Sequel Packs

FlameWizard492 · Jul 11, 2023

The Arid Animal Pack has given me a bit of hope. It's basically a sequel pack to the Africa Pack with its focus on African desert animals. Do you all think that this could inspire the fine folks at Frontier to do similar sequel packs to existing Scenery or Animal Packs? It doesn't have to be called "[Name] Pack Part II." They can just give it a different title. I'd prefer if it'd be exclusively animal packs though.
Here are some examples of sequel pack theme ideas:
Arctic Pack - Tundra Animal Pack
South America Pack - Amazon Animal Pack, Andean Animal Pack
Australia Pack - Oceania Animal Pack, Outback Animal Pack
Aquatic Pack - Marine Animal Pack
Africa Pack - Safari Animal Pack
Conservation Pack - Endangered Animal Pack

What are your thoughts?

jcp011c · Jul 11, 2023

Honestly for me, the only one I’d really like to see is an Amazon Animal Pack. Though I’m sure I’d buy whatever came out.

Marvinb · Jul 11, 2023

Well we kinda already got some sequels.
Tropical gave the scenery that was missing in the SEA animal pack.
And arid added a whole bunch of animals to go alongside with the north african desert them of the africa pack. Those two a definetly the biggest for me, but alot of packs do compliment others to some extend.

Some other ideas:

Amazon animal pack - SA: definetly the most obvious one, aswell as my favorite.

Swamp pack - Wetlands: provide scenery for the Wetlands animals like stilt cabins, a mossy wood set, small boats and stuff. Could add animals like shoebills, marshdeer, collared mangabey monkeys

Urban pack - multiple : general city scenery like cars, street signs etc. Would go great with mainly the twilight pack but also a couple others.
Could add animals like grey langurs, brushtail possum, some kind of waterfowl, wild boar/blackbear mabye

synthetase · Jul 11, 2023

Marvinb said:
Urban pack

I like your idea!
Urban Animal Pack

Grey Langur
Mallard Duck
Wild Boar
American Black Bear
Coyote
Virginia Opossum
Prevost's Squirrel
Pigeons and/or Doves (WE)

Tundra Animal Pack (I'll add alpine tundra animals as well)

Musk Ox
Wolverine
Walrus
Domestic Yak
Mountain Goat
Mouflon
Sichuan Takin
Game Birds (WE) Rock Ptarmigan would go with the DLC, others wouldn't necessarily

Safari Pack

Nilgai
North American Elk
Bat-eared Fox OR a Jackal
Secretary Bird OR Grey-crowned Crane
idk

For the safari pack I think it would be cool if Frontier added animals people could see "on safari" worldwide. For example, elk are seen in Yellowstone!

jcp011c · Jul 11, 2023

Marvinb said:
Well we kinda already got some sequels.
Tropical gave the scenery that was missing in the SEA animal pack.
And arid added a whole bunch of animals to go alongside with the north african desert them of the africa pack. Those two a definetly the biggest for me, but alot of packs do compliment others to some extend.

Some other ideas:

Amazon animal pack - SA: definetly the most obvious one, aswell as my favorite.

Swamp pack - Wetlands: provide scenery for the Wetlands animals like stilt cabins, a mossy wood set, small boats and stuff. Could add animals like shoebills, marshdeer, collared mangabey monkeys

Urban pack - multiple : general city scenery like cars, street signs etc. Would go great with mainly the twilight pack but also a couple others.
Could add animals like grey langurs, brushtail possum, some kind of waterfowl, wild boar/blackbear mabye

Great ideas. I wasn't thinking of scenery packs, but now that I am I'd be up for a North American Scenery pack - called it a Prairie or Plains pack. Theme could be the American Wild West or Prairie type of setting. I'm not sure on the exhibit but the habitat animals are below:

Big Horn Sheep
Coyote
American Black Bear - though more common in associated with mountains and Woodlands, their range extends into the Southwestern United States.
Greater Roadrunner

Alternate habitat animals could be the Ocelot or Collard Peccary - though they are more associated with Central and South America, their ranges extend into Mexican and slightly into the lower Southwestern United States.

