LorenzoGatti said:
All three suggested systems, and many others, make sense, but only Pokémon-style irreversible progress should be called an “evolution”

Not necessarily. Even Pokemon introduces Mega Evolutions, which only last for the duration of a fight. Sure, its only a subset of evolutions in tho…

You need to determine what you want, genome recombination (accurate or not doesn't matter) or a way two recombine 2 dimensional arrays? Are they fixed to 2 fields each or do you consider to have N fields in the second array? This makes a huge difference and you should learn to ask for what you want…

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