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Neat simulation, but something seems up with the traits. I have ended up with two lineages with ridiculously high "Predate" scores - one with over 10^22 "percent".

Also, it's currently running at 1 tick per second...

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Good catch, you actually found a bug. The predation (and dormancy) weights were being multiplied by scarcity/emotion modifiers, but in some early-return paths the original values were never restored. That meant the weights compounded every tick and could blow up exponentially into these absurd numbers.

That also explains the slowdown: once those values get extreme, a lot of the probability and normalization math gets very expensive.

It’s fixed now by restoring the original weights before every early return. Thanks for flagging it. That was a legit bug.

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