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Hello all,

I'm new to Eco, but I have been following the development for a while. This may be an odd question, but I am playing on a solo world and I want to test out how the ecosystem works. I want to try to cause an extinction on this throw away world and play with population dynamics, but so far as a single player I have been unable to affect any significant change in populations, like an extinction. I started with Jaguars in the wetland ecosystem and I have tried hunting them, hunting them and the snapping turtles since thats their prey, and I have tried converting large amounts of the biome to farmland with a hoe, but only minor changes in population. So my question is, what is the best way to cause an extinction besides chopping down all the old growth redwoods?

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over 2 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Animals are currently broken insofar they all behave like rabbits ( ;) ), it's one of the things we want to tackle in the next major update.

Also, I'm not sure why this post was reported as "Not respectful"?

over 2 years ago - /u/SLG-Dennis - Direct link

Originally posted by LankeNet

Maybe someone thought hunting to extinction, even in a video game, is not respectful.

That's not what the rules mean :D