I now have nine colonies; two of them are fairly new, four very well established, and the remainder needing light work. I'm running four scripts; one to send probes, one to send excavators, one to build ships (feeding the first two), and one to search for glyphs.
And I'm now hitting the 5,000 request limit per day more often than not.
Yesterday, it was almost six hours before the reset; today it was a mere four.
I'm starting to get frustrated by this - I can see it actually being enough to put me off the game. I admit, I do a fair amount of pottering during the day, thanks to being a gentleman of leisure; and I'm trying to build up my university constantly, too (a round of upgrade storage buildings, then production buildings, then the university), so I tend to ship a lot of resources around.
Well, I say a lot; most colonies are a half an hour away from the homeworld, so I can manage a return trip per hour. I wouldn't have thought I was making that many requests doing so (one to load the planet, one to load the trade ministry, one to choose the target world, then one request per ship) which is four per planet per hour; I guess it does add up quite fast.
But I can't see that I'd want to stop using the scripts, really - it's taking a lot of the micromanagement out of the game, and that is, most definitely, a good thing. I really don't want to have to worry about making sure that ship building queues on nine planets are kept up to date - there's little enough capacity in most of them that I can't create a queue that'll last longer than a couple of hours.
Dammit.
