not a generic zoo animal. It is also not the most highly-requested leopard (that goes to the Amur). The Big Five also has nothing to do with zoos.
 

Sahara

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NZFanatic said:
The African leopard is not a generic zoo animal. It is also not the most highly-requested leopard (that goes to the Amur). The Big Five also has nothing to do with zoos.
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Perhaps not in North America and Europe, but many of the zoos I've been to in the middle east and north africa have had african or indian leopards. While the Amur leopard may be more requested, I've seen a lot of people ask for it on their wishlists. And yes, I am aware that the Big Five doesn't have to do with zoos, it's just that the Big Five are an iconic group of African animals, and 4 out of 5 of them are in the game, so it would be cool to have the fifth.
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Sahara said:
Perhaps not in North America and Europe, but many of the zoos I've been to in the middle east and north africa have had african or indian leopards. While the Amur leopard may be more requested, I've seen a lot of people ask for it on their wishlists. And yes, I am aware that the Big Five doesn't have to do with zoos, it's just that the Big Five are an iconic group of African animals, and 4 out of 5 of them are in the game, so it would be cool to have the fifth.
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Suggesting the leopard in general is a generic zoo animal is different from suggesting that specifically the African leopard is. A quick Google tells me that very few zoos have African leopards, at least ones that are part of the AZA, which is the international governing body of accredited zoos (and it's also where Frontier takes their cues for the game).

I'm against any notion of the Big Five in the game. The concept started because of big game hunting, and while it has evolved into a role for wildlife photographers and ecotourism, it still has that dark past. It's also a completely arbitrary grouping with very little actual meaning or significance. Anyway, to each their own, but including the African leopard over a more widespread captive subspecies would rankle a lot of people.
 

Swjosdotschka

Swjosdotschka
Hmm, okay, let me try:

  • Arctic Fox
  • Capybara
  • Wombat (I'd go with Emu though, if we didn't have the cassowary)
  • California sea lion (and switch that dang giant otter with the asian small clawed, please!)
  • Lar Gibbon
  • Hymadras Baboon (nope, noafrican leopard for me, becazse of reasons stated. )
 

Swjosdotschka

Swjosdotschka
NZFanatic said:
I'd go with...

  • Wolverine.
  • Capybara.
  • Tasmanian devil.
  • California sea lion.
  • Asian small-clawed otter.
  • Hamadryas baboon (good call, Swjos, I somehow forgot about the baboon).
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Now I feel dumb because I just could have put the asian small clawed otter in the SEA pack... LOL. It didn't even crossed my mind, though I remember people complaining that it's still missing. Makes me afraid we will never get it. (Dear Devs, please take a look at the meta wishlist, thank you very much)
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Swjosdotschka said:
Now I feel dumb because I just could have put the asian small clawed otter in the SEA pack... LOL. It didn't even crossed my mind, though I remember people complaining that it's still missing. Makes me afraid we will never get it. (Dear Devs, please take a look at the meta wishlist, thank you very much)
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At this point a second Aquatic Pack almost feels necessary. Asian small-clawed otter, capybara, California sea lion, maybe the American beaver as well if it doesn't show up in another DLC, and the axolotl as the exhibit animal.
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Jeminyne said:
oooh I've really been wanting the giant eland. That would've been cool.
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Yeah we really are missing a lot of important hoofstock, but I sometimes feel like I'm the only one who wants them. The eland is great, the addax is a massive conservation project for the AZA, the scimitar-horned oryx is a conservation icon, the blackbuck would be marvellous mixed in with the Indian rhinoceros, the gerenuk is just so wonderfully weird, then there's the various duiker which all look awesome, and the klipspringer which is a super interesting antelope.

For whatever reason people think antelope are 'boring', and so I assume Frontier is staying away from them.
 

KönigDerKaffeebohnen

K
NZFanatic said:
Yeah we really are missing a lot of important hoofstock, but I sometimes feel like I'm the only one who wants them. The eland is great, the addax is a massive conservation project for the AZA, the scimitar-horned oryx is a conservation icon, the blackbuck would be marvellous mixed in with the Indian rhinoceros, the gerenuk is just so wonderfully weird, then there's the various duiker which all look awesome, and the klipspringer which is a super interesting antelope.

