Feedback:
I Feel like it takes way too long to get automation working, with stuff like red science especially. With Assemblers taking stuff that requires Nickel Processing, it takes about 170 Red science packs to even start automatically making even the most basic science. I feel like we need a way to either automate red science With a different building or find a way to get an assembler quicker. Making all of those red science packs can just take a while. You can't even make basic defenses without those 170 packs.

My idea is to make The Nickel and Invar Stocks and The Nickel and Invar Machined Parts Processing something you have at the start of the game rather than it needed to be researched and merge the Basic Automation Tech with the Metalworking Machining Tech into 1. That would streamline the process and make things not take too long to get going.

Thank you for the feedback. :)

Counter idea, early slower versions of assemblers made out of rock! ;)