Lovely. What height do you recommend?
Do you thing we're done getting regular exhibit animals?
- Thread starter AlexSea
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Id like to have one for 1, 2, 3 and 4 meters of height, with a second one with 2 meters being the minimum. Its really hard to place them into smaller indoor areas where youd see terarriums normally and it really hurts their usability.
For some perspective for how large they actually are, a normal terrarium is often something like 1mx0,5mx0,5m.
Heres a reasonably larger one at 1mx1,5mx0,6m.
Now a visuallisation of what 4x4x4 meters aka 64 m^3 look like:
You see the problem i have with the exhibits?They are just unreasonably large and really should not be that big without smaller alternatives. But everything in this game is disgustingly big, like man 4 meter as the norm is completly whack.
Ideally, I would like 1 Standard and 1 Walkthrough Exhibit Animal in each Pack. Without compromising Habitat Slots of course. Would this change Costs too much for Frontier if they were to sell the Packs for the same price? I don't know. But I'd love 4 Habitat Animals + 1 E + 1 WE in Scenery Packs and 7 Habitat Animals + 1 E + 1 WE in Animal Packs.
I'd also pay for separate Exhibit Animal Packs only featuring Standard and Walkthrough Exhibit Animals. By that I mean an additional Pack to the regular Seasonal Cycle we have. Like x1 Exhibit Pack Annually, without compromising other Packs.
They are still unflexible as hack due to their enormous size. Yeah from the inside i also made it appear smaller and have it 4x1x4 meter, but the thing still takes up so much space and pierces the building of the building i put it in. If i want the thing to be small i shouldnt have to cover the whole thing up, i should have a version that just isnt gigantic, which really isnt to much to ask
I have been talking about mini dlcs that give us 8 exhibit critters and don’t interrupt our 4 basic dlcs. There’s lot of potential for WE and it does itch us closer to having birds. Realistically all I can see with WE at this point would be small birds, koi ponds or turtle ponds.
I had also hoped the formula would have changed to 4+1+1 or 7+1+1 but that doesn’t seem like it’s gonna happen.
I had also hoped the formula would have changed to 4+1+1 or 7+1+1 but that doesn’t seem like it’s gonna happen.
I hope not. But i think that if they come back (and they should we are still missing lots of basic snakes and lizards) they should come back with an overhaul of the exhibit boxes with null walls and diferent shapes and sizes and with the animals having more animations/ behaviours even if they are looped.
After thinking about it, theres actually one new exhibit animal for the old system that would excite me. It isnt a snake, chameleon or any other animal that could fit into the boxes we allready have, but something special, the olm.
Now you might look at this whack sausage and ask yourself why i, the exhibit hater guy, find them intriguing and would prefer them even over a WE for a pack.
The olm, while looking like a long weird Axolotl would bring something to the game no other Exhibit Animal can, a Cave exhibit. They are from the Dinaric Alps of South Eastern Europe and are among the very, very few Members of the Chordates (Vertebrates + some aquatic Invertebrate Groups) that exclusivly lives in caves. This could offer an unique opportunity for frontier to give us a (semi) aquatic cave exhibit with the potential of being very unique from every other exhibit in the game.....or they could just put it in the default aquatic one and meh that would minder its appeal by alot.
But that isnt all because besides bringing in a completly new ecosystem so far only somewhat explored by the fruit bats, they have some more things going for them.
For one, its a rare case where we have a rather close evolutionary link to another animal allready in the game for a fun education display, as the olm have evolved from salamanders that got flushed into the cave systems of the Danubic Alps, quite possibly being formerly fire salamanders.
Another + for the Olm is a big minus (imo) for most exhibit animals. I dont like the tiny exhibit animals in the giant enclosures and if i use them only take either those that can stick to the glass, have bright colors to easily spot them or are sizeable enough to be easily spotted. One of these offenders i wouldnt pick is the danube crested newt for simply being extremly tiny with their 12 to 15 centimeters, but no not the olm. The largest exclusivly cave dwelling animal in the world averages around 25-30 centimeters, with exceptionally long indiviuals going up to 40 centimeters, a consequence of them being the apex predator of the cave systems they inhabit, making them rather easy to spot.
