One major thing that I don’t see mentioned here yet, or I didn’t see it when skimming this again, is that auto-evo now that the player is affected by it, needs rebalancing to make it make more sense. The first thing that needs to go is it being really tough on larger cells and the nucleus making no sense to auto-evo (meaning that AI species can no longer spontaneously get the nucleus). These need at least a little bit of attention.
One other thing that I could throw in the milestone if there’s someone with time to work on it (if I get my tasks complete ahead of schedule I might tackle this, as this is pretty important for future auto-evo work), is the auto-evo exploring tool for the game.