I think it would be good idea if you could (instead of just recieve artifact), have an option to recieve artifacts till your points fall below a certain amount.

So for e.g if i had 25000 artifact point to cash in. i put recieve until 4000. i recieve 2 Tachyon Cylinder's 1400, Alien Data Disc 700, Mass Storage Pod 20000,

25000-1400= 23600-700= 22900-20000=2900. so at this point i would stop recieving the artifacts.

It would speed up recieveing artifacts, especially for the higher levels. Also the points should be deducted in order of what they would be if you just kept clicking recieve artifact.

So guys and gals, opinions opinions

i see where it could be useful, but i also see where it could be abused...

abused?
how so?

well, a little while ago i heard of players using an auto clicking program. so i began to investigate players off my battle tab with my horde of resource probes, and found this was a rather common thing, i found at least 3 other players that do this in one day. therefore, if all of them set their artifact numbers to 4k, and click once every few hours (depending on their ap) they can gurantee themselves at a ship buffing drop at all times during the day. research is easy to autoclick, minerals are somewhat challenging, but a strategic artifact gatherer without knowing what artifacts theyre getting would find rather difficult on an autoclicking program.

ok, so it can be abused. but lets face it, if someones going to cheat or take advantage of a program, they will figure out how to make it efficant one way or another for them. this is purely for the people who dont cheat and want to make the game a little less time consuming by having to constantly click. we shouldnt out rule ideas just because cheaters could slightly use it to there advantage.

i agree with that, we shouldnt rule out ideas just because of cheaters. and although i can see some players using this system, i personally wouldnt. I enjoy clicking the artifact button 30-40 times, especially inbetween repairs since they still dont have ship repair relays. if i didnt have the artifact clicking, i probably wouldnt spend as much time on this game as i do now.

Im just fed up of being late for work cause i gota click so much ;-P. na but in all seriousness if you wanted to, the option to keep clicking would still be there. this would just be an alternate way of doing it. everyone wins

+1,
Upside: Get to set it so you dont spend past amount. Usually i have the problem with just clicking it cause its tempting, but if i set it to a certain amount when i click it it would be perfect cause i would lose much. But the one thing almost everyone (including me) would probably do this: Say i have 23,000 Artifact points, I would set my lock to 22,300 to get anything for 700, and so on with whatever you want, limiting it to a certain amount and then it would probably take alot and give you the arti you wanted, its like an Auto choose what you want ;/


Downside:Cheaters

i think you miss understand...
You would recieve artifacts until your artifact amount falls below said amount. so even if you had 23000 and set it to 22300, you would stop recieve artifacts when it falls below that amount, so you could still recieve a mass storage pod at 20000 so you would have 3000 left and because 3000 is below 23000 you would at that point stop recieving artifacts.
understand a bit better now?