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awesome work :) some open questions i have: - what are titans and giants?

- "micro-brains" and "learning" is always showing 0 for me..but on the "neural" section it shows some tiny ups on the brain graph, ...saying at the same time in the bigger box under the graph that 22% have micro-brains, while showing 0 in all other places for that number

- "Timeline" seems not to work, always showing "Timeline data will appear as the simulation progresses." also after 150k ticks

- regarding seasons: whats the meaning of "(2s)" for the conditions? Im assuming its a kind of countdown?

- indicator "Food" always seems to show 100%

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Thanks!

Great questions, and you actually caught a few UI inconsistencies that I’ve now fixed.

Titans / Giants: these are just very large organisms. Titans are size 20 and up, and I log those in the size panel. I also updated the field guide with sizes: https://soupof.life/concepts/life-organisms/size-classes

Micro-brains / learning showing 0: that was a real bug in the UI. Different panels were using different thresholds to decide what counts as a brain. I’ve aligned everything so micro-brains now consistently mean organisms that can actually form memories and learn. The stats and graphs should now match.

Timeline not showing: timeline only records data if logging is enabled. I’ve updated the panel to make that explicit and added a button to enable recording directly.

Seasons and (2s): that was unclear. It now shows how many seasons are left for extreme conditions, for instance 2 seasons left, with tooltips explaining what each season does.

Food always at 100%: that was also wrong. It was showing a refill rate, not real scarcity. It now reflects actual global food availability and will drop when the world is under pressure.

Really appreciate you flagging this, it helped clean up a bunch of confusing edges.

For reference, here’s an example of a titan from one of my runs: https://soupof.life/card/0oyvjmq1

You can click any organism to zoom in and see size, traits, and morphology details.

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