DLC18 discussion and predictions
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I would also prefer habitat animals in the majority of cases, but if it’s between straight up clones and a bunch of requested and unique exhibit animals, I’d easily chose the exhibits.
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And pretend you don´t enjoy it
I would prefer habitat animals too, but I don't see Frontier giving us more than 7 in a single pack
I mean, a Cobra, Chameleon, a Two Toed Sloth and something else -Orchid Mantis for exhibit, or Spurred Tortoise or Tamarin for the WTE.
They said it’s coming in a couple of weeks:
“There is something coming in the next couple of weeks and it’s super duper exciting”
I don’t know where this idea is coming from but if Frontier seriously locks one of the largest tortoise species in the WTE I will be upset.
Can't deny though that Keas or Griffon Vultures as Exhibit Animal would be amazing.
lol and then we'll just end up getting the Mountain Chicken 
Or they could re-use the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect. That whole Thing is a Mountain
Yeah but the whole point that's been repeated a few times already is that this wouldn't have to be a Zookeeper Collection Pack.
The idea of a Zookeeper Collection Pack started to form when Frontier released a Parkmanagers Collection Pack for JWE2. The only reason why it was ever relevant is because that ended up being the last pack for JWE2. We could draw two conclusions from that. A Zookeeper Collection Pack could be a possible DLC for the game, as an equivalent that was perfectly marketable already exists for JWE2. And if we got a Zookeeper Collection Pack, that it would be a a bit of a sign that it was the last DLC of the game.
Now, that was the only part where a Zookeeper Collection Pack was relevant. People kinda ran with the idea, but it was never really that any pack that is more of a collection of different animals has to be Zookeeper Collection Pack, that the game should end on a Zookeeper Collection Pack, that the game will end on a Zookeeper Collection Pack, or that a Zookeeper Collection Pack has to be a thing to begin with.
Brings me back to the point. You could say "hey, lanterns and flags that seems Asian, there are two clear highlands animals, this is a Higlands pack!" (yes, I'm still not counting Hamadryas as a clear mountain species, nobody can convince me otherwise
). You could also say "hey, the lanterns, the flags and the party tent, that points to a party!" and then we're looking at a pack that is more of a celebration. With the 5th anniversary coming up, which is a big deal after all, maybe we're in for a celebration pack!Planet Zoo being about animals, the obvious thing to celebrate would be well... animals! And then, any animal can honestly fit the theme, but you'd probably go for some animals that have unique traits or have other "weird and wonderful" things about them. A baboon with a very special looking male, a cat that looks grumpy all the time, a goat species with a big beard and very curly horns. And if we venture further and take a look at the dictionary animals that were removed, a lemur species that runs unlike any other we have in the game, a dik-dik that has a unique way of walking.
Plenty of things you can use to unify the theme, and a pack celebrating the weird and wonderful animals of the world is just as marketable as something like the World Fair Pack or a concept like conservation in the Conservation Pack. Names for the pack are in abundance. Wild and Wonderful Animal Pack, Animal Celebration Pack; heck even Anniversary Pack could just work as well. Plenty to choose from, and plenty less marketable names have been used for packs in the past for both Planet games.
Am I saying that there's nothing pointing to a Highlands/Mountains pack? No, not at all. I can see what people are going for with the lanterns and the flags. I can understand the argument of two prominent mountain species being featured on the art. But "all signs point to it"? That I disagree with. There's some obvious things that are off and have been discussed many times already, I'm not going to repeat it all, you can read the arguments for them in the previous posts.
And honestly, again, a Pallas Cat could literally be the headliner of any pack it is in. It's a grumpy cat. Why are we even discussing this; of course it's a super marketable animal. Are we really going to ignore how many grumpy but cute animals have gone viral over the past decade? I'd say it's one of the most obvious picks for a headliner animal in a long while.
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Strikes me as a more difficult way to do the tortoise, being pretty close to a clone. I don't think resizing has been too much of an issue, going off the Pygmy Hippo and Komodo anyway.
Spurred Tortoise in WTE 
Anaconda in WTE
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Anaconda in WTE
Debating if it’s key art or not
What is happening right now
This was actually a real thing at one point at the South Lakes Safari Zoo in England which is well-known for all the wrong reasons.
lol but keeping the Option for Guests to enter for that one.Anaconda in WTE
Also need Reticulated Python for the Walkthrough Exhibit
(the only Snake that's known to have actually eaten People and the biggest one in the World)
I'm sorry, but these are the worst things ever. The spurred tortoise worked in ZT2 as a regular animal and it'll work the same in PlanZoSpurred Tortoise in WTE
Anaconda in WTE
The anaconda can fit perfectly in the exhibit box and people saying they're too small aren't realizing that at the Houston Zoo we have 3 reticulated pythons in a room roughly the same size
It's plenty big enough for being a habitat animal, but so are anacondas and iguanas. Plus, being smaller means they have a shorter stride than the island giants. Therefore, they're covering even less ground for an already super slow family of animals. This would only exasperate issues seen with tortoises trying to reach their food/water before dying. Monitor lizards and mammals much much more quickly, so this problem applies to less of a degree
But that's likely because people build huge habitats for them. If you build giant habitats, then of course the tortoises will have trouble
I also vividly remember tortoises having the same issues as in Planet Zoo about them taking forever to fulfil their needs because they move so slowly. Difference with PZ is that ZT2's slower time meant they weren't as prone to dying (also being able to manually pick up and place down the tortoise without dealing with a whole unpacking animation helped a lot too). Planet Zoo has neither of these forgotten luxuries.
If the African spurred tortoise is added... It will 100% be a habitat animal, and honestly it would be a reason to FIX the issues we have with the current tortoises. I really doubt they would put it in a walkthrough exhibit just to avoid that.
Also anacondas (or any snakes for that matter) as a habitat animal would never happen, if you think koalas and clouded leopards are janky this would be that turned up by a thousand.
Also anacondas (or any snakes for that matter) as a habitat animal would never happen, if you think koalas and clouded leopards are janky this would be that turned up by a thousand.