Posted By Personman00 at 05:45 AM - Fri May 05 2017
Hopefully they at least decide to go with subspecies. IF you've seen the Ursaphant it's extremely hairy. With that in mind there could also be a significantly less hairy smaller variant in say the semi-arid or savanna areas. Thereby reducing the chance of total extinction. It also has the side effect of keeping them as resources around, but only more expensive...
I'm hoping that the animals in the game will have a somewhat high degree of intelligence to make things a little more interesting when it comes to over hunting.
For example, if Domino Foxes were being over hunted, a group of them may migrate to a different biome, where they can possibly be an invasive species.
And concerning true monsters(daemons,serpentaurs,krakens, etc...), I believe they should age much slower than average creatures, due to them being supernatural in nature. I also think that monster extinction won't be much of a problem,since they may be extremely hard to kill, so the only time you would actually need to kill one, it would be because it's causing a major problem for farmers, merchant, etc..