Auto-evo on alien planets

[hhyyrylainen]

I don’t think it is reasonable to assume that running auto-evo in the background to generate enough planets while the player explores can be done.

This has already been kind of talked about (but I won’t merge the threads as this is kind of different):

Another thread about Alien life

Also it’s way too impractical to try to run auto-evo on 100 planets at the same time. Other planets have to be pregenerated in some form, so that they can just be loaded from disk when needed. I’m too lazy to look for it but I’m confident I’ve said somewhere on these forums before that something like a planet pregeneration tool might be something we release and then when we have a bunch of planets generated by many people, we’ll just bundle some reasonable amount with the game. That way loading …

Generation of other planets

Inspired by the discussion on discord let’s talk about how other planets could be populated with life. So in the space stage we’ll want the player to be able to explore a lot of different planets. In order to have cool, different, life on the planets there needs to be some way for the planets to be populated without resorting to some random generation or placing random community made species on the planets. And as we aren’t planning on making Thrive only run on super computers we cannot simulat…

@Deathwake

Alternate method: DON’T GENERATE STEP BY STEP! Skip a few steps. Microbe stage has little bearing on aware. Start at late multicellular. Measure what events in cell stage cause effects in aware, make a table of all of it, and choose with RNG!

I think our goals with auto-evo will need to be considered to have failed if this is possible. This would mean that the microbial life wouldn’t be connected to bigger life and that space planets could be unrealistic where the species aren’t simulated to be actually able to survive in their environment. So yeah I think the design of auto-evo has failed if we can skip any (significant) steps in it as unnecessary.