As I was playing the new update, I noticed that my population on the patch map and the report screen didn’t increase above 50. It worked earlier when playing on this save, but at some point it stopped working. On the editor tab the population seems to be correct (it says 946 in the auto-evo prediction), but my cells aren’t present in the patches I’ve been in according to the patch map. This might be a bug with the migration feature, as I tried it out earlier in my run, but I didn’t notice the population error till several generations after using it. Maybe it happened immediately after and I just didn’t notice. I’ve attached the log for today’s game session with a pastebin link below.
If there is anything else I can give you, let me know. The problem is I don’t exactly know what caused this bug.
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The auto-evo predictions are currently quite incorrect for some reasons that are proving very hard to track down: Auto-evo prediction population is now quite rarely very accurate now · Issue #5405 · Revolutionary-Games/Thrive · GitHub While there might be another issue, generally I would assume the patch map and report screen to have the accurate info
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This is caused when auto-evo doesn’t like your species at all, and wants it extinct. From 0 population the bonus for getting to the editor is 50. So you always end up with 0 population but by getting to the editor you get a bonus of 50. Thus you are stuck at that value until you edit your species so that the simulation likes it enough to give it a bit of population.
Again, if auto-evo wants you dead, it will kill off your population in each patch where you aren’t (and thus don’t get the editor population bonus).
Also to address the title of your thread and what @GameDungeon mentioned: the prediction is not fully accurate. And even if the prediction was made more accurate, it still wouldn’t account for the competition that also get to evolve. So even if the prediction was 100% correct, then in the next editor cycle the AI species have been given a chance to mutate and they might be more effective in competing against you and as a result your population is lower than what the prediction showed.
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