These reserves and their wardens seem like they have the people and equipment to know how is the population of their respective reserves, and anytime we harvest what we hunt down, we get paid for it or even when doing their missions, they know and "see" (sometimes) what we do, so resources for them are not a problem, so Why dont we pay to borrow them, or at least ask for help?
The game may benefit from having a feature where you pay (a lot maybe) for having the reserve wardens and workers to analyse the animal population, and let you know if there are high difficulty ones (or the presence of great ones even), some fur types, or Suggest areas to look for any need zone (to increase the incentive or help complete).
The game may not only ask for in-game currency, but also to go setup cams or sensor, hunt some specific or random animals in order to "make more effective and quick the animal population scanning because that make them move more", and also to let pass real-life time for the result to be ready and for cool-down.
I think this game feature/mechanic will help more casual or immersive players to feel the reserve and the wardens to be more present, and also for grinders to feel a bit more refreshing the small hint that a Great one is near or already present in the reserve, because having more information or feedback that what we do is bearing its fruits can be as rewarding as finding and harvesting that fruit we dedicated so much effort to make it happen .
#Pay Wardens to analyse reserve population to look into higher trophies/fur types/missing needzones.
worn trellis
soft dock
This could be helpful to analyze any areas that may have a rare you have been missing and overlooking. It could say something like i seen an odd looking deer in the northern part of the reserve so you could go hunt it.
I agree this Mechanic could work well with trail cams if they ever come and the interaction with the warden to help narrow the area down would be great.
They could say something like go setup up the cam between 7 to 10 to see if you can catch a glimpse of the odd looking deer.
manic phoenix
This could be fun and it would really be a hit for more casual players it could take a few in-game days as well
small pebble
I'll admit I always loved the idea of Wardens in the narratives say "we have too many___in this area can you help out?" This to me is more ideal than culling every breathing thing. I would enjoy having continuous side job/tasks to contract on to manage overall populations.
Overtime you gain affinty (or rather trust) with whom your working for from the Npc(s) your working with to get a hint where something or an animal has been seen. Ofc from there a player would need to travel to that unit and search for tracks and if your committed to doing so track & stalk the animal. In Solo the Warden informs you of tracks anyway so I feel this would add more interactions and gameplay. Now dont miss understand what I'm suggesting isnt a guarantee you will get a G1 but it has an rng chance to be diamond, rare fur, or a G1 you dont know. I'm already fully aware ea. Players world isn't the same due to the RNG system so I love the posts concept &/or what I proposed above to add more to the gameplay over the current options in-game.