looking thru these it doesnt look like any is too bad off, but most of u are neglecting artifacts? if u want to grow, u should balance artis with ur research level, so that u get as many ship bots and slaves (rescued prisoners) as it takes so as not to be deck shy when its time to upgrade. I am rank 475 and normally get at least 3-5 ship bots and 2-4 slaves a day...i am a heavy galaxy destroyer and just need to complete nrg, the base, weapons and cloak (im into the last trees of all of these) except the base stuff.

My AP is down not because it's neglected I would dearly love it to be higher but because I have to colonize what I find I just can't raise it, I suspect the same can be said for some of the other posters. Also to balance paying my 2.1B upkeep I have had to make the mission dyson into a mining planet not arti. If you have any advice on how I can boost my arti production i'm all ears, but bear in mind I can't buy GP to do so.

a small 3x mega terra has 39 spaces and are fairly common...if u put 2 Hyperforge Fabricators (Artifact: 12, 18 spaces) and 2 space elevators on it (38 total spaces) u will get a production rate of 202.5 ap/hr. This planet doesnt need much else as its not meant to be a permanent addition anyway...

Last scan sweep I found 201 new planets from which three were (artifact wise) worth taking. In case you think you miss-read that's three. A small terra, a very massive gaia and a massive ocean. The previous scans weren't that far away from it. I can't make up artifact planets from thin air.

Exactly, I'd colonize a small 3x terra, but I have none scanned. Infact out of 427 planet scans I have come accross 7 Terras 0 Gaias. My 6 best Artifact planets are ones I have had to invade after others have transformed them to crystals or oceanics. Thier is no common planet type with a primary resource of artifact, mining has volcanic/barren research has gas, combine that with the lack of an arti boosting NPC drop you have the appearence of neglectng artifacts.

I know my income really sucks for my level.

3400 mining.
4300 research.
1800 artifact.

Level 310 Silyxx fixer.

4 planet slots available.

The problem is I can't find ANY artifact planets, and I only have 3 15x mega rich planets, and about 10 planets between 0x and 2x mega rich, and the rest are in the Rich category.

Rank 196:

Mining 1915
Artfact 2908
Research 3998

I have about 3 slots left but I, like others, just cannot seem to find any good artifact planets.

I guess I'm the only one who has luck with finding good artifact planets, my last scan run I found an average 3x artifact terra that was unoccupied. and I thought I was doing horrible. looks like I've been doing good.

94:
Mining: 604
Artifact: 405
Research: 800

Artifact planets are so hard to find... I have a small 1x terra in my database that I need to get around to taking.
1/3 of my artifact produce is from 1 planet... Oceanic. Mega Colossal. 2x Mega Rich. My favorite.

Ehem? My alst scan run, found Ultra Rich Large Terra, with Ex Rich Research and Very Rich Mining(Unoccupied), As well as a Very Large Ex Rich no defense.And a Good crystalm which you know about hehe.
Unoccupied Very Large Ex Rich Research Oceanic as well.

I found an average 3x terra, a massive oceanic that's ultra rich a very large extremely rich oceanic, and a whole number of extremely rich planets but they're average and less.

my last scanning spree found 2 dysons, 2 gaias, 2 crystals, some decent toxics (VL-VR) and volcanos (VL ext Rich) (one was unoccupied), a massive 3x ocean(taken by me), about 20 terras, most of which are small megarich, some good deserts worth crystallizing. Lots of oceans took maybe 30 (they should be classed as Uncommon), 3 massive ext rich artifacts. lots of gases most of which are massive rich or VM ext abundant. and lastly about 10 Metallics where only 5 are worth taking and only 2 that i can take while the other 3 have too much def.
Alot of the planets i found belong to people rank 200 to 1000, so careful

I have completely finished the scanners research tier at Rank 210

got one more stage on it myself. Though before I spend more time scanning, I will need to slowly flux a whole lot of planets away.

I have 33 planets that range from very abundant to rich (also range from small to v large, so not worth terraforming). Out of the 290 planets that I own, these are my worst. And they are all artifact planets.

Depending on how many open planet spots you have (if you have 5-10 or more open planet spots, it's a lot of production that you are losing), it's a good idea to colonize these "bad" planets, in my opinion (since good arti planets are so difficult to find). For me these 33 planets produce around 4500 total resources an hour. Added benefit is that no one wants to invade them so, I only need to put a token defense on them.

Damn, How many planets did you start/finish with?

200 something to 458 planets.

When i found the dyson. My reaction :

Level 342
Minerals: 6106/hour
Artifacts: 7767/hour
Research: 8178/hour.

Am Vygoid, with 7 planet slots empty.
I have actually lost close to 1000 total resource production in the last fortnight due to some excellent planets being taken.

Feels bad man.

How many of you run cloak on your planets? That will cut into production of a planet...

I don't, but I run defenses.