"Low Effort" Ideas for a Retrospective 1st Anniversary Gift
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Honestly no he has a point.Assuming we're asking for or wanting 8 more giraffes is a quite a different thing than what's going on, in which case if someone even wants another giraffe , they would mostly like only one more. That's me for instance. Yeah, I'd like a second giraffe, it's an iconic animal in terms of recognition, popularity and presence in zoos. Having a second would give us a choice and variety of more than just one species, which is really no choice at all. I have no interest in having a third giraffe though.
Core takeaway here, overdramatizing the numbers to an extreme misses the entire point of a thread like this.
Anyways, gonna do what here what i did before; if you reply I won't see it. Enjoy your day
Sure 1 giraffe is fine, but any more really eh i wouldnt want it.
8 more antelopes? Not the most exciting, but defenetly doable. A line up of common eland, greater kudu, sitatunga, dhamas gazelle, black buck, nilgai, addax and impala wouldnt be the most exciting thing on the planet, but most if not all of them could comfortably fill a pack if some filler is needed.
8 copy primates? (tufted capuchin, squirrel monkey, drill, rhesus macaque, sulawesi crested macaque, black lemure, crowned lemure, mongoose lemure)
8 ducks? (mallard, mandarin, wood, eider, white faced whistling, ruddy shell duck, white cheeked pintail, australian wood)
8 goats? (Himalayan Thar, Chamois, Rocky Mountain Goat, Moufflon, Barbary Sheep, African Dwarf Goat, Markhor, Girgentana (italian breed thats endangerd)
8 Pheasents? (ring necked, gold, silver, himalayan monal, edwards, satyr targopan, lady amethyst, blue eared pheasent)
I think this does proof the point of what the best clones would be quite well
A penguin might be a good animal to have as a free gift. There are a few common zoo species we still don't have (Gentoo, Humboldt, Marconi, Chinstrap, etc.), but there isn't an obvious pack for one of them to fit in.
8 more antelopes.
Gerenuk - Long limbs make it stand out
Saiga - Gas mask make it look like it's from another planet
Blackbuck - Beautiful, and was in the first ever nature movie I've seen, being hunted by Tigers
Dik-Dik - Smallest, and cute name.
Eland - The biggest and look like no other Antelope
Great Kudu - One of the most beautiful and stupid, it doesn't even defend itself against lions.
Topi - The fastest antelope, and it looks really strange with bizarre colors.
Addax - The rarest of antelopes, but with this one I'm stretching.
Impala, I've seen them too much on television, Nilgai is another one I'd wouldn't mind to see, but I can't unsee an image of it with a very small head.
In that order, thank you kindly
8 More goats?
1: Markhor
2: Takin
3: Musk Ox
4: Aoudad
5: Mountain Goat
6: Moufflon
7: Chamois
That would be all
8: Thar, if I have to choose.
Penguin, not really something I want, but the Blue Penguin is kinda cute and different. Also the Rockhopper of course.
Gerenuk - Long limbs make it stand out
Saiga - Gas mask make it look like it's from another planet
Blackbuck - Beautiful, and was in the first ever nature movie I've seen, being hunted by Tigers
Dik-Dik - Smallest, and cute name.
Eland - The biggest and look like no other Antelope
Great Kudu - One of the most beautiful and stupid, it doesn't even defend itself against lions.
Topi - The fastest antelope, and it looks really strange with bizarre colors.
Addax - The rarest of antelopes, but with this one I'm stretching.
Impala, I've seen them too much on television, Nilgai is another one I'd wouldn't mind to see, but I can't unsee an image of it with a very small head.
In that order, thank you kindly
8 More goats?
1: Markhor
2: Takin
3: Musk Ox
4: Aoudad
5: Mountain Goat
6: Moufflon
7: Chamois
That would be all
8: Thar, if I have to choose.
Penguin, not really something I want, but the Blue Penguin is kinda cute and different. Also the Rockhopper of course.
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You have a point and you're right, they do as well. Though I think the extremeness of the examples had some overdramatization about it.
Anyways, yeah we all have our animals where we'd gladly take as many as possible of. So I guess somewhere, someone does want 8 giraffes. For me though? I would happily take every single otter species on the planet.
To be fair, New World monkeys are so critically underrepresented in the game anyways that even if they are "low effort" clones" they'd still be welcome by most players. We've gotten one New World primate and that was over three years ago.