For whatever reason people think antelope are 'boring', and so I assume Frontier is staying away from them.
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I agree with you on many levels and would love more antelopes in the game BUT There are allready 9 of them.
Id rather get more deer, goats, swine and equine before we include more of them, even though i would be happy about thouse we would get
 

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
Ok, lemme see:

Arctic: Arctic fox - I mean, they are awesome
South America: Maned wolf - a great canid for SA, rounding out our canines for most, if not all, the continents
Australia: Wombat (any species) - a nice little marsupial that would be a fun addition
Aquatic: Capybara - I cheated, ok? But it's still a good way to include 2 requested SA species
Southeast Asia: Victoria crowned pigeon - although they can fly, they tend to be walkers, not flyers. And now that we have mesh we can take am aviary
Africa: Dromedary camel - with all the scenery, why not?
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Just to be clear, are we talking about species we just randomly wanted in these packs or ones that we think were truly missing (i.e. iconic species, etc.)?

Because if it's animals we just randomly want, I'd replace the sea lion with the great white pelican in my list, and the capybara with the black-capped squirrel monkey.
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
Swjosdotschka said:
Hmm, okay, let me try:

  • Arctic Fox
  • Capybara
  • Wombat (I'd go with Emu though, if we didn't have the cassowary)
  • California sea lion (and switch that dang giant otter with the asian small clawed, please!)
  • Lar Gibbon
  • Hymadras Baboon (nope, noafrican leopard for me, becazse of reasons stated. )
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I’d go with all of these answers as well except the Africa Pack, I’d add in the Crested Porcupine.
 

Jeminyne

Jeminyne
NZFanatic said:
Yeah we really are missing a lot of important hoofstock, but I sometimes feel like I'm the only one who wants them. The eland is great, the addax is a massive conservation project for the AZA, the scimitar-horned oryx is a conservation icon, the blackbuck would be marvellous mixed in with the Indian rhinoceros, the gerenuk is just so wonderfully weird, then there's the various duiker which all look awesome, and the klipspringer which is a super interesting antelope.

For whatever reason people think antelope are 'boring', and so I assume Frontier is staying away from them.
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I was honestly pleasantly surprised with the Nyala being in the base game. Not a lot of antelope species compared to a real zoo, but I'm glad they didn't consider the Nyala just a lesser alternative to the prettyness of the bongo. Both are lovely, was cool getting both. Would also love to see those you listed, and the greater kudu, the dikdik, the duiker... I can see why modders have made so many antelope. They must be similar enough that they are easy to make, but have so many beautiful and varied colours/patterns.
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Jeminyne said:
I was honestly pleasantly surprised with the Nyala being in the base game. Not a lot of antelope species compared to a real zoo, but I'm glad they didn't consider the Nyala just a lesser alternative to the prettyness of the bongo. Both are lovely, was cool getting both. Would also love to see those you listed, and the greater kudu, the dikdik, the duiker... I can see why modders have made so many antelope. They must be similar enough that they are easy to make, but have so many beautiful and varied colours/patterns.
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It's just too bad modders can't create unique sounds, habitat information boards, and decent new animations yet.

Of course this leads back into the circular discussion of the game's potential. There's really no end to the amount of content that could be produced for PZ, but economically I guess it isn't necessarily viable to pour resources into it for another ten years just to maintain a core player base. Hopefully they'll keep it going for at least another year or two after this one.
 

Chuditch

Chuditch
I'd choose:
  • Wolverine (Arctic) - Completely fine with either this or the Arctic Fox, just chose the mustelid given we already have an Arctic canid.
  • Capybara (South America) - Far and away the community favourite at this point, so it would be insanity to leave it out.
  • Tasmanian Devil (Australia) - Back before the Arctic Pack was even announced, I made a 5 species Australia Pack prediction based on the size of the DLC we had gotten for JWE. Every habitat species we got in the official pack was one I had predicted (hence why the selection felt pretty perfect to me) but unfortunately the one species that was left out was the devil.
  • Platypus (Aquatic) - Will need to come alongside an update reducing the deep diving requirements, otherwise it would be ridiculous. If not, California Sealion is the obvious choice.
  • Asian Small-clawed Otter (Southeast Asia) - Very common in zoos around the world, and also contrasts strongly with the Giant Otter in being the world's smallest otter species. Similar to the platypus, it would require greatly reduced deep diving requirements to work properly (this pack would be a good opportunity to bring those changes alongside it as a free update); otherwise, I nominate the Javan Mouse-deer.
  • Crested Porcupine (Africa) - Two rodents in one pack, why not?
 
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