Thank you for the kind words!
The resource are just a 70/30 chance on harvest to receive your "matter per harvest" on each healthbar depletion. When you recieve enough resources to launch a probe, it does it automatically. Threshold is the x/30 numbers .
Each score tick lets a percentage of probes be successful in also harvesting and replicating. Unfortunately the score logic in practice just depends on the universe probe amount, and matrer harvest upgrade on restart is just exponent in the 10^x part of the score. so not well balanced at all.
Tip for anyone reading this, just farm the benevolece event to rapidly raise the mph to launch dozens of probes off the first asteroid.
For my first game, I am content to have just finished and submitted. These comments are the icing on the cake