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favor_feasible

Prioritize feasible designs

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

## Description

This replacement operator will always prefer a more feasible design to a less feasible one. Beyond that, it favors solutions based on an assigned fitness value which must have been installed by the weighted sum only fitness assessor.

The `favor_feasible` replacement type first considers feasibility as a selection criteria. If that does not produce a "winner" then it moves on to considering fitness value. Because of this, any fitness assessor used with the `favor_feasible` selector must only account objectives in the creation of fitness. Therefore, there is such a fitness assessor and it's use is enforced when the `favor_feasible` selector is chosen. In that case, and if the output level is set high enough, a message will be presented indicating that the `weighted_sum_only` fitness assessor will be used.