#evolution game

Q: How has Sagan 4 lasted so long when most other evolution games don't? A. It's difficult to say for certain without many examples of successful, long-running evolution games to compare it to, but we're pretty sure these were major contributing factors:

Sagan 4 moves to the next time step based on how many species are made, which has two main effects: - The passage of time in-universe automatically scales to the project's activity; by design, time only passes when the game is being played - The limited size of each time step means you can miss your chance to evolve a species before it goes extinct, creating enough urgency to sustain a low amount of activity even during "dead" periods

Sagan 4 has well-organized ecosystem pages that make it easier for newcomers to quickly find exactly what they need to know to make their own species, even when there are thousands of entries to sift through