What regional packs could we expect?

Fallax

Fallax
With the announcement of the Oceania Pack, we have the surprising but welcome return of regional packs for the first time since 2021. The question remains, what regions could we expect packs out of? I'm going to seperate this into two parts "Greater Continent Packs" (packs that cover areas from across a continent like Oceania) and "Subregion Packs" (packs that would only cover a specific region).

"Greater Continent Packs":
  • Latin America is of course the place everyone is looking to right now, South America is desperate for more animals and a "Latin America" pack could also incorporate Central America and the Caribbean which shares similar fauna.
  • Greater Asia/Eurasia was an idea thrown about a ton a year or so ago, could it still potentially happen? There is still plenty to go around from Temperate Europe, Himalayas, Middle East to pull from plus any other random Asian species.
"Subregion Packs":
  • An Amazon pack has been requested by many, as another way to beef up South American representation. Central America, Patagonia, Andes, and Pampas are also options but probably less likely.
  • For North America, people don't really want any more packs but I think there is potential for a "Wild West" pack, the deserts of Southwest North America are still missing some essential animals.
  • An India/South Asia pack has been desirable for many as there is a lot of species lacking still, I think outside of Latin America this is the most likely pack we could recieve. Other options for Asia would be a Middle East or a Himalayan pack potentially (though I think the latter could easily be combined with India/South Asia).
  • Mediterranean pack is an oddball but this could bring a nice building set as well as animals from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East all at once.
What does everyone think? Which regional packs do you think could still happen?
 

Existentialist Knight

Existentialist Knight
Knowing Frontier, anything seems possible.
Personally, I think an Amazon or South/Central America pack is likely. If we look at the Oceania and Arid pack, they focused on two regions that had a severe lack of representation about which the Forum had often complained. It seems that the Community Managers registered our complaints, and Frontier attempted to rectify them with the last two packs.
Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but after the currently announced pack I am allowing myself to be a little optimistic.

What might also work is a greater Asia pack with animals from the Himalayas, India and possibly even China and Japan. Something like Markhor, Takin/Yak, Golden pheasant/Himalayan monal, Pallas cat, Tanuki, Blackbuck, lion-tailed macaque/Gray langur
I know that Asia is considered to have the second best representation after Africa, and the necessity of this pack could be questioned. I still believe that I would be a great opportunity to fill in some holes in the roster, and provide Asia with much needed ungulates and primates.
 

Marvinb

Marvinb
Existentialist Knight said:
I know that Asia is considered to have the second best representation after Africa, and the necessity of this pack could be questioned. I still believe that I would be a great opportunity to fill in some holes in the roster, and provide Asia with much needed ungulates and primates.
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South east asia is really the only part of asia that is well represented, the rest is not terrible, but not that great either. Himalaya and india mainly, as you said but the far east could also use a couple more animals like muntjacs and serows.
The weird part of greater asia is that we really only have the main star or big ticket animals, tigers, elephants, pandas, snow leopards and so one. But the non star or filler animals to actually build a nice area or section in a zoo are pretty much missing completely.
 

Birini

B
I don’t think people are going to like this theory but I suspect none. This feels like “it” to me. A way to get the kiwi and Tasmanian Devil in game. 1.16 is birds. Then, “Welcome to PlanCo 2!”
 

Calleo

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I don't think this is the return of 'region'- based packs at all. I think we're at a stage of the game's life now where the DLCs are built around wanted species, not the other way around like when they did continental packs between Arctic and Europe and chose animals that would fit those themes.

Since Europe we've received packs based on a habitat environment (wetlands), population statuses (conservation), sleeping habits (twilight), another habitat type (grasslands), a biome (tropical), another biome (arid) and a continent (Oceania).
And basically we got these packs because they wanted to include certain popular wishlist species and then moulded the packs around that by adding some other filler species.
We got wetlands because people wanted the capybara, the ASCO, more wading birds and the platypus.
We got conservation because people wanted the Przewalski's wild horse, a leopard and gibbons.
We got twilight because people wanted the wombat, raccoon, more foxes and they wanted to add Halloween things.
We got grasslands because people wanted the maned Wolf, an armadillo and the emu.
We got tropical because people wanted the RRH and sloths.
We got arid because people wanted the porcupine, the dromedary and the black rhino.
We got Oceania because people wanted the Tasmanian Devil and the Kiwi.

