Probably Frontier does this on a regular basis but I thought of doing this myself so we all get an impression of what animals people want entirely based on this very useful thread by Jeminyne.
If the current 4 habitat animals model continues and we have 2 more years of PZ content (could be a bit more or a bit less) we would end up with only 24 more animals (2 years x 3 DLCs/year x 4 animals/DLC). 24 habitat animals and we would be done.
To support my point, I'll use this ‘Meta-list’ when 24 people had posted a list of animals, from which many of them are active and ‘veteran’ forum users. 24 is a minority, I know, but this sampling size could be somewhat representative. Only one person who replied in this thread posted less than 30 animals. On the other hand, a number of people who posted stated that they had a hard time just choosing 30 animals.
Looking at that meta-wishlist, you can reach your own conclusions.
Mine are that there are 176 animals which are considered absolutely essential by at least one person who posted in the thread. If we extrapolate to all the PZ players, each of these 176 animals would be listed by more people for sure. Even new ‘essential’ animals could show up in the list. And this is all based on the assumption that we won't get a proper birds pack with flying birds. If we do end up getting something like that, the list would grow longer.
Frontier cannot please everyone’s wishes in this regard, even with this sub-sample of the thousands of PZ players, we got 176 new animals which is just too much for Frontier alone (unless they do come up with an ‘Animalmaker’s Toolkit).
However, even if we only count the animals who have been listed at least 4 times (essential animals for 1/6 of the people who posted), those are way more than the 24 we might end up getting with the current DLC model.
And I want to insist that this was only based on one of the hundreds wishlist threads in just this forum. There are thousands of people who don't even check the forum and each of them with their own list of 30 super essential missing animals.
PS: I’m in no way demanding a bigger effort from Frontier staff. After all, they have created one of the most wonderful games I’ve come across and that will surely keep me occupied for many years. Because of this very reason, and because I just want the game to be the best zoo videogame ever (and, why not, the one with more profit) I’m just presenting data about what an important part of the community is requesting. Hopefully some adjustments could be made in order to react to this piece of feedback.
PS2: Thanks @DrAkula87 for bringing up their table format and @Jeminyne for opening the thread where data was taken from.
If the current 4 habitat animals model continues and we have 2 more years of PZ content (could be a bit more or a bit less) we would end up with only 24 more animals (2 years x 3 DLCs/year x 4 animals/DLC). 24 habitat animals and we would be done.
To support my point, I'll use this ‘Meta-list’ when 24 people had posted a list of animals, from which many of them are active and ‘veteran’ forum users. 24 is a minority, I know, but this sampling size could be somewhat representative. Only one person who replied in this thread posted less than 30 animals. On the other hand, a number of people who posted stated that they had a hard time just choosing 30 animals.
Looking at that meta-wishlist, you can reach your own conclusions.
Mine are that there are 176 animals which are considered absolutely essential by at least one person who posted in the thread. If we extrapolate to all the PZ players, each of these 176 animals would be listed by more people for sure. Even new ‘essential’ animals could show up in the list. And this is all based on the assumption that we won't get a proper birds pack with flying birds. If we do end up getting something like that, the list would grow longer.
Frontier cannot please everyone’s wishes in this regard, even with this sub-sample of the thousands of PZ players, we got 176 new animals which is just too much for Frontier alone (unless they do come up with an ‘Animalmaker’s Toolkit).
However, even if we only count the animals who have been listed at least 4 times (essential animals for 1/6 of the people who posted), those are way more than the 24 we might end up getting with the current DLC model.
And I want to insist that this was only based on one of the hundreds wishlist threads in just this forum. There are thousands of people who don't even check the forum and each of them with their own list of 30 super essential missing animals.
PS: I’m in no way demanding a bigger effort from Frontier staff. After all, they have created one of the most wonderful games I’ve come across and that will surely keep me occupied for many years. Because of this very reason, and because I just want the game to be the best zoo videogame ever (and, why not, the one with more profit) I’m just presenting data about what an important part of the community is requesting. Hopefully some adjustments could be made in order to react to this piece of feedback.
PS2: Thanks @DrAkula87 for bringing up their table format and @Jeminyne for opening the thread where data was taken from.
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. Of course they can't please everyone with this huge amount of animals, but the optimistic part of me think we will see an eventual dev kit to let the community add the forgotten animals, i hope 
. Surely they won't be high Dlc quality but i'm totally fine with it. The pessimistic, instead, think we will get this 24 more animals and stop, end of the line, thanks for playing. Honestly this would be a nightmare.
. Is it the Amur? Persian? Sri Lankan? Indian? Indochinese? South Chinese? North Chinese? Javan? 
But oh well, already did it so here ya go.)