We already have the summer dlc thread? If is, pls give the link
Summer DLC Speculation 2023
So now that we know what the spring DLC will be, we can start the usually early hype for next one. I am hoping for farmlands personally.
Spring dlc Speculation 2023
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Here is the summer DLC speculation thread
forums.frontier.co.uk
Summer DLC Speculation 2023
So now that we know what the spring DLC will be, we can start the usually early hype for next one. I am hoping for farmlands personally.
Thank you so muchSummer DLC Speculation 2023
So now that we know what the spring DLC will be, we can start the usually early hype for next one. I am hoping for farmlands personally.
I agree, I hope we get a rope one in a future.
Is the pig Buddha culturally insensitive?
If I was a zoo curator I would be delighted with the possibility to get animal that are less or uncommon in neighbouring zoos.
As a visitor I travel far to visit zoos with unique collections.
Translated to a really good zoo game I would argue a good roster has both common as very uncommon animals to choose from. I would call that realistic even
But I guess I might be mistaken here.
As a visitor I travel far to visit zoos with unique collections.
Translated to a really good zoo game I would argue a good roster has both common as very uncommon animals to choose from. I would call that realistic even
But I guess I might be mistaken here.
Maybe, but also way to overthemed for my liking. And Red River Pig is from Africa, so it doesn't make any sense (other than it integrating in the architectural theme)
These paragraphs sums up my feelings on the brown-throated sloth pretty well:
'Breeding programs for some threatened species have been successful. However, three-toed sloths are very difficult to maintain in captivity. They often do not survive, nor reproduce. For years, many have tried to maintain them artificially outside the Tropics, and nearly all have failed. According to Dr. Jutta Heuer, from Halle Zoo, Germany, one of the world experts in sloth husbandry in Europe, there is little to no experience with keeping, breeding and feeding three-toed sloths in captivity.
“A modern and serious zoo should never bring wild animals in without knowing this basic information. As studbook keeper for two-toed sloths in Europe I can say that because of ignorance and lack of experiences from zoos, a lot of sloths paid with their lives in the past,” says Heuer.
Recently, the Dallas World Aquarium has been able to maintain a small population of three brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) – another sloth species that is not endangered – by providing fresh Cecropia leaves to them flown in from Hawaii. But these three animals are the only ones which survived out of the nine sloths Dallas Aquarium imported from Venezuela and Costa Rica in the past 15 years. The only baby sloth born in captivity died 7 months later and had been conceived in the wild.'
Comes from this article: https://news.mongabay.com/2013/09/a...hs-sets-off-international-incident-in-panama/
Essentially, they are even worse than the proboscis monkey and platypus - at least both of those can actually breed in captivity. It just seems that barely any research has gone into choosing the sloth species, otherwise they would know what a mistake it was.
'Breeding programs for some threatened species have been successful. However, three-toed sloths are very difficult to maintain in captivity. They often do not survive, nor reproduce. For years, many have tried to maintain them artificially outside the Tropics, and nearly all have failed. According to Dr. Jutta Heuer, from Halle Zoo, Germany, one of the world experts in sloth husbandry in Europe, there is little to no experience with keeping, breeding and feeding three-toed sloths in captivity.
“A modern and serious zoo should never bring wild animals in without knowing this basic information. As studbook keeper for two-toed sloths in Europe I can say that because of ignorance and lack of experiences from zoos, a lot of sloths paid with their lives in the past,” says Heuer.
Recently, the Dallas World Aquarium has been able to maintain a small population of three brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) – another sloth species that is not endangered – by providing fresh Cecropia leaves to them flown in from Hawaii. But these three animals are the only ones which survived out of the nine sloths Dallas Aquarium imported from Venezuela and Costa Rica in the past 15 years. The only baby sloth born in captivity died 7 months later and had been conceived in the wild.'
Comes from this article: https://news.mongabay.com/2013/09/a...hs-sets-off-international-incident-in-panama/
Essentially, they are even worse than the proboscis monkey and platypus - at least both of those can actually breed in captivity. It just seems that barely any research has gone into choosing the sloth species, otherwise they would know what a mistake it was.
This is what I wanted to talk about. If the Asian water monitor can deep dive, I really hope the Nile monitor will be able to. I believe they use the same rig, so I hope they'll get it too. And oh my gosh, if the red river hogs dive and the tapirs still don't...
They said in the update post, they'll be some extra quality-of-life updates, so I hope some of these animal things are considered those! Update 1.12 had some minor features that weren't announced til launch.
I don't think there's a reason for Hogs to deep dive
Egyptian meerkats...Gothic wombats...
I don't think this is the case, though. Taking more than a cursory glance at sloth discussions in the PZ community tells you all you need to know about people's feelings toward two vs. three toed. They went with the popular depiction of sloths over the zoo-accurate one, that's all. I don't want to downplay how frustrating this decision is, but I doubt it was an uninformed one.
Well I was infuriated by the Africa pack so don't get me started ^^ It could have easily been a North African Pack (with the Addax, Dromedary, Caracal) + the Meerkat or Penguin which would have left some room for a Safari Pack later on
I don't care if they do and agree. I just want diving tapirs and was kind of annoying when the capybara got it and the tapirs weren't updated too. Capybaras are even known to dive a ton! At least not more than tapirs!
I'm going to just use it as a babirusa statue, which fits the theming.
Chester is my local zoo so it is a bit confusing yea, they also don't have Asian water monitors either... But they do have tomistoma and painted batagur which I would have preferred personally. The other three species are at Chester though!
So for me the DLC is solid, but I really enjoy anything tropical so maybe I am biased.
The Red River Hog was one most wanted animal at the moment, so I am hyped about them.
Lar Gibbon - yea, we got Siamang, but the Lar Gibbon is just the "default" gibbon species for me, so I still had them high on my wishlist.
Fossa - was on my wishlist although not particularly high, it is very welcomed to build a madagascar sections of our parks.
Asian Water Monitor - personally I am not fan of them because of how much space they need in game, but it is nice to get a reptile that is not a crocodillian.
Sloth....now this is where I got a little dissapointed for 2 reasons:
1. Wrong species, I wanted the two-toed, cute, kept in captivity ones...
2. They are in Exhibit...which I would not mind if the Exhibit itself were not so freaking BIG. I want a smaller, non-walkable version for animals like Sloth and potentionally birds...Also...no Sloth offsprings this way.
I am also sad no New World Monkey and a tropical bird such as Roseatte Spoonbill got in. I would possibly trade the monitor for at least one of those.
The Red River Hog was one most wanted animal at the moment, so I am hyped about them.
Lar Gibbon - yea, we got Siamang, but the Lar Gibbon is just the "default" gibbon species for me, so I still had them high on my wishlist.
Fossa - was on my wishlist although not particularly high, it is very welcomed to build a madagascar sections of our parks.
Asian Water Monitor - personally I am not fan of them because of how much space they need in game, but it is nice to get a reptile that is not a crocodillian.
Sloth....now this is where I got a little dissapointed for 2 reasons:
1. Wrong species, I wanted the two-toed, cute, kept in captivity ones...
2. They are in Exhibit...which I would not mind if the Exhibit itself were not so freaking BIG. I want a smaller, non-walkable version for animals like Sloth and potentionally birds...Also...no Sloth offsprings this way.
I am also sad no New World Monkey and a tropical bird such as Roseatte Spoonbill got in. I would possibly trade the monitor for at least one of those.
A second sloth would require a whole new model and most likely animations, while additional butterflies were simply a matter of making new wing textures and scaling them. They aren't remotely the same, unfortunately.