So I think it's best to look at it more as what wishlisted animals can they build around next and what would be the pack you could easily build around that to add some other, lower down in the wishlist, filler species.

The obvious one is the wolverine and the musk ox - some sort of tundra pack?

The Spectacled Bear, the rhea and the Mara? That's some sort of patagonia pack.

The ocelot, ring-tailed coati, more new world monkeys and the southern tamandua? That's some sort of Amazonian pack.

The Aye-aye and the black and white colobus? Tropical Africa?

Serval, sulcatta tortoise, gelada/hamadryas baboon? African savannah?

Pallas' cat, markhor? Central Asia?

Tree Kangaroo, Tanuki, Aye-Aye? Islands?



To think we're back into 'regional packs' is unlikely to me. They're filling out the roster now. Packs will be built around that, they have been for years.
 

SuzieSky

SuzieSky
I would say Central America and South Asia are in most desperate need, but there are a few options if support goes on.
  • Central America would be a good scenery pack to get a better Latin America set. For animals, the Geoffroy's spider monkey, northern tamandua, ocelot or margay, white nosed coati (though I strongly prefer the South American to add a warm brown arboreal), collared peccary, scarlet ibis, and roseate spoonbill seem like popular and good options
  • South Asia already has scenery but could easily fill an animal pack. The most essentials are the markhor, honey badger, blackbuck, and a monkey. Other options include a nilgai, guar, fishing cat, sloth bear, a bird, and a deer (chital, sambar, and muntjacs have been discussed).
  • Safari could add a fun scenery or animal pack focused on African species. Baboons, servals, birds, reptiles, other monkeys, and ungulates seem like possible additions animal-wise.
  • East Asia already has scenery, but it could use an animal pack to give it a monkey, ornamental birds, raccoon dog, ungulates, and a reptile.
  • An Amazon animal pack would be cool, but I have a feeling its going to be rainforest, jungle, or an arboreal pack.
  • Himalayas is possible, but not quite as interesting to me.
 

MarikMoon

MarikMoon
Amazon by far, South America fauna still very poor in PZ and with this pack we could get a lot of intereseting animals, specially New World Monkeys and possibly flying birds
  1. Howler monkey
  2. Spider monkey
  3. Ocelot
  4. Coati
  5. Southern tamandua
  6. Bush dog
  7. Green anaconda
  8. Macaws (3 species for WE)
 

Eletan888

Eletan888
Now that Frontier is doing region-based packs. I think that in spring 2024, we will get a pack that covers Latin America in some form. These packs are assuming we'll get the spectacled bear in the suspected Highlands Animal Pack. You could shuffle some of these species around between the two packs, I just did it in a way that would display every species I think is possible.

Central America Pack:
1. Geoffery's Spider Monkey
2. White-Nosed Coati
3. Caribbean Flamingo
4. Collard Peccary
5. Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth (WE)

Latin America Animal Pack:
1. Black Howler Monkey
2. Ocelot
3. Greater Rhea
4. Golden Lion Tamarin
5. Patagonian Mara
6. Chocoan Peccary
7. South American Coati
8. Linne's Two-Toed Sloth (WE)
 

Britches

Britches
Calleo said:
I don't think this is the return of 'region'- based packs at all. I think we're at a stage of the game's life now where the DLCs are built around wanted species, not the other way around like when they did continental packs between Arctic and Europe and chose animals that would fit those themes.

