Here's another idea for countering it - Second time and onwards, it's a Quick Time Event. Or hell, after the QTE you then have to spam-click to wrestle her for the gun. Also while I know this wouldn't match the usual clicker gameplay, it'd be cool to have occasional minigames pop up. Imagine like, you suddenly see some ping pop up on the planet, with a random city name or something, and if you click it you suddenly jump into a minigame where you're taking the city personally by walking through or driving a tank through or whatever. And if you beat a wario-ware-esque minigame or something, you get a bunch of stardust and destruction points. Kind of like Golden Cookies from Cookie Clicker but with more skill involved. Obviously this may be way too much work though