The reptiles and exhibit animals in the game are lacking in a few different behaviours that could be explored more, and perhaps even a free update that adds a few more exhibit species.
Exhibit Animal Free Update:
This pack would include 8 high profile exhibit animals that would come as free additions to the game, the largest venomous snake, the longest snake in the world, a reptile that is the only one of its kind, the turtle with the biggest bite, a lizard that absorbs water up through grooves in its skin, the largest salamander in the world, often considered the world's most dangerous spider and an insect known for its stillness.
These would be the following:
King Cobra
Reticulated Python
Tuatara
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Thorny Devil
Chinese Giant Salamander
Sydney Funnel-Web Spider
European Mantis
Perhaps also three habitat reptiles to showcase a few of the new behaviours and mechanics, these being a species of crocodilian, a species of monitor lizard and a species of tortoise for the base game.
The Free Crocodilian can be the Nile Crocodile
The Free Monitor Lizard can be the Lace Monitor or Perentie
And the Free Tortoise can be either the African Spurred/Sulcata Tortoise
What new features could be featured in the game regarding reptiles and some of the other exhibit animals.
Accurate Breeding and care for infants:
This could be a way of introducing eggs into the game as a way of reproduction, the reptiles could have both a gestation period as well as an incubation period, one of the animals that would benefit from this would be the crocodilians such as the American Alligator. They would require new items that could just be called "Nest Items" so these could have different variations like leaves and sticks, but for others, they would dig nests into the sand and the patch that is the nest can be identifiable. When the eggs hatch, the hatchlings would emerge from the nest and the female crocodilians could carry their offspring in their jaws. A need for semi aquatic plants like reeds would be good as well, to replicate the environment that the hatchlings would be growing up in for a while and the perhaps reptiles an extra hatchling stage can be added, where the babies would be smaller, then they can develop from hatchlings, to juveniles and then to adults.
This can be said the same for the exhibit animals, frogs and salamanders can lay eggs in the water or in a water-filled bromeliad for the poison dart frogs particularly, then they could also have a few tadpoles too. Spiders and scorpions can have an egg sac which could have little spider-lings and scorp-lings over the egg sac closer to hatching time. Some other insects like butterflies can have caterpillars, then cocoons and then the butterfly emerges, beetles and such can lay eggs on leaves and other exhibit items. Snails would lay eggs and so would centipedes. For the Bats, the females could hang and fly with a baby on their belly. The Snakes, Turtles and Lizards would lay eggs on land of course.
For the habitat reptiles, hatchlings would emerge from the sand or nests and for crocodilians, the mothers would protect them, but for the monitor lizards would have to climb up into the trees until being moved to safer housing. Gharials would hang around with their young and unique animations for the hatchling could include riding around on their parents' heads and backs.
This same method of reproduction and nesting animations could also work for birds too, there can be hatchling flamingos, cranes, ratites and penguins. They create a nest and the ratites can lay their unique eggs, the cassowaries with their green eggs, and emus with their blue eggs. Flamingos laying their eggs in mounds of mud and penguins building nests out of different items.
Placeable items like "Nest Rocks" that can have land and water variations where penguins could dive down and collect rocks to build their nests. This would be particularly helpful if we were to get Gentoo and Rockhopper Penguins in the future.
New Idle Animations:
New basking animations for crocodilians, lizards and tortoises. These can include crocodilians like caiman having new items like a placeable sand bank, basking logs and basking rocks for crocodilians and monitor lizards to bask on particularly, also underground dens in the banks of the rivers for crocodilians. The crocodilians could have several different basking positions, like caiman holding their heads up, lying down with open jaws, maybe also half in and out of water. Tortoises doing a stretch animation where they stretch their necks and legs on the spot. Komodo Dragons standing proud with their eyes closed basking on a rock, or lying down with legs hanging over, or lying flat and outstretched with a yawning animation.
More New Items: Placeable heat lamps for habitat reptiles to have their temperature maintained in hard shelters. Placeable hollowed out rock shelters for the monitor lizards, and perhaps open air exhibits for some of the exhibit animals like Eastern Blue-Tongued Lizard and perhaps future lizards, tortoises, turtles and snakes. Placeable Dead Trees and Branches to decorate water bodies for crocodilians. Maybe also prop skeletons of animals such as buffalo, goats, wildebeest and deer, particularly for Komodo Dragon enclosures.
Some other new behaviours: Crocodilians in particular should be able to move under the surface of shallow water by walking along the bottom of the body of water, this can provide for what are more realistic zoo enclosures. Also Crocodilians resting on the bottom of bodies of water like they would in real life and having a nictitating membrane covering their eyes underwater. Gharials should also have their movement remastered, they should slide along the land more, as they are a species better adapted for water than land.
Could the Gharial also have a thinner snout.
New Colour Morphs:
Flores Komodo Dragon: a more colourful population of Komodo Dragons from Flores in Indonesia
Variations for the Saltwater Crocodile that have more yellow and green, with black patching on their tails
All these new features can point to the further future of Planet Zoo, these are just ideas for the reptiles, birds and the exhibit animals, but who knows what could be done for all the habitat animals that currently exist in game.
