Ecology and Nature Crisis Update

I received reports that responding to a nature or ecology crisis would spend

your resources but the crisis would return almost immediately, sometimes over

and over. Thank you for flagging it. This update fixes the root causes and makes

your investment in the environment actually stick.

What was going wrong:

- Resolving a crisis did not fix its cause. When you chose a response to a

nature or ecology crisis, the game charged you and applied the effect, but it

never rebalanced the wildlife or biome driving the crisis. The underlying

imbalance remained, so the same crisis re-triggered shortly after, making it

feel like your resources did nothing.

- Some crises slipped through a second resolution path. Crises answered through

multi-choice events were hit hardest: the effects applied, but the biome was

never brought back into balance, so a follow-up crisis fired again soon after.

- A neglected environment could get stuck at rock bottom. If your biosphere

collapsed, it could flatline at zero with no way back, so nature crises never

let up no matter what you did.

- Crises fired far too often. Even a recovering environment faced crises at full

frequency, so there was no visible payoff for cleaning things up.

- You had no way to see progress. Nothing told you whether your ecology was

recovering or whether crises were becoming less likely.

What I fixed:

- Resolving a crisis now heals its cause. Every way of clearing a crisis, single

choice, multi-choice, and dismiss, now rebalances the originating biome and

opens a short calm window, so a crisis you pay to resolve stays resolved

instead of instantly repeating.

- All resolution paths are unified. Every crisis-clearing path now runs through

one shared step, so no crisis type can slip through without its biome being

healed.

- A neglected environment now recovers on its own. Instead of dying permanently

at zero, a neglected biosphere gradually rewilds back toward a natural floor,

giving your ecology a path back.

- Crises ease as your ecology recovers. The healthier your biosphere, the less

often nature crises strike, from full frequency at the floor to roughly half as

often at a healthy biosphere, so environmental investment clearly pays off.

- New at-a-glance indicators. The Overview and Wildlands screens now show a

Nature Crisis Risk readout, how much less often crises hit compared with a

barren sector, plus a recovery-versus-decline trend, so you can see your

progress at a glance.

- Guardrails to keep it fixed. We added automated checks that fail the build if

any future change lets a resolved crisis skip healing its biome, so this class

of bug cannot quietly return.

• I've begun taking a stab at the Map. The map is awful, I know.

~Luke.