It makes sense because instead of spending 500 resources and waiting a few days , if you put in the time and effort to grind out those resources instead of slowly bank them up over those days where it ' s just researching anyway , you get it faster . Currently , 500 Resources , 25 days to grind the next 500 resources . 7 . 1 . 5 , 500 resources , but if you grind hard for them , you can have them faster than the 25 day timer . If you put in more work farming the resources you can get it faster . If you just start the timer , you can just slowly accumulate them and trickle in and by the time you need to put in another order you ' ve already got it . Hope that makes sense <| sep |> I nuke evvverything <| sep |> Same ! Weird how some ppl see it multiple times