The bugs are gradually being pushed to extinction, performance is recovering rapidly and both the simulation balance and polish are thriving in their new home!
I released the .9 hotfix yesterday with a number of polish and stability improvements and the .10 hotfix just now with more of the same, plus some unexpectedly substantial performance gains.
Full changelist for both hotfixes:
* Fertile underwater biomes now form in deeper water, further from the shore.
* Underwater biomes can now be grazed to non-existence the same as land biomes, and will gradually regrow over time.
* Rewrote the temperature/fertility influence shaders. Trees should no longer affect temperature, and heating/cooling devices should no longer affect fertility.
* Grass grows back faster now.
* Can now use numpad for camera control
* Optimized stat change performance
* Optimized emotion change performance
* Fixed hotkeys not responding consistently
* Fixed Tilde (~) not pausing the game when pressed
* Fixed a survival strategy where creatures could gain energy by suffocating themselves (no, really. The little bastards will exploit anything)
* Fixed bug where some creatures were Unselectable
* Fixed bug where creatures could breed multiple times on a single frame, or while paused, without paying the energy cost. (This occasionally resulted in one creature giving birth to a cap-breaking horde when you paused the game)
* Fixed common clade-diagram related crash during speciation.
* Fixed a possible crash when creating a world.
* Fixed crash when creating too many rovers (You'd be surprised how many bug reports can be summarized with: "the game didn't stop me when I deliberately tried to break it").
* Fixed a second, less-common crash related to rovers.
* World Seed displaying correctly after loading a save game
Known issue: accidentally disabled mouse-edge scrolling. Apologies to anyone who was using it! I'll take the opportunity to implement an option to turn it on/off, since I know it was causing grief to windowed-mode users.
Full disclosure: I accidentally uploaded a broken version of 0.11.0.10 just prior to release for a few minutes. I backed it out immediately, but if you got it you would have noticed creatures acting extremely strangely, breeding rapidly to cap and making a beeline for one corner of the map.
If you ended up with this version, just restart Steam to get it to download the fixed copy.