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What does Genetic Fitness now do?

Hello there, I'm Jason Rohrer. Well, at least this is what I look like inside my new game, One Hour, One Life. Yup, this is it. We're live inside the game, right now. Actually, this is my modern home office. Civilisation in the game hasn't gotten this quite advanced yet. Maybe someday though. Did you see that? I just got older again. A whole year passes every minute, and we live a entire lifetime, from birth to old age, in just one hour. We better get on with this tour, before my time runs out. Everything you see here runs on a persistent server. It starts out full of untouched wilderness, and it's up to us - the players - to rebuild civilisation from scratch together. I think she's coming. That's Eve, the first player to join the server. And the second player should be joining right about now. Yep, that's player two, Eve's first baby. When you join the server as a baby, you're truly helpless. You depend on care from your parents in order to survive. If they help you live into adulthood, you have a chance to have babies of your own someday. And your babies will be other players who are depending on you for their survival. You're just one small link in a very long chain. What you accomplish during your brief lifetime will depend on the situation you're born into. At first, your contribution might be pretty basic. But future generations can build on the foundation that you helped to create. Hopefully, you get a chance to make your own small mark on the world before you die. And maybe create something that helps your children and grandchildren. But really, all of  this, is just the beginning. As players continue climbing up through the tech tree, I'll be staying one step ahead of them by adding new stuff to the game every week. So I hope you'll join me, as this crazy game unfolds. I may even spawn as your baby at some point, and it'll be up to you to take care of me. As we rebuild civilisation together, who knows where we'll end up.

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Let me just throw this out here, alright? Here are some ideas I have to make genetic fitness more important.
1. Make it impact lifespan (higher score makes you live longer than 60, lower genetic score (below zero, I'll get to that later) makes your lifespan shorter.)
2. Allow the genetic score to go below zero, as low as -60.
3. A lower genetic score can cause birth defects (these aren't procedural, and at first, you could start with simple ones, like blindness at birth and being unable to speak.)
4. Baldness is not affected by genetic score. You don't have to make a different variation of the same character that doesn't go bald.
5. A genetic score above 0 will cause your head to start drooping down later on in life (genetic score of 20 prevents your head from drooping down altogether.)
6. A genetic score below 0 will cause your head to start drooping down earlier (the earliest your head can start drooping down is 30. And you'll reach that point if you have a genetic score of -10.)
7. Birth defects will start happening to you at genetic score -15
8. This is just an idea that may not happen, but make different character variations that lose hair color later on in life and age better (in terms of appearance) that you get if you have a higher genetic score. Likewise, make different character variations that age worse in terms of appearance if you have a lower genetic score.
9. A higher genetic score makes you speedier (up to 1.8 x faster than normal.) Also it will make you lose speed later on, and eventually make you not lose speed.
10. A lower genetic score makes you slower (as low as 0.7 x normal speed) and you will lose speed as early as 35
11. If you have a genetic score of 60 for example, you will be able to say 10 characters at birth (talking babies lol), and be able to say 70 characters (max) at 25.
12. A lower genetic score makes you gain more characters to say later on. Max remains the same.
13. Speed in your youth is affected by genetic score, you'll be slower if your genetic score is lower, and you'll be speedier if your genetic score is higher. Also the speed boost happens earlier with a higher score and later with a lower score.
Those are just my ideas, add your own, improve on mine, criticize. And Jason, please add your opinion. I'd like to know.

What was going on there? Added a new character appearance change?