@Arcagnello: I'm extremely curious about your disgust threshold) I can't remember how much money I was making the last version, but 300k net from a single planet with ~20k defenses is pretty gross.
@AcaMetis I see, thank you. Yeah, the contrast with main colony screen showing "max size, no growth" throws me off.
Looking at demands of some of the 8-sized colonies, I think I'm better off without them. Getting enough drug production for mining already requires either an improvement or an alpha core (and an admin with Industrial Planning ofc). Might give it a shot when I'm done with this playthrough though, just to see how stupidly broken that'd be.