Enemy cells spawning in as an army

Null · October 8, 2021, 1:08pm

Im not really sure if this is a bug or intended feature but during most of my playtroughs of thrive it just happens that after a few generations a mega species pops up with up to 50k cells in every area, even if i havent been there yet. It would be fine in my opinion if those things stayed like they spawned in (as almost unevolved cells) but theyre species evolves with the player. Because Those things will evolve to counter the player and due to the fact that theres so many of them its really hard to not get crushed by them. The only way so far ive even gotten able to take out half of their population in one area is bc i already had a good amount of my species cells there and that my species was evolved to hunt other cells. My game eventually started just crashing on that save file after a minute or so btw

hhyyrylainen · October 8, 2021, 2:14pm

I moved this to #current-game:microbe-stage as this is not really a bug.
The AI has a huge advantage currently by actually being affected by auto-evo, whereas player species population is only affected by the player’s performance currently. We do want to fix this in the future:

github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive

Auto-Evo for player

opened 01:53AM - 17 Dec 19 UTC

TheRexYo

difficult programming gui impeded C#

I don't know if this is intended, but Auto-Evo doesn't work for the player. The …player's individual successes should have an impact, but their choices in species creation should too, because not all members of the player's species are accounted for in the current system - just the player him/herself. If needed, the minimum population to thrive could be increased to expand play-time. Auto-Evo is REALLY beneficial to a species population (just load up Free-Build and look at those numbers!) and should thus be given to the player to avoid an in-balance between them and the AI. To be honest, this may not be the best place to post this thought, but either way, thanks for reading!

As you can see the issue has been open since 2019, but as is the case with most things, we just don’t have enough programmers to tackle our massive backlog (over 310 issues) of features and bugs. And that doesn’t even count the features that are planned, but haven’t been made into concrete work items yet.

thim · October 11, 2021, 12:13pm

Do you still have that save file? There’s a button to open your save directory in the load game screen, and letting us have a look at it might give us some insights on what to fix.

Null · October 27, 2021, 5:12pm

uh yeah i have the save file (sorry for not replying i havent been on the comunity page in a while) : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SahpMp6SzSYXSF9dwmpQX1MKFSkfM2h3/view?usp=sharing

Null · October 27, 2021, 5:16pm

whenever i open the playtrough its really laggy and usually crashes, but i think thats the playtrough where there were tons of cells in a certain species. Ofc the size isnt as big as it used to be due to my species basically evolving to hunt those things.

hhyyrylainen · October 28, 2021, 6:42am

It looks like that file is not accessible. Could you set it to be visible? Or maybe use something like mega to make a public link?

Null · October 28, 2021, 4:02pm

here: