I think a lot of the game's trading problems can be solved by simply adding 1 block to the game:
Factory Optimizer
Factory progression block
Factory Optimizer
- Increases items created per cycle by +0.01% per optimizer (rounded down to integer) linked to factory, without increases resource consumption. Having 10.000 optimizers will double the output with the same input.
- Increases time per factory cycle to 1.001^n (Exponential growth in factory cycle time with more optimizers added) where n is the number of optimizer...
Factory progression block