after getting stuck, i joined the discord and read the guide, had to decide on waiting for 4 days to gather enough of a resource to unlock something before i spend another 4 days actively grinding a resource to get a perk which won't speed up my prestiges at all but will allow me to start another prestiege that should take me, oh, about 4 days, or continuing to grind the stuff im still working on fairly actively. i am on the second prestige layer and there are probably about ten more in front of me?

i like a lot about this game - the art, the feel of the units flowing into each other, the quips, even the complexity. i do not like the pacing. i do not like how some things progress offline (waste, energy) but other things need you to be online (runes, oysters). i definitely don't like how you are punished for attempting challenges and the ruinous difficulty cliffs. i HATE how the autobuyers are gated behind punishingly high walls - this is not an "idle" game in any meaningful sense for the first few months, this is an active-play game with a lot of clicking and babysitting.

i'm done. it's just too slow, grinding is way too repetitive with not nearly enough automation, and i dread having to do three prestieges to get one upgrade that might make me 10% faster.