Since you added the wonderful information about how long it takes for the energy bar to fill up. Would it be possible to do the same for the research/artifact/mineral bars?

again, can we leave something for those who are willing to put the time into becoming better? I dont want this to eventually being the game playing itself because people are either incompetent or lazy and just go "hays I want you to do this for meeeee!!11!1" on the forums.

The concept is to separate convenience from laziness. For energy it's a convenience, as those who want to know won't waste their time logging in every 4 hours for something that won't fill for 12. For production values it is quite clear how long you take, if not it's simple division and subtraction to find out. I would label that laziness.

I consider max energy time no harder to calculate than production.
Energy Bar Max = (Total Energy - Current Energy)/Energy Charge Rate (given in the hover over).
Product Bar Max = (Total Production - Current Production)/Production Rate

Why is one harder to calculate than the other?

Back to the question of laziness; maybe it is however, for me, it is more about consistency. If one bar has it, they all should.

The game is great but there are a lot of unnecessary redundancies. These are the kinds of things that bore the average player. Another great example is the Stacking Artifacts. Since there is no reason not do it anymore, it would be automatic (or to make someone else happy, the option to do it automatically).

I gotta say its pretty eazy to figure out how long it will take for any of the bars to fill or production to max or artifacts , but there is a certain segment of the community that would need the eazily to read big print version as they lack the ability to balance a check book figure out average miles per gallon for there car or understand if they eat 4 eggs out of a dozen they only have 8 left and need to buy some more .

I think it would be funny if for one day the hovering links said something like go play farmville yer too stupid to play this game