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Hi! First of all, thank you for your comment. I agree with you that upgrades seem to get really expensive (point-wise) after a certain point, but I made sure after running a lot of simulations that the cost is actually lower than what you gain from them in terms of how much sense the text makes. That's why I also thought about including evolution of species, even if it's just a skin, because I think it makes more sense when you're making a monkey more and more intelligent, it's not just pure chance anymore. The intelligence only drops happen when a child takes over: it can be not that brilliant at the beginning —it happens, I was much dumber than my parents when I was born 😂— but they should quickly recover what they lost: in my simulations, apart from the Australopithecus, all the evolutions took the same time. Still, I appreciate the feedback: I'm considering easing the learning curve even if it means reaching the end much faster, or adding more levels between 1 and 100; it's just that some part of me also likes the contemplative side of just watching what it has been writing without rushing. Thanks again for playing and taking some time to write!

Thank you for your comment! And yeah, the original idea is definitely pretty similar, a friend actually pointed that out to me when I had the first version 😬