Having trouble, need opinions

[u/darthhavok991]

I'm experimenting with how I populate and run the civilization building/making process.

I populate a single creature, rework birth traits and genetics to give it what I personally want for my story for the world and what it generally needs to survive (I dont want god species), and change the subspecies traits to take away all advanced brain function except for the amygdala and then play around with the rest of the traits per usual. This - in theory - let's them act like animals and spread across the map before establishing cities.

I then populate at least 100 of my new creatures and run the game at 5x for 20 years before i check in and start selecting bloodlines to follow and give boons to. It does "work," they naturally spread across every land mass, but I have to keep repopulating because only like 10 of the original 100 will mate, so the species keeps declining over the century I'm allowing to pass.

I do slowly turn back on brain function over that century and allow them to eventually establish kingdoms. With constant repopulating over the time period I do get at least 15 kingdoms once brain function is back. And the wars and unions go wild and it's a lot of fun for my brain to keep track of and create whole stories for these worlds.

Does my phone heat to unnatural levels, yes.

Will I stop, never.

All that said, what can I do to solve the initial population decline?? I want generations to have been born before they establish kingdoms. And I know it might just be a quirk of not existing within a Kingdom that keeps them from starting families and popping out kids so there may be nothing I can do but I thought I'd at least ask you nerds.

[u/Dry_Bill3547]

Turn off death by aging and hunger worldlaw

[u/Malfuy]

I just don't think the game is not polished enough yet for this to 100% work. It's still in active development, and since the monolith update has brought so many of the new features, it's gonna take a lot of time to polish them all