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Personally, the Arctic wolf is cool beans smothered in steak sauce (my way of saying awesome sauce), and I love the dingo, too. I don't consider them reskins. I just don't like to have the main species then a specific subspecies. It's like it's repeating itself.
I don't know, maybe I'm viewing it the wrong way, and I highly doubt they'll change it. Right now the priority is the tapir and camel/bison sizes, while most of the community also wants the big cats to be redesigned, too
I understand that, I do. If the wolf had more generic scenery, then I wouldn't mind, but the fact that Frontier specifically chose a theme that's typically associated with the Americas, it isn't consistent, a stupid pet peeve of mine, since I need everything to be consistent.The overlap in morphology among temperate and taiga subspecies of the Grey Wolf is significant. IMO the worst option would have been to (fairly arbitrarily, given the fluidity of subspecies designations) assign a particular subspecies to the current model when there’s only very limited differences among Eurasian vs. North American populations. Many people complained when we got the Arctic wolf (and even the dingo) that it was a ‘reskin’ (even though it wasn’t) - I didn’t, but probably would if someone tries to sell me a temperate NA wolf and also a temperate European wolf - that would be a reskin - same model, same environmental requirements, virtually the same pattern. I don’t see how limiting the range to just a limited part of NA benefits anyone, other than people who think that common names mean a lot more than they really do.
edit: to reply to the OP.. the wolf is the same in every language - it is Canis lupus. Part of the point of scientific names is to remove / resolve the issue of species/subspecies etc. having different common names in different regions or languages.
Personally, the Arctic wolf is cool beans smothered in steak sauce (my way of saying awesome sauce), and I love the dingo, too. I don't consider them reskins. I just don't like to have the main species then a specific subspecies. It's like it's repeating itself.
I don't know, maybe I'm viewing it the wrong way, and I highly doubt they'll change it. Right now the priority is the tapir and camel/bison sizes, while most of the community also wants the big cats to be redesigned, too