need late game help

[Vahe]

Enjoying the game very much, but have reached a problem late in the game. Ive unlocked a lot of the feats that allowed me to evolve easily whenever I wanted in the past. Now it seems I have to go into the feats menu and research a feat to accomplish, which in turn allows for further evolution. Basically, I need to change my gameplay, go back into the areas already explored - again and again, and do something which can then allow for an evolve.

I have found every area on the map except for 2. I have evolved faster that science to the point where my troop has reached the last tier of evolution with about 1 million years left before the 2 mil mark. I would like to "finish" and get all the unlockables, but it seems to be a slow grind at this point. Any advice? Or am I stuck with no unlockables now unless I do all of the tedious feats...

[Cougarific]

Because the feats are blurred out until you start accomplishing them, it will indeed be grindy to backtrack for them.

Might want to ask yourself if you think you'll ever do another run from the beginning. If so, consider this one a training run and set the game aside for awhile.

When you do start a new run you'll have a better sense of what you need to do to get all the feats and can focus on getting as many as possible as you progress, so there's less backtracking involved.

[Sargon The Grape]

Like Cougarific said, this might be one that gets written off as a training run unless you wanna do the tedious backtracking.

If you decide to do a new run from the beginning (and not a custom game that starts with a later species), then simply be sure to stay in each biome until you've completely exhausted all of its possible feats.

If you'd like to skip some of the more tedious feats, then just pass a bunch of generations. You get an extra thousand years of progress for every baby, and if I recall correctly the game will let you get 60-ish generations deep between evolution jumps before it just stops allowing you to make more babies. That's rather drastic, though, and in practice I find that evolving after the 18th baby is sufficient as long as I try to limit myself to one feat per evolution jump. (Incidentally, this is also the best way to grind out mutations.)

[Vahe]

Thanks for your replies. Ive been doing what Sargon suggests regarding the babies, and Im still about 200,000 years out. Almost there... lol.