I am rank 63 - will be 64 by tomorrow at the latest.

Minerals: 161/hour
Artifacts: 548/hour
Research: 514/hour

I am a Konqul Spy, and I'm a general build (more focussed on hacking), but I can diversify when needed.

My upkeep is 308.4k/day.

The reason that I'm asking is because next rank, I get another planet, and I'll be having a little scan spree.

i forgot what i had when i was rank 63. But you seem fine, maybe a little bit more mining. But money isn't really an issue at low ranks when you have high ranks giving a bit of kurenite.

in my opinion, low ranks can never have too much research. another mining planet would be good, but it can probably wait another four ranks.

lol your artifact production is higher than me at rank 105, but you really need mining, the earlier you start stockpiling money, the better you're going to do at higher ranks with outrageous upkeep.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll get research next, then a mining planet.

The reason I've got my artifacts so high so early is so I can pull "free" boosts (e.g androids, Xcharge cells, etc). I've also got a lot of "special" modules to keep costs down (exo-temporals, dark ring thrusters, stryll transponders, etc.) I have 100 mil in the bank, and only a 300k upkeep, so I haven't put that much effort into mining yet.

dude you really need mining, my upkeep is about 1.9mil (I sell modules now instead of keeping them) and my mining is 760, and I have 3.1bil and I can pay upkeep multiple times over in one hours' worth of shipments.
how long does it take your mining to make enough money for upkeep?

4 hours easily pays for my upkeep right now.

Tomorrow I'll have my 4 levely planet scan spree, when I sell all non-mission modules, install reactors until I level up, then as each reactor empties I replace it with a scanner, while using all the boosts going.

It worries me when I see people many ranks below me with almost equal resouces.

At 94:
Mining: 604. (+127)
Artifact: 405 (+47)
Research: 800 (+210)

The mining difference will be 1/2 planets?
The artifact difference is one planet.
The research difference is 2-4 planets.

I currently own 16 planets, so:

10.06 mining/hour/planet
34.25 artifact/planet/hour
32.13 research/planet/hour

28.88 raw research (without scientists, which I pull a LOT from my artifacts)/planet/hour.

I have 2 mining planets, 7.5 artifacts and 6.5 research planets (one planet has ex. rich research AND artifacts so I split them evenly).

My next planet will be research, then mining, then I'll have to see what happens.

id get quite a few mining after ur research

lol with all your money you could pay my upkeep twice and 8-10 hours to produce my upkeep with 3390 minerals per hour.

Man.
You are exagerrating upkeep. 1.9 Mill is NOTHING. Upkeep is not something to worry about at low levels. Deducting 1.9 Mill every 24 hours is not a massive value. I have 218 Mill upkeep and thats not too bad. I can find that much money on the floor.
Only Start worrying about upkeep when your rank 300+

He sort of does need mining, but i would rather him get research.

his research is fine for now, He'll have to get that up to 1k an hour soon, but I have a nice mining planet in my scans (very large volcanic, extremely rich mining), I could give that to you.

Why not get 1000 research an hour now?

If you want to, try and switch to Vygoid Excavator. +20% Research, +10% Artifacts. Very useful..

1k/hr is pointless at low ranks.

I lose alot of my research because it maxes so fast. And some of my mining . At least I got a large Icy from a mate which I will melt. And am buying one. (Had no luck with Icys. Small, Very Small, Small, Small, Tiny, Tiny, Small, Very Small, Large (So much defense! )) My deserts are just as bad... honestly, I've scanned better barrens than Icys or Deserts. (V. Large/Rich ftw!)

Good Point. His research cap is rank x 150