[Suggestion] CRISPR upgrade to track MAD and Bioseed on species evolution screen

[jvanegmond]

Suggestion:
A 300-ish Plasmid cost CRISPR upgrade to track which species you have MAD'd and which you have Bioseeded right on the species selection/evolution screen.

Example:
In the screen where you are about to choose your species, hovering over the species shows the level at which this species has gone through MAD and its genus went through Bioseed scenarios. With a 0-4 challenge level scale indicator. At the bottom of the species description.

Why a CRISPR upgrade?
It doesn't change the game for newcomers. Experienced players will be using some kind of achievement tracker to play completionist, and this tracker for MAD and Bioseed makes that somewhat unnecessary - at least for most playthroughs.

[yarukishi]

The evolution screen already shows colored achievement icons on each species (associated with extinction achievements) and genus (associated with greatness achievements). Have you seen these icons? They appear to provide exactly the same purpose as this suggestion.

Regarding achievement tracking: the game's own built-in wiki reflects information from the player's save file, so the achievement list doubles as an achievement tracker.

[jvanegmond]

That's 100% true. You only see those icons once you reach the genus/species, so you may have to reset a couple times. So I go from the Achievements page, then I use this species flowchart https://www.reddit.com/r/EvolveIdle/comments/16gp641/updated_and_cleaned_up_species_flowchart/ and go from there to the right place.

I'd love if those icons on the species would be enough information to know if it's worth opening up that path for evolution without having to resort to the Achievements page and/or the species flowchart. In a way so that this information is displayed upfront and in-game - after a CRISPR upgrade.

[yarukishi]

I don't follow how this suggestion provides the benefit that you describe, since the same information is presented at the same time or later than when the achievement icons are already displayed in the game. The proposal, as I understand it, is to show (hide?) the information in the popper (tooltip) for individual species, whose buttons don't appear until the entire evolution path has been set.

In any case, there would be no sense adding a CRISPR upgrade for improvements to the presentation of information that is already available in the game. It could just be applied for free. The existing icons on buttons in the evolution/protoplasm phase have a disadvantage that players frequently do not understand what the icons are meant to express, perhaps due to the lack of any explanatory text in the tooltips.