Null Essence just sucks.
It's literally "I paused the game 'cause you weren't looking at it" until you deal with it long enough to get to "I paused the game 'cause you weren't looking at it, and now I incentivize you not to look at the game by 5%".
It's actually the WORST feature of an already bad game design. The "don't play my game, so that when you do play my game it won't suck"-feature. That's literally all it does for the player.
It's the worst.
how so? because the way i see it YOU TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER WHEN YOU SLEEP ONLY TO RETURN IT BACK ON AND WOALAH YOU HAVE NEARLY MAX NULL ESSENCE JUST FROM SLEEPING YOU IDIOT. KEEP IN MIND I HAVE THE GAME RUNNING 90% OF THE DAY. IT WASNT UNTIL I WAS GETTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF PRISTINE LIGHT THAT I DIDNT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER BUT THAT 10x BOOST FROM NULL ESSENCE IS LOOKING LIKE I WOULD REALLY NEED IT RIGHT NOW SINCE MY QUINTESSENCE IS AT A NEAR STANDSTILL AND I HAVE SECTORS THAT NEED SECURING. THAT NULL ESSENCE IS LOOKING VERY FUCKING NEEDED RIGHT ABOUT NOW AINT IT?