I can understand that take, it would look visually unique as well. If we were to get a third that would be a good option.
Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
- Thread starter The Carcharodontogenius
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Im actually of the opposite opinion, we got so many giant crocodilian that if we get any more it really has to be the slender snouted croc imo. Something medium sized, which is kinda missing atm.
Aside from somethign for africa, i think were good on crocs and they focus should shift to others reptiles
Slender snouted croc, Nile, I would even take a tomistoma, it’s at my local zoo and they are so cool.
So my prediction for Spring:
Temperate pack:
Mix of Wood cabin, camping and indigenous scenery
-NA black bear: NA missing icon, obligatory clone of the pack
-NA porcupine: Common NA for the rest of the world
-Mandarin duck/ golden pheasant: Bird slot to provide some of the most common and imo most painfully missing zoo animals
-Reeves muntjac: Asian deer, smallish and required ungulate of the pack
-Tuatara: What should have been in the OCE pack, NZs missing icon
Id really prefer the yellow throated marten over the porcupine, but it would feel wrong to have an NA scenery pack with only one NA animal.
Temperate pack:
Mix of Wood cabin, camping and indigenous scenery
-NA black bear: NA missing icon, obligatory clone of the pack
-NA porcupine: Common NA for the rest of the world
-Mandarin duck/ golden pheasant: Bird slot to provide some of the most common and imo most painfully missing zoo animals
-Reeves muntjac: Asian deer, smallish and required ungulate of the pack
-Tuatara: What should have been in the OCE pack, NZs missing icon
Id really prefer the yellow throated marten over the porcupine, but it would feel wrong to have an NA scenery pack with only one NA animal.
I would appreciate that amount of variety, although that many otters seems a little bit unnecessary for me personally.
I think this is the only time you can make a PZ meme referencing Africa not having good representation and it actually works lmao.
Nile Crocodile feels left out.
I don’t personally care about African crocodilians, I have 3 African needs. Gelada, Barbary Sheep, Tortoise. Those 3 and I’ll never complain about Africa again.
Actually I’m quoting my own post because I saw the Leaf video of someone using a monkey rig for parrots. It doesn’t look perfect, but it really makes me wonder if “climbing” and “jumping” could be the gateway to get flying birds into Planet Zoo. I’ve never programmed or modded a day in my life, but over New Years weekend I have been thinking about this post I made a lot.
Even large birds of prey like eagles and vultures will spend a lot of time on the ground, using this method even certain crane or stork species could be added into the game. I don’t think small flying birds could use this method though.
Also with another year upon us what do you guys think are the three most likely things to happen to a planet zoo?
Here are my three:
- We get a South America animal pack
- We get at least one other bird species, may not be a unique rig or bird though
- Planet Zoo comes to console later this year
Tomistoma also known as the false gharial is a southeast asian crocodilian that looks similar to the indian gharial. Picture shows the gharial on the left, false gharial on the right.
African forest elephant is so niche that it’s hard to justify but overall I like this lineup. Brown bears and wolves could also use a bit of expansion, but I think in both of their cases it’s simply a matter of “add the European/Eurasian one and call it a day”, perhaps losing the HBB in the process.
Well, that and Monkeys. At least we have one monkey though.
Not having the Nile Crocodile four years in is baffling in a way, but it also hasn't really coincided with that many themes. Africa pack, sure, but I'm so glad we got all of the roster there we did. Could have replaced the Spectacled Caiman in the Wetlands pack, but I think that's now the preferred Caiman? Still may have been the best option. Arid pack wouldn't really be a good fit for it. Honestly I'm still surprised it wasn't in the base game.
I think..it's actually the point we have zero crocadilians for Africa, when there's an iconic and well known species that would take little effort to add.
exactly and people are still mad at me when I say I dont want more ungulates when this is what the diversity looks like.
I would say the masai girafee and another zebra species would be ust as visually distinct from each other
The fact that somewhere in your mind you can justify another zebra and not a flamingo is ridiculous because unless its the lesser flamingo which is still fairly visually distinct another flamingo would represent a whole new continent and range that currently has no birds at all let alone a flamingo.
another giraffe, zebra, peafowl and kangaroo all fall into the category of just providing more options to players they all look very similar and share territory and climatic range what they offer however is the option to include more diversity every zoo doesnt have the same species of zebra or giraffe so why should all our zoos.
The lion actually could be significantly different depending on which subset they introduce considering we dont have a tropical or asian lion representative.
Gorilla is truly pointless since almost all zoo gorillas are the subspecies we have in the game there is no major range or biome differences and its visually very similar.
they are about as visually distinct as the zebra species where unless you know what your looking for they arent that different. The biggest distinction comes from size and prevalence grey kangaroos are everywhere in australia both in zoos and in the wild.
The thing is based on the taxonomic model they used for the west african lion they cant add the Asiatic because technically they are the same subspecies now
yeah zoo tycoon xbox just took the subspecies to the extreme some of the worked well the bears for example if they added the spectacled and the panda would of been perfect.
Then you look at the jaguars which even the game recognises there is no meaningful differences. There is also the the cougars which have multiple sub populations of tropical south american cougars and none from the temperate range of the animals.
I think the elephants lions and giraffes were close to perfect with only a few redundant additions
But I need that extremely niche ungulate that I saw in a zoo once that will add so much diversity to the existing roster, [example region] will never be complete without it!