The first question is in regards to Exotic Matter.

Does the amount of EM increase per pull over time? I'm curious because I've been getting roughly 120 - 150 em per hours worth of production for a long time now, regardless of how much I have increased my hourly production stats.

The second question is in regards to artifact pulls.

Is there some sort of optimal pull amount to give me rescued prisoners? I'm curious because they are the ones I need the most right now, but getting them isn't exactly easy with my current artifact production stats. :-/

I get much smaller amounts of EM from my hourly than when I get the mineral daily reward, and I've seen my EM growth correlate with my mineral production growth. With that, I'm pretty sure it's directly correlated to the amount of mineral points you're collecting.




You need 4K AP to get one, but at 20K you start pulling MSPs, so the realistic optimal is (as much as possible) to pull above 4K but below 20K. Unrealistically, Continuum Beacons drop at 5K, so if you could pull below 5K and above 4K as much as possible you might increase your Prisoners:AP ratio a little more.

Most excellent. Thank you.

I get about 1 EM for every 50 MP collected

1st question: I've measured 1 EM per 51 MP for myself.
2nd question: Its not practical, but you can manually collect one arti at a time keeping yourself as close as possible to just above the number of AP that a prisoner is worth (I don't know it off the top of my head - the wiki has a list of AP per artifact).

EDIT: or just read up a few posts. 4000 AP per prisoner.