DLC18 discussion and predictions
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I'm not too crazy about it but yay colour morphs
I take it back it looks really good (the lighting in this place is doodoo)
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It looks great. I really wish we could have snow like that on other maps like temperate for example.
Let’s just hope the sifaka isn’t the lemur rig!
As far as I know, in the so-called "Western zoos", there are far more PD deer owners than Dama Gazelle.
It's just a generalisation as I'm not familiar with how Chinese zoos prioritise their ungulate collections, I'm sure we can argue over specific animals that are more popular than others but it doesn't change how frontier views what ungulates from around the world deserve a place ingame. If anything, the pere david deer should of been part of the conservation dlc but for some reason it wasn't.
Then again in the western zoos there’s no wild yak
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I might be wrong, but there isn't a import restriction and prohibition of moving they though states for deers on US? Making then very hard to obtain and mantain a exotic deer population on the country? Not sure about Mexico and Canada though.
Then what? What do you want to express? Did we get domesticated yaks?? Also, the number of domestic yaks should be more than that of markhor or dikdiks.
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The United States is responsible for the "zombie virus", so each state is very strict on deer.
The whole we didn't get x is going to get stale very fast, support is done (I'm 80 percent sure of that) and we need to look to the future for the hopeful sequel. Educate and encourage people that x is worth including in a second planet zoo and participate in the meta wishlists when those are made, that's really the only sure way that we can let everyone know that animals like the pere davids deer and anything else is a worthy addition.
What would you replace with the deer?
Amur Leopard, Przewalski's Horse and Scimitar-Horned Oryx all have the most iconic conservation stories, and I feel like all of them are essential to a conservation DLC.
...that only leaves one possible slot...
Maybe the oryx? Any of the ungulates would work from wetlands
Everything in this pack was high up in the meta wishlist, and I'm keen on the likely sequel having plenty of the remaining high up animals as part of the starting roster. Crossing fingers for aviary and aquarium support in that one, as well as an exhibit revamp.
I personally would had gone with a squirrel monkey instead of the second ruffed lemur for the 2nd anniversary, but that's it with the free animals. All the remaining ones are neat additions to the vanilla roster of the game, while vanilla already came with 2 lemurs. Leopard is neat, peccary and deer are great.
I personally would had gone with a squirrel monkey instead of the second ruffed lemur for the 2nd anniversary, but that's it with the free animals. All the remaining ones are neat additions to the vanilla roster of the game, while vanilla already came with 2 lemurs. Leopard is neat, peccary and deer are great.
How could you have a conservation DLC in Planet Zoo without the one iconic animal that was saved by zoos?
As for wetlands... Honestly I'm happy with what we got. I guess swapping the caiman for the deer would have been good, but then people would have been mad about having too many ungulates
Well assuming we get the lar gibbon regardless, the siamang could of easily been the deer but then it's starting to feel like the arid pack if we go that route. A lot of people were excited for the new brachiation mechanics that the siamang brought even in their basic form until the lar gibbon arrived. I don't know, a lot of the dlc we have got missed the mark by one animal and conservation was just that.
Dude, how China exhibits ungulates is not really relevant, let's look at some data. I'm going to assume that the Western zoos you mentioned are mainly European and American zoos (if you disagree, you can tell me which Western zoos you generally refer to). Then according to the data on zootierliste, let me give you a few examples. There are 233 zoos that own Reeves' muntjac in the EU, non-EU European countries, and North America. There are 95 Axis deer. There are 334 Sika deer, including all subspecies. There are 82 PD deer. There are 32 tufted deer. There are 32 Visayan spotted deer. And what about antelopes....bongo only 98. There are 69 Nyala. There are 57 Black sable antelope. There are 94 Addax. There are 152 Scimitar-horned oryx. There are 49 Nile lechwe. There are 35 Addra gazelle. There are 36 White-tailed gnu. From the above data, I don't see that antelopes are more common in "Western zoos". So, it just doesn't make sense that deer and antelopes are so rare in the game.
The most suitable position for PD deer is to replace river buffalo in the "Wetlands DLC". Although I like river buffalo very much, from a realistic point of view, PD deer is much more suitable.
I'm sure this has been mentioned plenty of times before when the Asian ungulates support was here last year or in your Asian deer thread. Zootierliste has a lot of German / central European wildlife parks or similar that are full of deer. I'm talking about the fully fledged conservation zoos, the ones that frontier visit to study the animals. I or others likely don't want to sift through hundreds of zootierliste entries to compare results.
The biggest difference is I'm indifferent to deer and you are very passionate about them. My original point was trying to explain the thought process why the PD deer wasn't included, not to debate how common they are.