Do you guys think we need more scenery packs?

[RedPandaReggie]

So I have seen this tossed up every now and then as to whether we have enough scenery packs. Personally, I am an animal pack person, I love seeing great swathes of new animals added in a DLC, though it is just 3 extra species, but after Oceania Pack, the only other scenery set I would personally like to see would be some kind of Native American Theme alongside perhaps something like a Woodlands Pack, adding animals like Elk, American Black Bear, Wild Turkey, potentially Bobcat and a walkthrough exhibit Pileated Woodpecker. But other than that, I don't see much more that is necessary, compared to the necessary expansion of key areas of the planet that have gone severely underrepresented over the course of Planet Zoo's lifespan. So I would personally like to see Planet Zoo's future as adding animal packs and see how that goes, but what do you guys think? Are there any other key themes that you could see being substantial enough to make a solid pack with (other than of course Native American), as a majority of themes that players would like to see, can be custom made already in the game. So, would you guys like to see more animal packs over scenery packs, or keep it the way it is, exchanging between the seasons with animal pack and then a scenery pack and so on.

If we were to get all animal packs next year, I would go for something akin to this:

Latin America Animal Pack:

1. Black Howler Monkey
2. Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
3. Spectacled Bear
4. Southern Tamandua
5. South American Coati
6. Patagonian Mara
7. Ocelot or Greater Rhea
8. Walkthrough Exhibit - Macaws (Scarlet, Hyacinth, Blue-and-Yellow, Military, Red-and-Green)

Coastal Animal Pack:

1. Pacific Walrus
2. Southern Sea Otter
3. Brown Pelican
4. Southern Rockhopper Penguin
5. Green Sea Turtle
6. West Indian Manatee
7. Common Bottlenose Dolphin or a Cuban or American Crocodile or a Crab-Eating Macaque
8. Exhibit - Coconut Crab or a variety of Hermit Crabs

Forests Animal Pack:

1. Elk
2. North American Black Bear
3. Eastern Wild Turkey
4. Goodfellow's or Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
5. Coquerel's Sifaka
6. Short-Beaked Echidna
7. Japanese Raccoon Dog
8. Walkthrough Exhibit - Pileated Woodpecker or a Squirrel/Sugar Glider

Safari Animal Pack:

1. Secretary Bird
2. Hamadryas Baboon
3. Honey Badger
4. Greater Kudu
5. Mantled Guereza
6. Shoebill
7. Nile Crocodile or African Spurred Tortoise
8. Exhibit - Black Mamba or Gaboon Viper or Jackson's Three-Horned Chameleon

Aviary Expansion (1 bird per previous DLC with some having selections that share similar animations)

1. Arctic - Snowy Owl
2. South America - Toco Toucan
3. Australia - Laughing Kookaburra
4. Aquatic - Mute Swan
5. Southeast Asia - Rhinoceros Hornbill
6. Africa - Ruppell's Griffon or White-Backed Vulture or an African Fish Eagle
7. North America - Bald Eagle
8. Europe - Peregrine Falcon
9. Wetlands - Roseate Spoonbill
10. Conservation - California Condor
11. Twilight - Barn Owl or Tawny Frogmouth
12. Grasslands - Grey Crowned Crane
13. Tropical - Victoria Crowned Pigeon
14. Arid - Greater Roadrunner or Budgerigar
15. Oceania - Rainbow Lorikeet
16. Greater Asia (what it is looking like to be) - Mandarin Duck
17. Latin America - Scarlet Ibis
18. Coastal - Atlantic Puffin
19. Forests - Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise
20. Safari - Southern Ground Hornbill

But that is what I think. What are your thoughts?

 

[Marvinb]

Need? Probably not, but i do certainly do want more.
Planet Zoo undeniably is also a Sandbox building game and builders make up a big part of the playerbase, so just abandoning making their prefered content would stink.
I really think the 50/50 split of scenery and animal packs we got for the past years is the overall best solution.

Personally im good on wall sets and wooden beam sets, so id be open to tweak the formular a bit and do 5 habitat animals and 150 instead of 200+ pieces or something similar for scenery packs. Because i still really want more decoration pieces and props.

 

[Annie_konik]

I'm unsure if I want more building pieces, but if we get more statues, that would be great. The statues' choices are limited. One could create a sculpture from basic shapes or stones, but that isn't easy. It means most players use identical statues in their zoos, making it harder to create a park that feels truly unique in this aspect. Allowing players to upload their own creations made in 3D programs would probably solve this problem. Similarly to the 2D media players can upload, they would be limited to a specific size and resolution.

Or just add three times as many statues, different styles, and sizes to the game so that we could have many more choices.

 

[Aramar]

Yes, we need the horizontal wood/logs set and a full gridded mesh set.

 

[Annie_konik]

Yes, we need the horizontal wood/logs set and a full gridded mesh set.

Yes, that would be so cool!

 

[ZSHplays]

I must have more scenery. WAY more mesh, a million generic zoo items, brown London-style bricks, more plant panels, more generic building pieces, more glass, rustic wood panels. I could go on forever!

 

[Captain Callum]

I need a 6th version of a different textured wooden pole, so yes there's always a need for more scenery packs.

 

[FoxyDee]

I think we are still missing more shapes of mesh...its very hard to build enclosures different than the regular cube shape with only the squere mesh pieces...we need at least different triangle and "bent" shapes... also more nature looking items to build habitats with (different shapes and textures of fake rocks, some new climbable fake trees, more dead trees, trunks...)

Would also love something like a fare rock wall, to easily decorate indoor enclosures without the need to use dozens of rocks:

And this, please - anti collision bird signs used on glass barriers. Yes, they are maybe proven to not work the best, but still they are used in zoos all the time. I am using the bat sings intead of them, butjust two types of bird ones would be a blessing:

Otherwise, I really do not need much else. I would really be fine with only animal packs. Still would love more foliage though!

 

[Milurian]

This game is built for the builders so scenery packs are incredibly important to the longevity of the game.

 

[Markiz]

Yes

 

[nutrit]

Yes, definitely

 

[TheHippoGirl]

I personally like the current formula of alternating between scenery and animal packs. I would not change it.

For scenery, the only theme I'm missing is Native American, which I think we should really get. Other than that, I would like more generic zoo pieces (new kind of faux rocks, new murals, more backstage items...)

 

[NZFanatic]

This game is built for the builders so scenery packs are incredibly important to the longevity of the game.

I think the point is that the "longevity" of the game isn't very long anymore. So do we need more scenery packs before the inevitable end of support, which is probably within the next 12 months, or should we stick to animals?

Not that it matters. Frontier will do whatever they want to do. There is definitely more scenery that could be added, more building sets. I'll be peeved if we get to the end without an on-grid mesh set considering how doable it is (I mean...all they need to do is retexture the existing glass piece with the texture from the mesh prop fences; they don't even really need to design a whole new set of assets).