The olm also has another trick up its sleve, and that is low competition.
The exhibit spot for a mountain pack is rather uncontested, with its best rival being new zealands keas, which are still questionable in the fact if frontier will ever put in birds in their game, meanwhile salamanders do just fine.
So if we get a mountain pack, i wouldnt be shocked finding the olm in such a pack and i gotta say, it has the possibility to if treated right by frontier, be not only a great but unique last classic exhibit.
Would it be a bit whack that all 4 of the last classic exhibit animals were salamanders, 3 of them from europe? Yeah but who cares this guys dope
Now you might look at this whack sausage and ask yourself why i, the exhibit hater guy, find them intriguing and would prefer them even over a WE for a pack.
The olm, while looking like a long weird Axolotl would bring something to the game no other Exhibit Animal can, a Cave exhibit. They are from the Dinaric Alps of South Eastern Europe and are among the very, very few Members of the Chordates (Vertebrates + some aquatic Invertebrate Groups) that exclusivly lives in caves. This could offer an unique opportunity for frontier to give us a (semi) aquatic cave exhibit with the potential of being very unique from every other exhibit in the game.....or they could just put it in the default aquatic one and meh that would minder its appeal by alot.
But that isnt all because besides bringing in a completly new ecosystem so far only somewhat explored by the fruit bats, they have some more things going for them.
For one, its a rare case where we have a rather close evolutionary link to another animal allready in the game for a fun education display, as the olm have evolved from salamanders that got flushed into the cave systems of the Danubic Alps, quite possibly being formerly fire salamanders.
Another + for the Olm is a big minus (imo) for most exhibit animals. I dont like the tiny exhibit animals in the giant enclosures and if i use them only take either those that can stick to the glass, have bright colors to easily spot them or are sizeable enough to be easily spotted. One of these offenders i wouldnt pick is the danube crested newt for simply being extremly tiny with their 12 to 15 centimeters, but no not the olm. The largest exclusivly cave dwelling animal in the world averages around 25-30 centimeters, with exceptionally long indiviuals going up to 40 centimeters, a consequence of them being the apex predator of the cave systems they inhabit, making them rather easy to spot.
The olm also has another trick up its sleve, and that is low competition.
The exhibit spot for a mountain pack is rather uncontested, with its best rival being new zealands keas, which are still questionable in the fact if frontier will ever put in birds in their game, meanwhile salamanders do just fine.
So if we get a mountain pack, i wouldnt be shocked finding the olm in such a pack and i gotta say, it has the possibility to if treated right by frontier, be not only a great but unique last classic exhibit.
Would it be a bit whack that all 4 of the last classic exhibit animals were salamanders, 3 of them from europe? Yeah but who cares this guys dope
No it quite frankly wouldnt as most true cave dwellers arnt even vertebrates.
Like stated above, the olm is the largest animal endemic to caves and propaply also the only desireable one. I truthfully dont know all the options but most are simply pale spiders, insects and scorpions, which while cool couldnt carry a dlc.
I wonder what frontier is cooking since birds are absolutely worthless in their eyes. WE require as much attention as habitat species. I doubt they will put resources into something obscure like colugo or produce even more bats or moths.
Maybe we will back to standard exhibit next pack? At Least one habitat species will receive more attention this time and i would gladly take chameleon in island/mountain/desert pack. Last 3 DLCs were kinda lackluster due to WE inclusions.
Maybe we will back to standard exhibit next pack? At Least one habitat species will receive more attention this time and i would gladly take chameleon in island/mountain/desert pack. Last 3 DLCs were kinda lackluster due to WE inclusions.
We should really have an exhibit option that fits the size of the window space in the modular wall pieces. It would be pretty easy for building indoor terrariums and a more realistic space for bugs and frogs.