Marvinb · Jul 11, 2023

jcp011c said:
Great ideas. I wasn't thinking of scenery packs, but now that I am I'd be up for a North American Scenery pack - called it a Prairie or Plains pack. Theme could be the American Wild West or Prairie type of setting. I'm not sure on the exhibit but the habitat animals are below:

Big Horn Sheep
Coyote
American Black Bear - though more common in associated with mountains and Woodlands, their range extends into the Southwestern United States.
Greater Roadrunner

Alternate habitat animals could be the Ocelot or Collard Peccary - though they are more associated with Central and South America, their ranges extend into Mexican and slightly into the lower Southwestern United States.

Since the arid-africa and SEA-tropical are both an animal and scenery pack pair i thought it would be interessting to continue that trend

jcp011c · Jul 11, 2023

Marvinb said:
Since the arid-africa and SEA-tropical are both an animal and scenery pack pair i thought it would be interessting to continue that trend

Absolutely, makes sense, it's not always just about the animals we get. Scenery is important too!

oca2074 · Jul 12, 2023

I don't want people to forget: Central America is part of North America.

A Central America Scenery Pack would 100% be a sequel to the North America Animal Pack.

It doesn't have to be woodland/temperate pack for this apparent "sequel trend" to continue.

SivatheriumGuy · Jul 12, 2023

Marvinb said:
Tropical gave the scenery that was missing in the SEA animal pack.
And arid added a whole bunch of animals to go alongside with the north african desert them of the africa pack.

I genuinely wouldn't be shocked if the Autumn pack turns out to be the pieces pack counterpart of the NA Animal Pack.

FlameWizard492 · Jul 12, 2023

SivatheriumGuy said:
I genuinely wouldn't be shocked if the Autumn pack turns out to be the pieces pack counterpart of the NA Animal Pack.

If it will be a counterpart to the NA Animal Pack, it seems like it will either be Woodlands, Highlands, or the Western Hemisphere.

jcp011c · Jul 12, 2023

FlameWizard492 said:
If it will be a counterpart to the NA Animal Pack, it seems like it will either be Woodlands, Highlands, or the Western Hemisphere.

Since all of those can contain the Wolverine and one the Tasmanian Devil, this would make people happy.

Short of an all bird pack or revisiting the Amazon, I would think we’d have to get one of those two if not both

leehonglocal · Jul 12, 2023

FlameWizard492 said:
The Arid Animal Pack has given me a bit of hope. It's basically a sequel pack to the Africa Pack with its focus on African desert animals. Do you all think that this could inspire the fine folks at Frontier to do similar sequel packs to existing Scenery or Animal Packs? It doesn't have to be called "[Name] Pack Part II." They can just give it a different title. I'd prefer if it'd be exclusively animal packs though.
Here are some examples of sequel pack theme ideas:
Arctic Pack - Tundra Animal Pack
South America Pack - Amazon Animal Pack, Andean Animal Pack
Australia Pack - Oceania Animal Pack, Outback Animal Pack
Aquatic Pack - Marine Animal Pack
Africa Pack - Safari Animal Pack
Conservation Pack - Endangered Animal Pack

What are your thoughts?

Well then I hope that some of those packs will have these although I put some of these same/similar ones in other threads:

Outback Animal Pack

Perentie
Short-beaked echidna
Numbat
Eastern grey kangaroo
Frilled lizard (E)

Marine Animal Pack

Green sea turtle
Rockhopper penguin (third penguin species will be nice)
Walrus
Sea otter
Small fish like clownfish and piranhas (Pygocentrus)(E)

And if full aquatic will be agreed and accepted to be there:

Dugong
West Indian manatee
Arapaima AKA pirarucu

Safari Animal Pack

African leopard (most wanted and hoped for)
Baboon (any species that zoos have)
Masai giraffe
Black-backed jackal
Either green or black mamba (E)

Any questions like why I choose the species and subspecies?

nutrit · Jul 12, 2023

Endangered Animal Pack is something I would buy without any hesitation.

