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Graphics team has been really dormant lately. And that’s now starting to even impact the ability of finishing the achievements feature.

Auto-evo work has been much more active, but still many of the new things that auto-evo would need to take into account has not been done. There was one person tackling one of the issues but when I came back from my vacation and reviewed that work it was found to be requiring more work before it can be considered complete, and sadly that person since then has not made any further changes.

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This is not to mention major upgrades to microbe movement/action AI. Also, if the person who made the cladogram script doesn’t come back, would other people be able to extend it to other stages or would a rewrite be needed?

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Is there a reason that when you have more than so many citations they drop off the post? Or is there a formatting way to undo that?

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I put a lot of work into Thrive Formatting part 1 of my project, and when I had it in Windows 10 format it actually showed but now it doesn’t. Am I doing something wrong?

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I am pretty sure they should still show up if you click on the footnotes. I recall there used to be a bug where footnotes would cease to work after you’ve added too many of them to a post but it was fixed many months ago now. I’ve also noticed they all show up at the bottom when you’re still writing the post but don’t do that once you’ve actually posted it, perhaps this is the intended way for them to work?

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Drop how? You’ll need to explain what we are supposed to see in the images.

There’s a total limit of 32 thousand characters per post. So even if there is like some limit of 100 references per post, that would mean you are already using a significant portion of the allowed post length on just the references.

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I think Poodelicus wants the footnotes in their post to look like how they look in the post preview (which in case of Discourse is also apparently called the composer), where each footnote is a number linking to a source below the main post content (like what you expect footnotes/sourcing to look like on wikipedia), instead of how they function when actually posted here, being these tri-dot boxes within which the source is hidden. Poodelicus seems to see the conversion from the preview-footnotes to the actual footnotes as the preview ones “dropping off” from the post (though this is not dependent on the number of footnotes unlike what they said).
Also as the source is brought up no matter what kind of footnote is being used, I am rather sure the character difference between the two kinds of footnotes is not that large. With hyperlinks, it could still be possible to recreate the preview-footnotes so that they still look and work as intended once posted.

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Well that’s how the footnotes plugin works, it inserts inline notes.

To collect the links at the end of the post, that would require just manually writing them like that.

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I could have sworn there was a post where you click on the cited number and it takes you to the list out form at the bottom, and I thought this was how they typed that. Maybe I am misremembering.

4 characters per foot note, times 109 foot notes in the current part 1, which I would like to add a few more to, but I need to better understand whether I have 893 characters left, or 1321, or something else alltogther, left to work with.

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If you find the post, it will be easy enough to then see how it was done.

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So far I wasn’t able to find such a post, do you recall anything else about it?

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I looked, and I think I just misremembered. What a waste of time on all that improper formatting. I have spent more time re re re formatting this thing then actually writing it and all because I misunderstood how that part worked. :face_exhaling: Hopefully things will move faster now that I know a mild change on windows auto formatting is THE way to go with citations (for some reason, Bold makes words smaller and makes them pop out LESS on the forums, and it is not worth the characters to bold author names).

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Have you reformatted the text now so that the citations look like how they do on wikipedia?

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For some strange reason the bolding like **this** is a bit weird on the forums, however the bbcode bolding actually works ([b]bolded text[/b]), of course that takes even more characters to apply the formatting.

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So you can either have bolding take less characters and be of low quality or spend more characters on it for it to be of high quality…

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Is it planned to include the Coefficient of Relationship/Relatedness and Coefficient of Inbreeding for population calculations when developing later stages of the game?

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Perhaps it would be used when simulating island or isolated populations, though even then it could be of low priority.

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Will things like diseases be simulated in Macroscopic+

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Perhaps, though I think it was said they could be annoying for pre-society groups/organisms.

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It would probably make sense, then, to add some sort of Immune System mechanic to counter act such diseases, but it might be beyond the current planned scope for Thrive.

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And might also be too much pain to add.

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