So I decided just for fun to determan how many GP you would have to pay to have stats = the best tech available.

Sheilds = 5 units at 559 sheild each = 2795 sheilds

at 5 sheild per Xcharge= 559 units * 14 GP each= 7826

Hull Max 5 units at 1105 each = 5525

at 10 Hull per Bulkhead= 552.5 rounded to 553 units *14 GP each = 7742

Defense Thruster/Dampeners 4 each

Thrusters 820*4= 3280

Dampeners 625*4=2500

Total=5780 at 3 per Android= 1926.666 rounded to 1927 at 16GP each= 30832

Total GP = 46400 Gp

Now to convert that to money (lets assume you buy in lots of $50 each)

46400/550=84.36363636 Round to 85

85*50= $4250

Conclusion do your research, it will save you $4250 in the long run!

....Or you could just get the exact same artifacts from artifact pulls.

Exactly... buy your mission exotic and dyson ASAP and get them all from artie pull.

Working on it, still looking for a mettle planet to dysonize!

This was more a fun experiment to me to see how much money/units of improvement are needed to be compared to the best research available.

*shrugs* Understandable.