Tasmanian devil
Secretary bird
Goodfellow Tree kangaroo
Lion tailed macaque
Sumatran rhinoceros
Perè David’s deer
Geoffroy's spider monkey
Saiga
WE: Golden lion tamarin or Hyacinth macaw

FlameWizard492 · Jul 13, 2023

nutrit said:
Endangered Animal Pack is something I would buy without any hesitation.

Tasmanian devil
Secretary bird
Goodfellow Tree kangaroo
Lion tailed macaque
Sumatran rhinoceros
Perè David’s deer
Geoffroy's spider monkey
Saiga
WE: Golden lion tamarin or Hyacinth macaw

Here's how I'd do it:

Lowland Anoa
Visayan Warty Pig
Lion-Tailed Macaque
Persian Onager
Goodfellow's or Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
Black-Footed Ferret
Corquel's Sifaka
WE: Spix's Macaw

FlameWizard492 · Jul 13, 2023

leehonglocal said:
Any questions like why I choose the species and subspecies?

It sounds like you want us to ask about why you choose the species and subspecies. No judgment. You can discuss it if you'd like. I'm a bit confused about the manatee and the dugong though. I feel like one of those can be swapped out to add more variety to the pack because they're both sea cows.

leehonglocal · Jul 13, 2023

Well, here's my reasons why I wanted Planet Zoo to have (as soon as possible after more than three years)

African leopard: so that all of Africa's Big Five (along with both African rhino species) to be there. Two YouTube songs featuring those Big Five hardly tell why they're called that.
Masai giraffe: nice to have another giraffe species and i thought Masai one's the second popular.
Perentie: cancelled Zoo Kingdom and Zoo Tycoon 2013 got three varanids (monitor lizards), one from each of three continents that have varanids so I wanted an Australian one to be there too. One more Asian one was in Planet Zoo.
Rockhopper penguin: nice to have a third penguin species.
Small fish like clownfish and piranhas (Pygocentrus)(E): fish is the only one of the five groups/kinds of vertebrates not in that game. Just nameless ambient ones being food to adoptables.

And I also hoped that at least one toad species, last of four types of amphibians (frogs, one newt and one salamander) to be there. Also cobras and chameleons.

leehonglocal · Jul 13, 2023

FlameWizard492 said:
I'm a bit confused about the manatee and the dugong though. I feel like one of those can be swapped out to add more variety to the pack because they're both sea cows.

What did you mean about that? If you're wondering about differences between dugongs and manatees, it's their tail-fins. Dugongs' are like whales' and dolphins' while manatees' are round.

SivatheriumGuy · Jul 13, 2023

FlameWizard492 said:
If it will be a counterpart to the NA Animal Pack, it seems like it will either be Woodlands, Highlands, or the Western Hemisphere.

What if we got a Marine Pack with a Harbor or Coastal theme? The NA Animal Pack was pretty aquatic, and I think many animals would fit it (Walrus, sea otter, manatee, pelican,...). The tropical pack also added species from several continents, so something like a penguin wouldn't be off the charts either.

leehonglocal · Jul 13, 2023

SivatheriumGuy said:
What if we got a Marine Pack with a Harbor or Coastal theme? The NA Animal Pack was pretty aquatic, and I think many animals would fit it (Walrus, sea otter, manatee, pelican,...). The tropical pack also added species from several continents, so something like a penguin wouldn't be off the charts either.

After my most wanted ones' official confirmation and arrival, Marine Pack would be my next wanted and agreement.

FlameWizard492 · Jul 13, 2023

leehonglocal said:
What did you mean about that? If you're wondering about differences between dugongs and manatees, it's their tail-fins. Dugongs' are like whales' and dolphins' while manatees' are round.

Still, they're pretty similar creatures.