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I get that it hasn’t come out yet, but what are some of your Eurasia Animal Pack hot takes? Here are some of mine:
- I never got into the hype behind the saiga antelope. I might’ve preferred the Persian onager as one of our obligatory ungulates.
- I would’ve preferred something like the blackbuck or the yak over the wisent.
- This one is my fault rather than Frontier’s: When I listened to the livestream, I got my hopes up for a Central Asia Animal Pack. I was hoping for a lion-tailed macaque.
now this is a hot take the persian ongaer over the saiga thats a new one and I definitely dont agree with you there
No idea why an animal suddenly has to be present in europe and asia to be in an eurasian animal pack tho.
The kiwi isnt native to every part of oceania either and not a single soul seemed to mind that
The problem is when people say eurasia they are referring to 2 different political continents intersection oceania is just a political continent. The animals did not need to cover all of eurasia just cover bits of both parts of the combination because it is a combination. I could get over the takin but the turtle and sloth bear are full endemic to europe and asia plus are far from the border and in different climatic regions to the rest of the animal making them stand out as odd additions.
All the animals are techinally from eurasia but to be in a pack with eurasia theming they need to embody eurasia not be endemic symbols their continents.
In one hand I understand the "Swans are not zoo animals" argument, in a sense that:
1. They're not exotic enought to be kept in zoos
2. That no zoo have dedicated habitats for Swans
On the other hand however, I don't think I've ever been to a zoo that didn't have Swans. Not in separate habitat, to be clear, but had them nonetheless. I mean, one could say then that Peacock isn't a zoo animal also.
And we need those animals as well if we want to make realistic zoos no?
I have never seen a swam in my life they do fill the same niche as peafowl of free roaming animals in a zoo but peafowl are more common I believe and do occasionally have purpose built areas for them unlike swans which usually just inhabitat ponds not necessarily built for them in particular. They are an important part of zoos and im glad they were added even if they never truly will feel like zoo animals.
Why do people think Eurasia means the animals have to live in BOTH Europe and Asia??? To me Eurasia means animals from Europe, Asia, or both. I don't get why people are upset that they included the Takin because it doesn't live in Europe. That seems so weirdly arbitrary.
its the fact that eurasia implies a connection to the 2 continents so adding 3 clearly regionally endemic animals felt weird for them them they are techinally eurasian but there were better choices for that theme
Isn't this pack pretty directly equivalent of Arid? 4 hoofstock from the same region, 1 highly requested carnivoran, 1 new unique rig (swan/porcupine), 1 big animal from an unrelated region (rhino/sloth bear).
Yeah it is but people are happy because its a different region that they have a bias towards. This pack ranks slightly above arid for me for a couple of reason 1 the swam is so much more unique then the porcupine and the fact that there is a birds and 2 other non ungulate mammals.
From my perspective, I think frontiers plan is to give us some of what we want and some we don’t with each pack. With this pack not only do we get a whole new chapter opened up with the waterfowl, but we also got a couple wanted ones like Takin and Wolverine, and others not so wanted like Saiga and Wisent.
The last pack would include a lot of wanted ones and would act as the finisher to satisfy everyone at once.
I find theis pack had a good balance on what people wanted everyone agrees on the swam being the best but noone can agree on the rest of the roster you have people who hate or love every single other animal for varying reason which I think is perfect because people will get the pack for the one they like and the most targets it can hit the more people will get the pack.
I don’t care if an animal isn’t captivity as long as it’s interesting and different from animals we already have.
This I couldnt care less about an animals status in captivity as long as there is no proof that captivity kills or severely hurts the animal and thats why its not in zoos then I would like to see them these animals make the packs stand out and feel unique.