Exhibit Animal Free Update:
This pack would include 8 high profile exhibit animals that would come as free additions to the game, the largest venomous snake, the longest snake in the world, a reptile that is the only one of its kind, the turtle with the biggest bite, a lizard that absorbs water up through grooves in its skin, the largest salamander in the world, often considered the world's most dangerous spider and an insect known for its stillness.
These would be the following:
King Cobra
Reticulated Python
Tuatara
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Thorny Devil
Chinese Giant Salamander
Sydney Funnel-Web Spider
European Mantis
Perhaps also three habitat reptiles to showcase a few of the new behaviours and mechanics, these being a species of crocodilian, a species of monitor lizard and a species of tortoise for the base game.
The Free Crocodilian can be the Nile Crocodile
The Free Monitor Lizard can be the Lace Monitor or Perentie
And the Free Tortoise can be either the African Spurred/Sulcata Tortoise
What new features could be featured in the game regarding reptiles and some of the other exhibit animals.
Accurate Breeding and care for infants:
This could be a way of introducing eggs into the game as a way of reproduction, the reptiles could have both a gestation period as well as an incubation period, one of the animals that would benefit from this would be the crocodilians such as the American Alligator. They would require new items that could just be called "Nest Items" so these could have different variations like leaves and sticks, but for others, they would dig nests into the sand and the patch that is the nest can be identifiable. When the eggs hatch, the hatchlings would emerge from the nest and the female crocodilians could carry their offspring in their jaws. A need for semi aquatic plants like reeds would be good as well, to replicate the environment that the hatchlings would be growing up in for a while and the perhaps reptiles an extra hatchling stage can be added, where the babies would be smaller, then they can develop from hatchlings, to juveniles and then to adults.
This can be said the same for the exhibit animals, frogs and salamanders can lay eggs in the water or in a water-filled bromeliad for the poison dart frogs particularly, then they could also have a few tadpoles too. Spiders and scorpions can have an egg sac which could have little spider-lings and scorp-lings over the egg sac closer to hatching time. Some other insects like butterflies can have caterpillars, then cocoons and then the butterfly emerges, beetles and such can lay eggs on leaves and other exhibit items. Snails would lay eggs and so would centipedes. For the Bats, the females could hang and fly with a baby on their belly. The Snakes, Turtles and Lizards would lay eggs on land of course.
For the habitat reptiles, hatchlings would emerge from the sand or nests and for crocodilians, the mothers would protect them, but for the monitor lizards would have to climb up into the trees until being moved to safer housing. Gharials would hang around with their young and unique animations for the hatchling could include riding around on their parents' heads and backs.
This same method of reproduction and nesting animations could also work for birds too, there can be hatchling flamingos, cranes, ratites and penguins. They create a nest and the ratites can lay their unique eggs, the cassowaries with their green eggs, and emus with their blue eggs. Flamingos laying their eggs in mounds of mud and penguins building nests out of different items.
Placeable items like "Nest Rocks" that can have land and water variations where penguins could dive down and collect rocks to build their nests. This would be particularly helpful if we were to get Gentoo and Rockhopper Penguins in the future.
New Idle Animations:
New basking animations for crocodilians, lizards and tortoises. These can include crocodilians like caiman having new items like a placeable sand bank, basking logs and basking rocks for crocodilians and monitor lizards to bask on particularly, also underground dens in the banks of the rivers for crocodilians. The crocodilians could have several different basking positions, like caiman holding their heads up, lying down with open jaws, maybe also half in and out of water. Tortoises doing a stretch animation where they stretch their necks and legs on the spot. Komodo Dragons standing proud with their eyes closed basking on a rock, or lying down with legs hanging over, or lying flat and outstretched with a yawning animation.
More New Items: Placeable heat lamps for habitat reptiles to have their temperature maintained in hard shelters. Placeable hollowed out rock shelters for the monitor lizards, and perhaps open air exhibits for some of the exhibit animals like Eastern Blue-Tongued Lizard and perhaps future lizards, tortoises, turtles and snakes. Placeable Dead Trees and Branches to decorate water bodies for crocodilians. Maybe also prop skeletons of animals such as buffalo, goats, wildebeest and deer, particularly for Komodo Dragon enclosures.
Some other new behaviours: Crocodilians in particular should be able to move under the surface of shallow water by walking along the bottom of the body of water, this can provide for what are more realistic zoo enclosures. Also Crocodilians resting on the bottom of bodies of water like they would in real life and having a nictitating membrane covering their eyes underwater. Gharials should also have their movement remastered, they should slide along the land more, as they are a species better adapted for water than land.
Could the Gharial also have a thinner snout.
New Colour Morphs:
Flores Komodo Dragon: a more colourful population of Komodo Dragons from Flores in Indonesia
Variations for the Saltwater Crocodile that have more yellow and green, with black patching on their tails
All these new features can point to the further future of Planet Zoo, these are just ideas for the reptiles, birds and the exhibit animals, but who knows what could be done for all the habitat animals that currently exist in game.
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