Since Europe we've received packs based on a habitat environment (wetlands), population statuses (conservation), sleeping habits (twilight), another habitat type (grasslands), a biome (tropical), another biome (arid) and a continent (Oceania).
And basically we got these packs because they wanted to include certain popular wishlist species and then moulded the packs around that by adding some other filler species.
We got wetlands because people wanted the capybara, the ASCO, more wading birds and the platypus.
We got conservation because people wanted the Przewalski's wild horse, a leopard and gibbons.
We got twilight because people wanted the wombat, raccoon, more foxes and they wanted to add Halloween things.
We got grasslands because people wanted the maned Wolf, an armadillo and the emu.
We got tropical because people wanted the RRH and sloths.
We got arid because people wanted the porcupine, the dromedary and the black rhino.
We got Oceania because people wanted the Tasmanian Devil and the Kiwi.

So I think it's best to look at it more as what wishlisted animals can they build around next and what would be the pack you could easily build around that to add some other, lower down in the wishlist, filler species.

The obvious one is the wolverine and the musk ox - some sort of tundra pack?

The Spectacled Bear, the rhea and the Mara? That's some sort of patagonia pack.

The ocelot, ring-tailed coati, more new world monkeys and the southern tamandua? That's some sort of Amazonian pack.

The Aye-aye and the black and white colobus? Tropical Africa?

Serval, sulcatta tortoise, gelada/hamadryas baboon? African savannah?

Pallas' cat, markhor? Central Asia?

Tree Kangaroo, Tanuki, Aye-Aye? Islands?



To think we're back into 'regional packs' is unlikely to me. They're filling out the roster now. Packs will be built around that, they have been for years.
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If that's the case, I wonder why they always put some crazy animal within these packs instead of filling them up with wanted animals... I mean, where are all the people that wished for the Dama Gazelle or the Nile Lechwe?
 

Captain Callum

Captain Callum
Britches said:
If that's the case, I wonder why they always put some crazy animal within these packs instead of filling them up with wanted animals... I mean, where are all the people that wished for the Dama Gazelle or the Nile Lechwe?
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Quoting myself from another thread since its rather relevant to this

Captain Callum said:
the pattern of including highly requested animals along with lesser known/voted animals allows for each dlc to be unique, unpredictable and fresh. Adding all these popular animals in one such pack then leaves hundreds of animals like dama gazelle and otherwise "boring" animals to somehow appeal to the average planet zoo player.
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Colehunter35

Colehunter35
Birini said:
I don’t think people are going to like this theory but I suspect none. This feels like “it” to me. A way to get the kiwi and Tasmanian Devil in game. 1.16 is birds. Then, “Welcome to PlanCo 2!”
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i hope it isn't but that kinda seems plausible
i honestly wouldn't mind it as long as afterwards we got the toolkit (similar to PC) to be able to make the remaining animals or new pieces
 
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CharlieXGaming

CharlieXGaming
I think the only region we need is the Amazon. Don’t really care if it’s an animal pack or scenery pack, we could potentially get Latin America scenery. Honestly if the last 2 packs are Highlands Animal pack (covering pallas cat, spec bear, Wolverine, Baboon) and Amazon (ocelot, spider monkey, tamandua, ibis) I would be good, I would be sad if we didn’t get more African animals like Secretary Bird or Barbary sheep, but I won’t die without them.
 

JW97

JW97
So coming from an Australia pack to an Oceania Pack, the next logical step would be having a Latin America pack, and it would probably be a scenery pack.
The only other option in my eyes could be a Eurasian pack, which could both be a scenery or animal pack.
My picks would be:
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Fallax

Fallax
If we get another pack in South America I hope it is an animal pack and I also hope it isn't restricted to the Amazon and personally I don't see why it would need to be.
 

Marvinb

Marvinb
Mayki said:
If we get another pack in South America I hope it is an animal pack and I also hope it isn't restricted to the Amazon and personally I don't see why it would need to be.
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Well you have the Problem with naming it. Amazon Packs seems perfectly fine, but to include stuff like the spec bear and mara youd have to expand to the whole continent. But what are you gonna call it? South america 2?
 
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