Sloths: WE vs Habitat

[DrBurrito]

Considering they mostly don't move, I imagine them more in a WE than in a habitat. I'd be fine with both, yes, but thinking about it and knowing how PZ works, a thousand angry guests would complain they can't see the animal cause the sloth prefers to sit in a tree at the backside of the habitat for 10 ingame years...

Assuming their space requirement will be very small, this shouldn't be much of a problem. They would be visible at all times. Plus, they wouldn't need a shelter, so this would make them even more visible than most animals. My bet would be on them being one of the most visible animals in the game. Therefore, the biggest and probably the only concern is if they can pull off behaviors properly. I see that as the only obstacle.

 

[Aramar]

I think that we should differentiate the two phases that this game has had. The first two years we had a regional approach with the DLCs and North America and especially Europe were the last ones to be addressed. Don't forget that Europeans had to wait for two years to get a decent representation.

After this first phase, now in 2022 Frontier has been trying to cover as much geographical representation in each new pack as possible (including exhibit animals). The wetlands and conservation pack were heavily Asian focused, then the Twilight was heavily North American focused (which makes sense being marketed as a Halloween pack). Then the anniversary gave us a European/African/Asian animal. I'm sure Frontier will add more South America and Australia representation as soon as they have a suitable pack for them. An island pack will probably be more focused on Oceania, while a desert pack will probably be more focused on the Middle East. A grassland pack could benefit South America and Australia too.

Time will tell (and we should know in just a couple weeks!).

 

[premierfong]

I am fine with WE.

 

[sympatrick]

Sloths live in huge habitats in real life. They live in large rainforest houses, where even in my local zoo, they're free to explore to their heart's content.

Not that I'm against habitat sloths, but I think the WE is bigger than every sloth habitat I've seen in real life. I do agree on other points though.

Just checked requirements in the game to make sure. Small animals like koalas and binturongs all have space requirements smaller than the new exhibit type. Although due to how traversable area works, they probably end up being bigger.

 

[FlameWizard492]

Not that I'm against habitat sloths, but I think the WE is bigger than every sloth habitat I've seen in real life. I do agree on other points though.

Agreed. Over the weekend, I saw a sloth in an exhibit that wasn't the size of a WE. It was only slightly bigger than the regular exhibits. Imagine if the exhibit was traversable from top to bottom, like if the bottom of the exhibit was not elevated and just on ground level.

 

[jcp011c]

I think that we should differentiate the two phases that this game has had. The first two years we had a regional approach with the DLCs and North America and especially Europe were the last ones to be addressed. Don't forget that Europeans had to wait for two years to get a decent representation.

After this first phase, now in 2022 Frontier has been trying to cover as much geographical representation in each new pack as possible (including exhibit animals). The wetlands and conservation pack were heavily Asian focused, then the Twilight was heavily North American focused (which makes sense being marketed as a Halloween pack). Then the anniversary gave us a European/African/Asian animal. I'm sure Frontier will add more South America and Australia representation as soon as they have a suitable pack for them. An island pack will probably be more focused on Oceania, while a desert pack will probably be more focused on the Middle East. A grassland pack could benefit South America and Australia too.

Time will tell (and we should know in just a couple weeks!).

Hopefully we will know in a couple of days, not weeks. Assuming the release is announced on Friday.

As far as WE exhibit birds go, I'm hopeful for global representation within the 6 heavily populated regions. But I think personally I'd like to see quite a few more WE type of birds from South America more than anywhere else. As far as what could likely be habitat animals, like storks, cranes, etc I'd like to see several from Africa.