I managed to soft-lock myself by buying too many alients that would not fit in any of my whales ¦3
Yeah, you could easily increase the margin a bit closer to standard (10000% or so), otherwise it is sad to make these whales work for a peppercorn, and that heavily limits the game pace.
Nice set of features, though! It would be cool to see how far you can explore that concept beyond the jam version.