DLC20 Discussion (maybe, but why not?)

How would everyone have felt if we had gotten the African forest elephant as our third elephant instead? (for the sake of argument assume it made thematic sense for this pack)

Personally I think I would have slightly preferred it, but still nowhere near enough to justify its inclusion.
That will do. Beside, Asia Animal Pack was already confirmed and no changes, redo and/or do-over after that.
 
For people who just like getting ungulates or really any animals, the african forest elephant would of gotten the exact same reaction of "cool, a new elephant". Theres no justification or hopping around points to prove to the rather obsessed playerbase why an elephant was better than this other animal. It's a new elephant, a new smaller elephant, great I'll treat it like the Hippopotamus and pygmy Hippopotamus, I don't care if its a subspecies or species.
 
I think the galling thing about the elephant is that the community by-and-large has accepted that we're going to be getting basic copy-paste animals at this point, and even has regularly mentioned preferences for species and subspecies that fit this bill, and yet Frontier still managed to somehow fumble it. Like seriously - if the elephant had been the Sumatran tiger instead I would have wet my pants. That would have been a perfect pack.
This is exactly what I’ve been thinking about the new elephant. I’ve seen so, so many people on here campaigning for a second zebra, a second giraffe, a third tiger, more wolves… we got our second flamingo and it was met with neat-unanimous praise, and plenty of people were down for the Asiatic lion before this pack’s roster got revealed.

I’ll admit that I tend to see those animal choices as redundant and uninteresting, but I would have preferred almost all of the above to a new elephant subspecies of all things. It just seems like an out-of-touch pick on Frontier’s end, which is sadly not a big surprise…
 
Actually outside of myself and some others a lot of people did not like the American Flamingo, especially over birds like the roseate spoonbill
I was one of those people actually 😅 You can't deny, though, that there was no outrage when the flamingo was included in the last pack, no passionate debates on whether it was a "wasted slot" or not. Although that could just be because we're all a bit desperate for birds lol.
 

I was one of those people actually 😅 You can't deny, though, that there was no outrage when the flamingo was included in the last pack, no passionate debates on whether it was a "wasted slot" or not. Although that could just be because we're all a bit desperate for birds lol.
I think we all kinda knew it was inevitable and that is was much more likely that any other of the pink birds. Frontier doesn't do oddball bird choices. So we kind of accepted the flamingo was very likely. On top of that it was a true improvement from the base game flamingo and it was a bird for the Américas that had none at the time. Plus it did have a following before it was added. So it had a lot more going for it that the elephant hasn't.
 
I was one of those people actually 😅 You can't deny, though, that there was no outrage when the flamingo was included in the last pack, no passionate debates on whether it was a "wasted slot" or not. Although that could just be because we're all a bit desperate for birds lol.
  • It was a new species
  • It was a significant improvement in quality over the greater flamingo
  • It was visually distinct
  • It gave representation to another part of the world
  • It enriches our zoos offering a real choice that might be more realistic for certain locations
 
I'm starting to think all the festive decorations, flowers, lights... were supposed to be part of the final DLC (zookeepers), like a global party. But due to the recent changes, we're now getting the festive decorations spread out, since they were probably already finished. It's likely the same happened with several animals like getting the badger in a asia pack. Maybe when they run out of those we get pieces with new themes or maybe they will just bring back the exihibit animals
 
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