I just saw in auto-evo a place where energy balance is computed twice just a few rows apart:
https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive/blob/28e604b61f63162dd44f54bd450fcbd8cd93674b/src/auto-evo/simulation/PopulationSimulation.cs#L191

this should be super simple to just store that in a variable instead of computing it twice, should give at least a tiny performance benefit.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When using the built in agents, users cannot override the strategies.

Describe the solution you'd like
The constructors for the built in agents should take strategy as an optional argument that defaults to the parent's default strategy.

Overview

Everything in lib/utilities is intended to be Rails agnostic (though many use some feature like .blank?. These libraries are execellent targets for extraction and simplification of our code base.

Extraction target

• https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks/blob/development/lib/utilities/dates.rb and corresponding specs

Re-integration

Refactoring should be s