Ok so I know new animals are often a huge incentive for people to buy DLC maps but I know turkeys and pheasants got added to the two base maps so I'm wondering what the cutoff is, especially with how much can be done to fill certain maps or some maps that have 1 or 2 glaring omissions
#For backfilling maps, what should be the cutoff?
daring palm
narrow sun
Ik part of the cutoff (at least I think the devs stated this at one point) is that a map technically should have at least one star species that isn’t found on other maps. Layton has blacktail and Rosevelt elk, Medved has reindeer and musk deer, Rancho has the antelope jackrabbit, Rio Grande Turkey, and now technically the desert bighorn, Parque Fernando has the cinnamon teal Ect. Etc
daring palm
That works
high niche
There isn’t really a cutoff but its mostly what can be transferred without harming the vibe of the map.
Biggest example of this is would be the tahr which were an exclusive great one and a huge selling point for that map but even so they still back filled it to another map because that map would be enhanced more than the other would be hurt.
Also yeah every map has at least 1 exclusive animal but in some cases it as weak as a second subspecies of bobcat so the line is very weak.
harsh abyss
Also, the animal populations are made in such a way that when a backfill happens, they have to "make room" by removing animals from the populations. Say there's 500 Whitetail, and you want to add Turkeys, well now there are 450 Whitetail. This has the unintended consequence of making missions harder and such (if you do them, that is). The bigger the backfill, the more animals get removed from the current populations.