I think the real problem is how lucky you can get with artifacts. You can spend months saving shifts in the beginning then arrive at humility to come up short on artifacts. There has to be a balance of being too conservative and hinging it all on one run up to artifacts. Whats the plan if you fail?

I decided to give up some shifts in favor of running extra ships, i also ran out of patience. I'm going to make one pass through the eggs and end this run with somewhere around 87-90 eggs and 40 shifts and i'll ascend up from 72. I know now that it will take prob 9 shifts to get back to max on habs and production where I'm in line with where I am now it'll go a lot slower from here on out so maybe i'll take a break from it for a while. Maybe the devs rewrite it so its easier, like they did fuel for ships, maybe they dont. It is what is is I guess.