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First, though given what you typed I don't think this is the the issue, you've double-checked that the value is input in ALLCAPS?

I think that if the autobackup value is still set to "no," the game's behavior is to autosave by overwriting the main save folder. So, if you play for a while, the game autosaves, and you then quit playing, the save on exiting the game overwrites the autosave. Have you tried turning on autobackup?

You can just host your avatar on tinypic, you know.  That's where all of mine live.

The Thraddash live on tinypic?! Precursors help the human race!

I figure I'll do them both in bauxite just to be sure they don't install them backward... 

It's Mnemonic Time!

"Furniture first, lever last."

Not perfect .... but useful?

Did you set them to new stations when they became commanders of their individual squads? Might be worth a try.

Is there a meeting area defined somewhere subterranean?

Might be drifting a bit out-of-period, but wouldn't it be nice to have a conveyor system for all the bloody rough stone (not that it has to be only for stone, but I can tolerate the rest)?

Intelligence is tough to quantify (hell, it's tough to hash out a definition for the concept), and for about any population will have variation. I don't think there's a single result that a mutation would destine a creature to die (barring those nasty DNA errors that make a fetus non-viable).

Really, individuals are probably functionally irrelevant in the larger picture of adaptation and niches. Populations provide a better foundation to see change in species over time.

The other major barrier I see is that adaptation (in this case, for intelligence, even in a closely-related primate) takes time. A lot of time. I don't think that bloody naked mole dogs should have a shot in hell of such massive change over the course of a century. Or a millennium. Even ten-thousand, a hundred-thousand years is dodgy. Much as I'd like to play Dwarf Fortress — Animal Farm, the model presented here is far too simplifed.

Moreover, genetics without any genes is .... well, not genetics. Can't dredge up a good analogy.

d > b > f

is my in-game option for those situations.