Yeah especially someone like me who plays on a mid-level pc. I have started to only play sandbox so I don’t have to rely on guests and having 2,000+ moving entities on my computer at once. That’s not even mentioning piece count as you said above. Piece count can really restrict me, Planet Zoo isn’t perfectly optimized so the amount of pieces can catch up with me super fast. So the more good looking props I have the better.
Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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Also as a reminder, the conservation pack in fact exists and now u tell me the overlap of basic gardening tools and agricultural plants and endangerd species.
We got more or less a gardening scenery theme and an endangerd species animal theme bundled together with some random 3d print walls and banger beams and its among the best pack they have released
Well yeah. That's another reason why i don't like the Twilight pack. Christmas pieces are more useful though and the diference is that these are festivities and zoos do decorate for special ocations. A museum set feels like is part of some other Game. I would like other types of education displays that you do see in zoos so an education pack would Nice.Like a christmas or halloween theme?
Omg yesss I'd kill for it
Thats exactly the type of pieces i imagine in a museum dlc: Skull and skeleton replicas, bird wingspan siluettes, glas display cases and similar stuff. A new font set would also fit in perfectly.
Stuff you can build a musuem area with but also use to create educational display for habitats
I can only speak from an european perspective but calling many zoos a museum light really isnt that wrong though.
Many have displays similar to those of a natural science museum and many even call themself museum.
My hometown aquaria for example has an exhibition about maritine exploration and the consequences of human disturbance of the ocean, as well as multiple taxidermied or fake animals displayed alongside signs explaining concepts like natural selection, ecological overlap or just a sound display.
Zoos, botanical gardens and natural history museums have a significant overlap and it would be pretty great to have a scenery theme dedicated to both
Easy, natural history museums often try to showcase the wonders and bizarre of the natural world, you can easily do this in a PZ roster. The muskox as a vestige of the ice age, the almost prehistoric looking shoebill and secretary bird, the walrus with its great tusks, the tuatara as a last member of a once dominant group of reptiles... There's your roster done
The challenge, though, is that there aren't really any animal "headliners" for a theme like that. And that's how they've positioned things: The animals are the stars of every pack. Which makes sense.
A pack like that would be a "banger" but the way they've trained the fans to think people would call it a letdown because none of the animals are in particularly high-demand. We went through this already a little bit with the Twilight pack where people just started calling it the "roadkill" pack as far as animal choices go (I disagree, and think that pack has aged really well but I'm talking about the broader player base not myself).
Where are these pics from?
Edit: Nevermind, just found them
People will allways complain and if you ask me a goose or duck has atleast as much power to be the face of a pack as tassie, lynx, jaguar, sunbear or beaver.
Headliners are a concept the community invented without any merrit.
Its just how people try to gatekeep certain pack idears because they dont allign with their personal idear of whats popular, even if subconciously.
Everything can and cant be a headliner and we should really drop this idear as it really has no value in a discussion
The headliner animal on the cover art doesn't always translate to the best animal. Arid packs headliner was the dromedary but the porcupine was the star of the pack by a long shot.
As a extinct animal lover and a sucker for fossils/reconstructions on zoos, a museum dlc with 30 extinct animals fossils would be a dream coming true and definitivelly better than another african pack.
Sustainability supports conservation by reducing pressure on wild animals. Thats it.
I will happily buy a pack which only contains waterfowl, as happy as I am with the mute swan I want my duck!
I really wish we get an “Environmental Pack” a pack that focuses on the environment, not just endangered species, but the environment in general and how grateful we should be that we get to live with these amazing species across the world.
It could be a regular scenery pack with 5 animals and 200 scenery pieces that have lots of iconic foliage like:
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Also coming with new scenery for educating the public on the environment like fossils, more insect related stuff, and statues:
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As for the animals I’ve chosen species that are all of great importance to their environments, key species.
Golden Lion Tamarin
A small cute species but an important one at that; the golden tamarin is responsible for spreading seeds across the rainforest so that it’s environment will continue to grow and thrive.
Goodfellows Tree Kangaroo
Tree kangaroos are crucial for their environment, storing carbon to mitigate climate change as well as spreading seeds and fertilizers to continue the growth of the forest.
Sea Otter
The protectors of the kelp, Sea Otters maintain the stability of the kelp forests by eliminating their main predator, sea urchins.
Tibetan Antelope
These antelope are important to Asia for their services to the vegetation, controlling the growth by eating of course! They also spread the seeds they collect to make sure the vegetation is in a stable position.
Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds in most of their locations are considered the main pollinators, collecting pollen from flower flower. These species will act as Walkthrough Exhibit animals in your zoos.
That’s my take on this whole “museum theme can’t have animals with it” that’s all I got lol
It could be a regular scenery pack with 5 animals and 200 scenery pieces that have lots of iconic foliage like:
Also coming with new scenery for educating the public on the environment like fossils, more insect related stuff, and statues:
As for the animals I’ve chosen species that are all of great importance to their environments, key species.
Golden Lion Tamarin
A small cute species but an important one at that; the golden tamarin is responsible for spreading seeds across the rainforest so that it’s environment will continue to grow and thrive.
Goodfellows Tree Kangaroo
Tree kangaroos are crucial for their environment, storing carbon to mitigate climate change as well as spreading seeds and fertilizers to continue the growth of the forest.
Sea Otter
Tibetan Antelope
These antelope are important to Asia for their services to the vegetation, controlling the growth by eating of course! They also spread the seeds they collect to make sure the vegetation is in a stable position.
Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds in most of their locations are considered the main pollinators, collecting pollen from flower flower. These species will act as Walkthrough Exhibit animals in your zoos.
That’s my take on this whole “museum theme can’t have animals with it” that’s all I got lol
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what the hell, it got rid of half my post damn it. Well my animal roster was Tibetan antelope, tree roo, tamarin, hummingbirds and sea otter acting as key species to the environment. I’ll fix it within the next bit.
What would the snubnose say if it saw you suggesting another not in captivity asian antelopeI really wish we get an “Environmental Pack” a pack that focuses on the environment, not just endangered species, but the environment in general and how grateful we should be that we get to live with these amazing species across the world.
It could be a regular scenery pack with 5 animals and 200 scenery pieces that have lots of iconic foliage like:
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Also coming with new scenery for educating the public on the environment like fossils, more insect related stuff, and statues:
If we get another Asian antelope and its another cold-climate one not kept anywhere I think I'll start believing Frontier just hates the blackbuck. (and yes I know there is one zoo in Kazakhstan that keeps saiga but that really makes 0 difference)