Spring 2024 DLC Speculation

KönigDerKaffeebohnen

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frank1055 said:
As a player, I have always wanted to create a "Sichuan exhibition area" mainly featuring giant pandas, so snub-nosed monkey and takin、pheasant are definitely indispensable
Similarly, when I want to create Amazon or Himalayan themed exhibition areas, I still lack many iconic species such as anacondas, South American tapirs, and New World monkeys, bharal (the main food of snow leopards), and yaks.
So if we look at it from the perspective of your exhibition area, what other species do you need in your exhibition area?
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Just for my current zoo, spectacle bear, snowy owl, kunenune pig, ducks (many), chicken, goose, african dwarf goat, budgies, bunnies/guinea pigs, a tamarin, habitat sloth and 1 or 2 domestics like sheep pony or cattle to mix with my bactrian camels and we coverd all the habitats in my zoo for animals not in the game yet but either partially build or on the list of things i defenetly will build for.
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RightWhale

RightWhale
I know what species I have been championing for, but if we consider any species of duck, then just about every pack could have had one. I know that’s kind of too general, but I really don’t care what duck we get as long as we get one.

I mean here I can give a couple general ones:
  1. North America: mallard and wood duck come to mind, but even ruddy ducks could be on there too.
  2. Arctic: eider species, probably spectacled or king.
  3. Eurasia: this is the pack we got our first waterfowl, but mallard, widgets, shoveler, and mandarin work here as well.
  4. South America: WFWD, Muscovy, and Brazilian teal
  5. Wetlands: do I need to say anything? Literally anything works.
  6. Aquatic: same as above.
  7. Africa pack: African Pygmy goose (this is technically a duck!)
I could even go into more specifics, but this was off the top of my head.
 

RightWhale

RightWhale
frank1055 said:
So if we look at it from the perspective of your exhibition area, what other species do you need in your exhibition area?
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I’ve really wanted to make a zoo based on my local wildlife, all I need are the following:
  1. Waterfowl for NA, like the mallard or wood duck
That’s it for needs, but either of these two would be nice as well:
  1. American black bear
  2. Wild Turkey
Give me two birds and then I can really party for my regional NA zoo! The ABB is honestly more important for my NA zoos than the grizzly. Especially as the grizzly is more of a high end animal, and the ABB is a perfect medium size bear. Also they have a bunch of cool colormorphs and can swim and climb!
 

CharlieXGaming

CharlieXGaming
North America, Europe and Oceania I consider the most complete continents in the game; theres a couple that would make nice additions sure (tree roo, ABB, chamois, etc.) but none that we are in dire need of.
Africa and Asia are also in a pretty complete state, however these 2 are a bit different where they still have species that can be added that are way more popular than the ones missing from say NA or Europe. Baboon, a common captivity asian antelope, Secretary bird, Serval, etc. are all examples of this. So while you can build really good sections for these continents theres still a lot more that could be added to make it even more diverse and better in general.
Then theres South America... which does have a few key species (anteater, jaguar, capybara, etc.) but is still missing a lot of iconic species (birds and monkeys, mara, rhea, coati etc.) that make it harder to make SA sections, and this also impacts the diversity of these sections people make. The less SA variety we have, the more peoples sections for SA will look the same with what animals they have.

So in short, NA, EU, AUS are great and diverse, AS and AF are great and diverse but have popular species that could improve them even more, and SA is not complete and is dying for attention. And now enjoy another meme about ungulates cause theres never enough.
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Marvinb

Marvinb
CharlieXGaming said:
North America, Europe and Oceania I consider the most complete continents in the game; theres a couple that would make nice additions sure (tree roo, ABB, chamois, etc.) but none that we are in dire need of.
Africa and Asia are also in a pretty complete state, however these 2 are a bit different where they still have species that can be added that are way more popular than the ones missing from say NA or Europe. Baboon, a common captivity asian antelope, Secretary bird, Serval, etc. are all examples of this. So while you can build really good sections for these continents theres still a lot more that could be added to make it even more diverse and better in general.
Then theres South America... which does have a few key species (anteater, jaguar, capybara, etc.) but is still missing a lot of iconic species (birds and monkeys, mara, rhea, coati etc.) that make it harder to make SA sections, and this also impacts the diversity of these sections people make. The less SA variety we have, the more peoples sections for SA will look the same with what animals they have.

So in short, NA, EU, AUS are great and diverse, AS and AF are great and diverse but have popular species that could improve them even more, and SA is not complete and is dying for attention. And now enjoy another meme about ungulates cause theres never enough.
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Peak movie btw
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Asia is a weird one i feel like. Some areas are really good like SEA, which is kinda only missing a lowkey filler ungulate like anoa or spotted deer and a monkey, but even those are not desperately needed.
But you also have areas like the himalayas or india where you only got the star animals covered but almost nothing else
 

CharlieXGaming

CharlieXGaming
Crazy that we went from just 1 species of Australia which doesn't really symbolize Australia, to 19 species, plus like TheDuckKnight said it has probably the best bird roster, not just by how many but how diverse and good looking they are. 2 larger birds and 2 smaller, and also a bat. And all of them even the cassowary look great. I just want the Victoria Pigeon now to add even more but I know there are a lot of other birds that take priority.
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Mr-Hyrax 2

Mr-Hyrax 2
imagine if Frontier gave us a feathered animal pack. what choices would you pick and would you like that as a final pack, I would be 50/50 on it because I would like the pack but not as the final pack.