And the Barbary macaque would be a great addition for upper Africa and a tiny little bit of Europe, that's pretty sparse right now.
Yeah I'll give a free pass to getting more monkeys since the situation with them is very out of synch with zoo and wildlife representation.
Yeah a little blue penguin or rockhopper would be nice as anniversary as well.
The squirrel monkey as well.
So far i can think of some animals i can see as anniversary gift that i would like
1. Greater rhea
2. Black rhinoceros
3. Dromedary camel
4. Nile crocodile
5. African spurred tortoise
6. Blackbuck
7. Impala
8. Greater kudu
9. Golden pheasant
10. Squirrel monkey
11. Little blue penguin
12. Rockhopper penguin
13. Grey crowned crane
14. Big horned sheep
15. Perentie
16. American flamingo
17. Masai giraffe
18. Grevy's zebra
19. Addax
20. African leopard
Most of these animals are not very high profile (not as wanted, not very high in the meta wishlists, or animals people wouldn't pay for) but still iconic, or their place in current DLCs have been currently taken or they are cool in their own right but would take a slot in a future DLC for a more unique animal and all of them are fairly easy to make from pre existing rigs. Some require a bit more model work. And of course some like the dromedary, the blackbuck, the crane, the pheasant, rhea or perentie could still be part of up coming New DLC and people would be happy with them but are still clone-ish material.
As has been talked about before, this is a great pack idea that could release after this year/mid next year, if Frontier wanted to give extend PZ's life. 3 or 5 more "normal" packs such as we've been getting with 1-2 clone type of animals, and then after that go into a variety pack. Lower effort = lower investment for Frontier, and they could look at the pricing too, possibly.
The difference between 3-5 more packs and then 1 or 2 variety/clone packs, versus 3-5 more packs and nothing else? I know which I'd choose (the former, of course). And, no one would be forced to buy them either. (not that they are forced to buy packs now). If someone doesn't want to spend money on clone animals, that's great - don't buy the pack.
Only if it is a fitting bird
I feel like most of these Ideas I'm reading in the responses, particularly on the 1st page, are Future Anniversary Gift level (sometimes even DLC level), meaning they could be too Time and Resource-Consuming for a Retrospective Gift, which likely will not happen anyway. That's why I went with so called "Super Clones" for Habitat Animals, and Intermediate-High Level Clones for Exhibit. I'm thinking about organizing these Ideas into a Spoiler or Spoilers, without the Number of Votes they received next to them, so that we can get more Creative with our Brainstorming to find as many options as possible, without worrying about popularity and ranks.
Actually I'd prefer a Green Tree Python myself, since it would be the 1st Python and not a 3rd Boa, but being more Unique, I wanted to save the Python Slot for a Future Gift or Paid DLC. Basically I excluded the more Popular Type Groups (on the Exhibit Meta-Wishlist), that don't have any Representation in the game yet, out of my suggestions. Things like Cobras, Chameleons, Geckos, Pythons, etc, which are at the very top of the List, as well as some Mid-Tiers like Vipers, Mambas, Beardies, etc. If a Mid-Tier Type Group has dissolved because it already has representation in the game, like Green Anaconda, it is Free Game.
I usually don't include "Super Clones" in my Future Anniversary Gift ideas, but since this is a Retrospective Bonus Gift, which likely will never happen, I thought "Super Clones" would be more likely than more "Unique" Clones.
I'm really liking some of these more recent Ideas. As time passes by we are getting some really good ones. Apart from the obvious "Super Clones" in the form of different Subspecies or Subpopulations of animals already in the game, different but very similar Species are also welcome and perhaps even more Valuable in terms of Brainstorming. This Subcategory probably would pass both as a Future and Retrospective Gift.
some ideas i can think of that i didn't see mentioned:
- barbary macaque from japanese
- elk (wapiti) from red deer
- red wolf from any wolf
- mexican wolf from any (zoo tycoon)
- forest buffalo from cape
- moths from butterflies
- red ear slider from terrapin
- eu pond turtle from terrapin
- another tarantula? (peacock maybe)
- another bat? (vampire maybe)
- blue poison dart frog
- black rhino from white
- bighorn sheep from dall
- roe deer from fallow
- honey badger from european
- serval from caracal
- ocelot from caracal
- aardwolf from striped hyena
- nile crocodile from saltwater
- two toed sloth (linnaeus) from three toed
- grey crowned crane from red
- another armadillo?