I was referring in the conservation part of species that are not domesticated, but I get your point and you are right.
Spring dlc Speculation 2023
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I never said they were exhibit animals
As long as they have a tree house to retreat to in cold weather and spend 100% in the trees they can be habitat animals
The only issue I'd say I have with petting zoos in real-life in zoos is that I think there should be staff supervision over the walk-through enclosures.
Since these species are domesticated, they can't and shouldn't be released into the wild. Their best life will be in captivity, so I don't think there's an anti-conversation message if they are included in the game. It's just a matter of how they are executed in the game. I am sure they will still have ethical requirements. And since you can release Bactrian camels and llamas, which are domesticated, I don't think this is something Frontier cares about that.
Since these species are domesticated, they can't and shouldn't be released into the wild. Their best life will be in captivity, so I don't think there's an anti-conversation message if they are included in the game. It's just a matter of how they are executed in the game. I am sure they will still have ethical requirements. And since you can release Bactrian camels and llamas, which are domesticated, I don't think this is something Frontier cares about that.
I had some ideas at one point of how this should be improved. Imma state my ideas again:
In real-life, domestic animals aren't released. Albino/leucistic animals aren't released either (I'm not sure about other colormorphs). So, how should the animals trading/releasing system be fixed? The following points (and feel free to share y'all's feedback on these):
- Colormorphs shouldn't be released into the wild at all
- On top of this, colormorphs should be more popular than standard and draw in crowds
- Domestic animals shouldn't be released into the wild as they're domestic
- Baby animals should be allowed to be traded. Zoos do this in real-life, so it'd make sense for it to be possible in-game
On another subject, how do y'all feel about famous animals? For example, maybe we can have a reputation system in the game where some animals can get more and more famous, drawing in more crowds...
I hear one way to make giant pandas and polar bears even more popular. Even the likes of some animals especially baby animals and great apes could be the stars of the zoo instead of just another animal whose name means little to nothing
This is definitely something I wish would be added to the game! I mostly play Franchise, and these would definitely add make the experience more realistic and strategic. So Frontier, include this in Update 1.14 or I'll be sad (assuming 1.13 is already finished).
Stuff like this is honestly what I want more in the free updates. I know a lot of this would be useless to sandbox though.
Because it got caught in the domestic poll deletion somehow...
One of my big reasons for wanting domestics is story based. I like playing and replaying career mode. I also like making fake challenges and storylines to complete. It makes the game more gamey to me.
Since domestics and farming are linked to many unique conservation challenges today, having them would open up a ton of new story possibilities for me. I'm currently fakinga few with Dallas sheep and llamas, but it's not the same, especially when I want to tell stories like "domestic goat outcompeting native goat and how can farmers and wildlife both be happy?"
Even though I dislike the timed scenarios, the terrace map from the SEA pack is one of my favorites for this kind of story telling based play.
One of my big reasons for wanting domestics is story based. I like playing and replaying career mode. I also like making fake challenges and storylines to complete. It makes the game more gamey to me.
Since domestics and farming are linked to many unique conservation challenges today, having them would open up a ton of new story possibilities for me. I'm currently fakinga few with Dallas sheep and llamas, but it's not the same, especially when I want to tell stories like "domestic goat outcompeting native goat and how can farmers and wildlife both be happy?"
Even though I dislike the timed scenarios, the terrace map from the SEA pack is one of my favorites for this kind of story telling based play.
Ok, the Wetlands pack was released the 12 april, but the SEAA was released the 30 March, so maybe we could hope for an early date ?
Islands pack just to spite everyone
The most common ones I personally see are bird, island, mountain/highland, and some form of forest dlc. Out of those probably mountain but it heavily depends on the roster. Especially since that one seems the most prone to people shoving any animal that could possibly fit.
Same for me. A mountain pack would be the one i would look towards to the least.
Mainly because a lot of the likely animals for such a pack like takins, markhor and andean bears arent that high on my personal wishlist at all.
This might be an unpopular opinion but I think having a DLC where we get like 50 new exhibit box animals would really be great, these have gotten left behind and we really should have way more than we have currently. Maybe distribute it like this?
- 10 Lizards
- 10 Snakes
- 5 Turtles
- 7 Frogs
- 3 Salamanders
- 10 Invertebrates
- 5 Small Mammals
I'd lose my mind over something like this
That would be a decent way of introducing more exhibit size options as well as more customization options for exhibits. Just have a giant pack of animals to experiment with. Probably won't happen though unfortunately.
Taiga/tundra/boreal/whatever you want to call it. It's not the most popular, but it's still brought up often enough. The most commonly discussed species (muskox, wolverine, walrus, etc) just do nothing for me. Thankfully, I seriously can't picture that as our spring pack given how much better of a fit it would've been for winter. I also wouldn't be too thrilled by a general temperate forests pack at this point. Conversely, I'm totally fine with the somewhat more popular mountain/highlands theme that is sometimes discussed in the same breath as these.
Alternatively, I don't want any more scenery packs, ever.
I'm fine with all of the other most common themes I see discussed - tropical, islands, desets/drylands, petting/children's zoo/domestics, the previously mentioned mountain/highlands, bird explosion.
The pattern IIRC was always 5 days before Easter
Here's a dedicated thread for discussing domestics in general:
forums.frontier.co.uk
Everything petting zoo/farm/domestic animals pack
Considering how much this is discussed I thought a main thread would fit. Do you want a pack made out of domestic animals? What would you wsnt to theme it? What animals would you want in it?
I hope you don't mind me choosing the species:
Lizards
- Thorny devil
- Frilled lizard
- Tuatara - I know it's not a lizard, but I had to add it
- Panther chameleon
- Jackson's chameleon
- Madagascar day gecko
- Crested gecko
- Leopard gecko
- Plumed basilisk lizard
- Chinese water dragon
- King cobra
- Copperhead
- Cottonmouth
- Inland taipan
- Green anaconda
- Emerald tree boa
- Reticulated python
- Coral snake
- Black mamba
- Red spitting cobra
- Alligator snapping turtle
- Red-eared slider
- Box turtle
- Razorback musk turtle
- Indian star tortoise
- Blue poison frog
- Bumblebee poison frog
- Argentine horned frog
- Tomato frog
- Fire-bellied toad
- Dumpy tree frog
- Indian purple frog
- Japanese giant salamander
- Marbled newt
- Tiger salamander
- Chinese praying mantis
- Madagascar hissing cockroach
- Lord Howe stick insect
- Jungle nymph
- Giant prickly stick insect
- Atlas moth
- Luna moth
- Hummingbird hawk moth
- Tiger moth
- African moon moth
- Indian flying fox
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Mexican free tailed bat
- Naked mole rat
- Silvery mole rat