The population keeps crashing

[hhyyrylainen]

@thriveuser1454

I’ve noticed that a lot. Auto-evo extincts species really aggressively, especially with the player around. The patches I inhabit usually decay to only 1-3 other species, and one of my runs ended with my cell becoming a genocidal abomination that instakills the population of the patch.

Meanwhile, there’s this thread talking about giving the player even more advantage against auto-evo…

Reworking when auto-evo is applied in the gameplay loop

Ah, I think I see what you mean now. So like the auto-evo results would still be “open” when you get to the editor? And as a result the player could modify their species and only then confirm the results which would then get re-calculated with the modified player. Theoretically that is doable but as a programmer I need to say that the code architecture really doesn’t flex like that so it would be a lot of effort needed to make the map etc. work with a temporary results overlay on top of the co…

@The_confused_protist

Well, the issue is, they all die in a single generation forcing me to jump to another patch pretty much the moment I get into the editor.

Do they die due to the external effect of you killing them during gameplay or just the auto-evo calculation? This is an important distinction.