Thanks for the kind words! i may have spent to much time on the QoL stuff to be honest haha.
I totally agree about the cauldron menu staying up, there is no reason for it to not be up all the time. I had it on my todo list to make it a toggle but I just never got around to it.
I appreciate you taking the time to play it though! Were able to beat it? If so, on what difficulty? I spent a lot of time on the AI and I was just curious if the balance was good for the levels of difficulty. Speaking of which, the menu screen is a full blown simulator (cpu vs cpu), which is how I was testing the enemy AI. I should of added the original mode, which I call INSANE mode lol, it was brutal! The computer is way faster at resource swapping then us mere humans :-D