Hey I realized that, to keep your spot in balance in terms of strength for rank. You need a good income of artifacts, minerals and research right? And that you must have a lot of good planets that you can colonize each time you gain the required level to obtain another planet. What is best idea to do with spending your research points on for a balance of sensors and planetery construction? For example: Having tier 4 (1/3) researched for sensors and researched tier 2 (1/3) for planetery construction?

You need high sensors research to find good planets to colonize as you run out of any un-colonized good planets.

And personal stats are, I currently am level 96 and I am a couple levels away from colonizing a new planet. I have ran out of good planets I consider my minimum to colonize (massive - extremely abundant or very large - rich). I do have some that meets the requirement but only for mineral planets and I am not after anymore mineral planets. Currently I have sub-dimension sensor (0/3) and Global mesh (0/3) researched. Any hints or advice on which of the two I should further research first in the state I am in?

780research/hr and 650 artifacts/hr

Sorry quite I hard question for me to say, struggles eh?