Primate Wishlist

sumcherish82

sumcherish82
My pick

1. Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
2. Common Squirrel Monkey
3. Golden Lion Tamarin
4. Bengal Slow Loris
5. Geoffroy's Spider-Monkey
6. Common Marmoset
7. Black Howler Monkey
8. Gelada
 

TomSm

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1. Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
2. Red-Shanked Douc
3. Emperor Tamarin
4. De Brazza's Monkey
5. Black Howler Monkey
6. Hamadryas Baboon
7. White-Faced Saki
8. Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
 

Alexjh

Alexjh
Update to as of TomSm, full list in original post

- First 3 species broke the 20 vote barrier (Hamadryas baboon, black howler monkey, golden lion tamarin)

- Some growth in the middle ranked species, feels like we might be separating into distinct tiers a bit on the current trajectory?

- Taxonomic wibbly wobbly time! Geoffroy's and Black-headed Spider Monkey are regarded by some authorities as the same species. If we take that stance, the combined species would actually be in 1st place with 25 votes!

- Aye-aye is only non-monkey to breach top 10, with a respectible 10 votes.

- New entries: Red-shanked douc, Mantled Howler Monkey and Guinea Spider-monkey

- Still no apes. Much as I can understand why and wouldn't vote for one myself, I'm a little surprised there is seemingly no fanbase at all for say Mountain Gorrilla?
 

Captain Callum

Captain Callum
Alexjh said:
Update to as of TomSm, full list in original post

- First 3 species broke the 20 vote barrier (Hamadryas baboon, black howler monkey, golden lion tamarin)

- Some growth in the middle ranked species, feels like we might be separating into distinct tiers a bit on the current trajectory?

- Taxonomic wibbly wobbly time! Geoffroy's and Black-headed Spider Monkey are regarded by some authorities as the same species. If we take that stance, the combined species would actually be in 1st place with 25 votes!

- Aye-aye is only non-monkey to breach top 10, with a respectible 10 votes.

- New entries: Red-shanked douc, Mantled Howler Monkey and Guinea Spider-monkey

- Still no apes. Much as I can understand why and wouldn't vote for one myself, I'm a little surprised there is seemingly no fanbase at all for say Mountain Gorrilla?
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I assume the same kind of people who hate the idea of a brown Throated Sloth because of the whole captivity success rate would oppose the mountain gorilla on the same grounds
 

synthetase

synthetase
In order of personal priority.
  1. Mongoose Lemur
  2. Black Howler Monkey
  3. Geoffrey's Spider Monkey
  4. Senegal Galago (WE???????)
  5. Marmoset sp...
  6. Mantled Guereza
  7. Golden Lion Tamarin....
  8. Hamadrayas Baboon
I'm not too into primates but, as a vast group, we could use more of them. Objectively they are probably underrepresented. Especially, the New world ones which is why I replace an iconic Madagascar primate with the Marmoset.
 

Matyej167

Matyej167
1. Mantled howler
2. Golden snub-nosed monkey
3. Golden lion tamarin
4. Geoffroy's spider monkey
5. Gelada
6. Southern plains grey langur
7. Common marmoset
8. Aye-aye
 

Alexjh

Alexjh
AlexSea said:
I oppose the inclusion of the Mountain Gorilla because it would be a pointless clone that would add nothing of value to the game.
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I mean, I agree in the context of a finite animal addition budget, it's more just I'm vaguely surprised that it doesn't get any love as there are vocal proponents of say extra subspecies for tigers, lions, giraffes, wolves etc which are less distinct than a separate gorilla sp.
 

Fallax

Fallax
Alexjh said:
I mean, I agree in the context of a finite animal addition budget, it's more just I'm vaguely surprised that it doesn't get any love as there are vocal proponents of say extra subspecies for tigers, lions, giraffes, wolves etc which are less distinct than a separate gorilla sp.
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Probably because other gorillas are virtually nonexistent in captivity
 

Baryonix82

Baryonix82
  1. Diademed Sifaka (CR)
  2. Red-shanked Douc (CR)
  3. Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (EN)
  4. Lion-tailed Macaque (EN)
  5. Golden Lion Tamarin (EN)
  6. Brown Spider Monkey (CR)
  7. White-headed Marmoset (LC)
  8. Ecuadorian Squirrel Monkey (LC)
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Alexjh said:
I mean, I agree in the context of a finite animal addition budget, it's more just I'm vaguely surprised that it doesn't get any love as there are vocal proponents of say extra subspecies for tigers, lions, giraffes, wolves etc which are less distinct than a separate gorilla sp.
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As @Mayki says different subpopulations and subspecies of tigers, giraffes, and wolves, all exist in real-life captivity while the mountain gorilla does not. Most of the wishes around here for more of those animals, no matter how similar they are to existing ones, are because people want the animals they regularly see in the zoos they visit. Sumatran tigers are a lot more common than Bengal tigers in captivity, and more endangered, too. Mountain gorillas aren't in captivity at all.

On top of that, every time we get a "new version" of a base game species, in terms of modelling it blows the original out of the water. If we got a new tiger or lion, it would likely look far better than the existing ones. Since Frontier seems wildly resistant to making any sort of modelling improvements on any of the base game animals, or even the DLC animals (looking at you, black-and-white Baird's tapir), for some of us the best hope of updates exists in similar-looking new animals.
 

Angeł

Angeł
NZFanatic said:
As @Mayki says different subpopulations and subspecies of tigers, giraffes, and wolves, all exist in real-life captivity while the mountain gorilla does not. Most of the wishes around here for more of those animals, no matter how similar they are to existing ones, are because people want the animals they regularly see in the zoos they visit. Sumatran tigers are a lot more common than Bengal tigers in captivity, and more endangered, too. Mountain gorillas aren't in captivity at all.

On top of that, every time we get a "new version" of a base game species, in terms of modelling it blows the original out of the water. If we got a new tiger or lion, it would likely look far better than the existing ones. Since Frontier seems wildly resistant to making any sort of modelling improvements on any of the base game animals, or even the DLC animals (looking at you, black-and-white Baird's tapir), for some of us the best hope of updates exists in similar-looking new animals.
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This is why I always support the so called ‘clones’ of base species. Give us the Sumatran Orangutan, Eurasian Brown Bear, European Bison, Sumatran Tiger, Asiatic Lion… If they aren’t going to update the models of the older species, the best we can hope for are these kind of animals!!!
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
missconception said:
This is why I always support the so called ‘clones’ of base species. Give us the Sumatran Orangutan, Eurasian Brown Bear, European Bison, Sumatran Tiger, Asiatic Lion… If they aren’t going to update the models of the older species, the best we can hope for are these kind of animals!!!
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I agree, for the most part. However, there's also the caveat that everyone has different priorities; should Frontier add more "clones", or should they focus on adding newer animals that are still missing from the roster? For example, this latest pack included the lar gibbon and water monitor. The monitor definitely looks a lot better than the Nile monitor did, but because of it we didn't get something like one of the new monkeys discussed in this thread. Arguably more monkeys are far more important to the roster than new clones.

(As an aside, personally I'd have ditched the gibbon for a new monkey, but that's just my opinion).
 

gibbonman

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A while ago, Lar Gibbon would've definitely been here, but here we are.
  1. Sifaka sp. (prefer Coquerel’s but that’s just me)
  2. Geoffrey’s spider monkey
  3. Black (or red) howler monkey
  4. Gelada
  5. Aye aye
  6. Golden lion tamarin
  7. Golden snub nosed monkey
  8. Crested macaque
 
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