Quick update

Wow, over a week without a post - how time flies. Anyone would think I was getting distracted with New Year....

Things are still moving. I've finally figured out how to use github, which means that I've downloaded a half handful of repositories to my PC, which is now running constantly doing exciting things like building Excavators and sending them out, as well as searching for glyphs for Halls of Vrbansk. I've managed to upgrade my Crashed Ship Site to level 5, and am working on level 6.

The current projects are:
- University upgrade
- Spy upgrade
- More excavators

After a few days of dithering, I've moved the University to my new Capitol planet. I've got it up to level 18, which is the highest I've managed, and am in the middle of upgrading the planet's storage so I can get level 19 (and which will mean I can make a start on a Genetics Lab.) I could speed this up quite a lot, I suspect, with Essentia and importing massive amounts of resources, but I don't want to spend that much time sat in front of a PC. At the moment, waste, water, and ore are all have one store of 19, and food will be done shortly. Energy will take a little longer (four days or so) so I do foresee an expenditure of Essentia shortly.

I noticed that one of my planets has at least one spy on it - it's showing up on the Defense Ministry page - so I'm spending a little time upgrading the spy related buildings to 15 or so, which is the point where they start to cost a serious amount of resources. I don't know if there are more spies out there, but it'll be nice to see - I note that the one I can see hasn't done anything for a couple of days, so hopefully the defensive spies are high enough level to stop him. Besides, where else am I going to find grist for a Genetics Lab?

I also realised that since I'm searching constantly for glyphs, it makes sense to upgrade the Archeology Ministries to up the odds. And if I can do that, then why not take them to level 15 - again, at the point where it starts to cost massive amounts of maintenance - and start putting out more Excavators? It's not like the resource cost for them will matter that much, and if it'll help me find extra Glyphs and Plans, why not?

Hmmm. Maybe less of a quick upgrade than I thought!