Disappointed in Animal Pack Already

[Miri]

*tounge in cheek*

So very disappointed that geese are not on the list of animals and thus lacking in the silly event where you geese start laying Rich Metal eggs.

 

[Chronofrost]

There is a chance there are new special event chains. Maybe that is one of them

 

[Walshicus]

I'm sad I won't get a martian turtle farm.

 

[UncleGamer]

Got to say this was not something I expected. I watched the stream and it feels like a goof-off type DLC. To me this game has always had a serious bend with light humor IO enjoyed. The animal pack is just to goofy for me and will be not added to my game.

 

[Falrinn]

Got to say this was not something I expected. I watched the stream and it feels like a goof-off type DLC. To me this game has always had a serious bend with light humor IO enjoyed. The animal pack is just to goofy for me and will be not added to my game.

Not sure how you could get that impression. Bringing animals to mars, both as pets and livestock, is not unbelievable for the timescales Surviving Mars covers. They wouldn't be on the first rocket certainly, but they'd definitely be there by the time global terraforming was making any serious progress.

 

[UncleGamer]

Not sure how you could get that impression. Bringing animals to mars, both as pets and livestock, is not unbelievable for the timescales Surviving Mars covers. They wouldn't be on the first rocket certainly, but they'd definitely be there by the time global terraforming was making any serious progress.

It's not the bring as much as the way it was presented. Talking about Vegans getting mad if animals are used as food and so on. Animals would make sense, especially for food production once terraforming took.

 

[Falrinn]

It's not the bring as much as the way it was presented. Talking about Vegans getting mad if animals are used as food and so on. Animals would make sense, especially for food production once terraforming took.

That was an aside mention on how livestock would interact with colonists with the already-existing vegan quirk. In terms of gameplay we are actually getting, the animal pack is more about expanding how your colony produces food as well as allowing colonists to have pets in well-developed colonies.

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

They wouldn't be on the first rocket certainly,

Unless you are playing "Church of the New Ark" without Space Race Ark Pods?

 

[Eklabiaan]

*tounge in cheek*

So very disappointed that geese are not on the list of animals and thus lacking in the silly event where you geese start laying Rich Metal eggs.

Or they would give an early warning against an attack by the Esocorp rovers (Marsgate). Like they did in Rome 395 BC

 

[RageOfAnubis]

I am expecting an event where the cat people and the dog people try to make you choose between which of the two is the better pet. I am assuming playing as the Paradox sponsor will allow you to declare the platypus the superior pet.

On a more serious note I wonder if different animals will offer different benefits in more than just resource consumption vs. output. For example the venom of the male platypus causes pain that is resistant to modern painkillers, making it of interest to medical researchers, so maybe having platypus pets will slightly boost the output of researchers or medics

 

[Ivashanko]

Not sure how you could get that impression. Bringing animals to mars, both as pets and livestock, is not unbelievable for the timescales Surviving Mars covers. They wouldn't be on the first rocket certainly, but they'd definitely be there by the time global terraforming was making any serious progress.

Within our lifetime we will likely have readily available, not too expensive, completely safe lab grown meat. I seriously doubt that livestock will be transported to Mars with that sort of tech avaliable.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

livestock maybe not, but most people don't care about dead animals ('specially tasty ones), so "test" stock I could certainly see being shipped.

 

[RageOfAnubis]

Food isn't the sole use for livestock, these is leather and wool which would be useful in the creation of clothing and furniture, adhesives from connective tissue, fertiliser from dung, offal and bone, bone can be used as a replacement for wood in the crafting of many items. While on Earth we have synthetic replacements for many of these items, the process is arguably to energy and resource intensive to be viable on Mars. Besides which I am not sure the requisite chemicals could be easily synthesised on Mars.

In light of the terraforming expansion animals become even more useful, methane is an excellent greenhouse gas, so it's likely going to be useful for helping to raise the average temperature (plus if the cows and whatnot are kept in an environmentally closed area the methane could be harvested for use as a clean burning fuel). The dung would be useful for improving soil quality. The grazers can serve to keep the vegetation near the domes from getting too out of hand. Chickens will keep the insects brought over to serve as pollinators under control as well as any pests that manage to evade detection and survive the trip to Mars. seed dispersal.

 

[Eklabiaan]

And animals will also influence the health and comfort of the colonists. A dog is a mans best friend (+ 5 comfort). And things like mad-cow desease might pop up from events...wil the virus jump over to humans....