Feathered Animal Pack
Brown Pelican
Sectary Bird
Greater Rhea
Victora Crowned Pigeon or Helmeted Guinea Fowl
African Crowned Crane
Mandarin Duck
Roseta Spoonbill
(Walk-Through Exhibit) Budgies
 
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Birb（｡･ө･｡）

Birb（｡･ө･｡）
I’m thrilled with the state of Oceania and how far it’s come, but as long as we’re including birds I wouldn’t say that any region is complete. Oceania is undoubtedly in the best state bird-wise, but even then it’s only penguins and ratites - all of which were essential - but nowhere near representative of the region’s bird diversity in zoos. It’s like saying African ungulates would be well represented with just rhinos, zebras, and giraffes. Though again, this is more telling of the game’s bird roster as a whole than it is about Oceania’s. I think the Victoria crowned pigeon should’ve made it into the game long ago with how ridiculously common it is, and a waterfowl species or two like the black swan, cape barren goose, New Zealand shoveler, and/or Nēnē would suffice to bring Oceanian bird rep to a decent enough state (without flying birds, ofc). I would throw the brolga in there due to how common it is, but I can understand how similar it is to the red-crowned crane and I’m perfectly fine using the latter as a substitute.

As for the big two that are often brought up, while I can still live without them, I’d argue that the tree roo and the echidna are just as essential as say, an American black bear or Asian deer. Not on the level of the kiwi or kangaroo, but they’re still super common within their regions and pretty essential by the modern definition. Not to mention the boost they’d give to the exceptionally biodiverse New Guinea rather than just Aus.

That said, I don’t think Oceania as a whole could ever be considered fully “complete” due to how ecologically diverse and complex it is - it is a region made up entirely of islands after all - nor am I ever expecting it to be. What’s going to give rep to Australia (which people here sometimes seem to forget isn’t the entirety of Oceania 😅) isn’t going to give rep to Aotearoa, Hawai’i, or New Caledonia. However, I’m also not expecting every island to be fully represented, or even well represented (as much as I’d love that, it just isn’t realistic. Not to mention a lot of those species are flying birds).

In terms of what is realistic for the game though, I’m pretty content as is after Oceania gave the region a near 180, at least for Aotearoa (people also seem to forget that OCE rep was downright awful outside of Aus before this pack). Complete? Nah. In a great state, enough so for it to mostly stay on the sidelines if we only have a pack or two left? Hell yeah. Just my two cents as someone who actually builds in the region though.

TLDR: I'm super happy with Oceania's rep rn and don't consider it a priority anymore, but I also wouldn't consider it complete and its certainly worthy of a couple more additions if time allows.

However, South America is worse off right now than every other region combined and I’d sacrifice everywhere else’s rep to give it more room if this is the last pack. Even my beloved echidna.
 
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biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
Marvinb said:
Idk even regions that you could consider "complete" like Oce, Eu and NA all have alot of species that would make cool additions still. So i dont really think of them as complete, since that means there is nothing left to add.

Id rather think of them as in a nice state were you can build sizeable sections or local zoos for them
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Honestly I don’t think any regions are complete to the extent that we could actually build really good-feeling local zoos (maybe Europeans or Aussies or west coast Americans feel differently). It’s impossible for me to create an actually satisfying local zoo without the American black bear and white-tailed deer, and honestly ideally some more out of coyote, bobcat, red wolf, gray fox, elk, Virginia opossum, and NA river otter. This isn’t a problem that’s unique to the US, of course, but it’s always driven me a bit crazy to have people go “you’ve got the polar bear and Dall sheep and pronghorn and moose” when those are probably found as in as close proximity to me as various Asian species are to the non-Asian posters saying it
 

Marvinb

Marvinb
biggest_dreamer said:
Honestly I don’t think any regions are complete to the extent that we could actually build really good-feeling local zoos (maybe Europeans or Aussies or west coast Americans feel differently). It’s impossible for me to create an actually satisfying local zoo without the American black bear and white-tailed deer, and honestly ideally some more out of coyote, bobcat, red wolf, gray fox, elk, Virginia opossum, and NA river otter. This isn’t a problem that’s unique to the US, of course, but it’s always driven me a bit crazy to have people go “you’ve got the polar bear and Dall sheep and pronghorn and moose” when those are probably found as in as close proximity to me as various Asian species are to the non-Asian posters saying it
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Yeah, im currently building a local zoo and while there are quite a few animals i can use, i still have many i wish we had.
The downfall of many of these animals is that they are largely only of interest for local zoos builds of local people. On a global level noone really cares much about something like the european wildcat, chamois or coyote, i cant really be mad about it, its just the way it is. The game is called planet zoo afterall.
 
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