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Amorphus said:work towards getting some excavation sites after researching the deep digging tech, and those will give you some alien arts. Once you get 200 of those and you get the required research amount, you can research alien language tech, which will let you build aluminum gens.

The alum gens are expensive, so make sure you have tons of gold gens and basic chip factories. I would try to get at least 1000 of each. Also, build an excavation site whenever possible. It's overkill, but that's what is going to push you through the alu bottleneck. It's better to spend more time in the beginning of the game building tons of less advanced stuff than it is to spend lot's of time at the end taking forever just to build one advanced structure. If you have tons of basic chip factories, which don't take much to build, you can accumulate tons of chips by the time that you get to building alu gens. Don't worry about wasting space as long as you have at least a large map, since you'll replace all of those factories with 10-20 alien chip factories that still produce 10x more than what those tons of factories produced. So attempt to fill up your space in the beginning with less advanced stuff, because it will help you in the long run and you can free that space up later. Use the space that you have earlier on to the fullest that you can.