What numbers specifically? For zerobot you should only configure the initial size, all other settings are for a different evolution mode. I May have to go trough these and make sure options get disabled that are not used by a specific mode.
The 'auto-algorithm' is pretty straight forward:
Start 50 by 50 mutating and base robots
Once a mutating robot is doing well save it stage1 ..stage2 ..stage3 ..etc.
Test this robot if it is making it by itself w/o mutations
If not, restart with both robots but replace them with later stages (anything from 16 stages ago to now can be reinserted)
The core idea here is that findbest's based on energy vs. based on population ratio is 4:1 where most of the time the program chooses only based on population but sometimes it chooses only based on energy. This forces the stage results to generally be more toward population, but eventually due to how the robots are peered up, the system produces interesting results.
Also note that 50 was chosen for the smallest field. At larger fields the population is also larger.
Finally, some times a whole species 'base' or 'mutate' population gets cut by half. In this case the program is instructed to reinsert some robots. But on every reinsert the amount of robots to be reinserted goes down. This is kinda like a half life effect from physics. Eventually, the program will give up and choose other starting robots.
Let me also note that this ideas are not really original, I just took all zerobot evolution methods talked about on the forum and merged them into one.