New Animals Found in Planet Zoo Files

[ziggycardon]

I fully expect to see many of these species (otters, porcupine, marmosets, capybara, etc) make into the game at some point. However I sincerely doubt that they would be marketed as a "small mammal" pack. Personally I think this would be a major marketing fail. I fancy myself an amateur zoologist and even to me this title sounds uninspiring, perhaps because "small mammal" to me refers to a very specific subset of animals formerly referred to as "pocket pets". I have no interest in paying to have virtual gerbils and guinea pigs.
The species that people are lumping together into the label "small mammal" are so diverse taxonomically, size-wise, geographically, or any other category you should choose, as to make the label meaningless and ridiculous. I think Frontier is far more likely to release thematic packs, such as the predicted geographic (e.g. Australian) or biome (e.g. polar) packs. I expect these to have more popular appeal, and also lend themselves to including themed items and decor. I think even taxonomic packs (e.g. felids, canids, ungulates, etc.) would fair better than a totally random grouping such as the proposed "small mammals". I hope we do see some taxonomic packs such as primates & aves, but I think by and large other such packs would be unsuccessful. I have already seen complaints that there are too many ungulates in the game, a pack dedicated to exotic deer and antelope may be a tough sell.

I agree and I am not saying they should name it Small Mammal pack, that's why frontier have a marketing team, all I am saying one amateur zoologist to another is that I believe there might just be a DLC focussing on them.
And I agree I do think they will indeed go with packs focussed on continents, habitats and packs focussed on genus different orders & genus.
Since new world monkeys are going to be scarce during launch I do predict a primate pack dlc will be made but I don't really see packs coming for rondents cause like you mentioned, people just won't buy that because it doesn't sound that attractive. But maybe instead of a DLC we might get them in an future free update, JWE had the free Fallen Kingdom update so who knows for Planet Zoo
I have faith in Frontier, they know what to do and always find the best way to include such things and to keep their games growing and thus far they have never disappointed me.

 

[Kaan]

In my opinion, in my opinion, DLC packets will be output by region names. and the DLCs, which are probably by region names, will not be too large. But I think all marine animals will just come in a dlc. Like Marine Mania. because they will not want to constantly distribute the animals in other packages. Imagine that marine animals come in four or five separate expansion packages. this is a very wrong strategy. I think only big DLCs will come out with a special name. just like zoo tycoon 2. Marine Mania is the biggest example of this.
to me, I wouldn't have created a DLC by region name. because I don't think it will attract much attention.

 

[AndyZoos]

I fully expect to see many of these species (otters, porcupine, marmosets, capybara, etc) make into the game at some point. However I sincerely doubt that they would be marketed as a "small mammal" pack. Personally I think this would be a major marketing fail. I fancy myself an amateur zoologist and even to me this title sounds uninspiring, perhaps because "small mammal" to me refers to a very specific subset of animals formerly referred to as "pocket pets". I have no interest in paying to have virtual gerbils and guinea pigs.
The species that people are lumping together into the label "small mammal" are so diverse taxonomically, size-wise, geographically, or any other category you should choose, as to make the label meaningless and ridiculous. I think Frontier is far more likely to release thematic packs, such as the predicted geographic (e.g. Australian) or biome (e.g. polar) packs. I expect these to have more popular appeal, and also lend themselves to including themed items and decor. I think even taxonomic packs (e.g. felids, canids, ungulates, etc.) would fair better than a totally random grouping such as the proposed "small mammals". I hope we do see some taxonomic packs such as primates & aves, but I think by and large other such packs would be unsuccessful. I have already seen complaints that there are too many ungulates in the game, a pack dedicated to exotic deer and antelope may be a tough sell.

Yeah, I definitely don't anticipate something coming out called a "small mammal" pack. That's just how I've chosen to label it in my discussions around here (based mostly on the fact that that is how zoos tend to refer to them when housing them in one particular section of a zoo, e.g., "Small Mammal House"), highlighting that I hope there's a focus on that kind of animal in the future. It's definitely an oversimplification, so I apologize for that!

Anyway. I think what you've described is probably far more likely. I am anticipating a series of thematic region- or biome-focused packs as well as some supplemental animal "type" packs that will round everything out. However that is organized, I'm sure will vary. I am hoping for doing packs focused on birds of prey, tropical birds, nocturnal animals, mustelids, canids, felids (to steal some of the terms you used ).

All I know is that I'm hoping to have enough selection to devise zoos with sections devoted to different regions of the world, as well as different animal type, across a few zoos.