Hey Andy. Thanks for your input on the game.
We believe you ran into a bug with the values of the resources going up/down to slowly. It makes it so that you can gain too much/too little resources from certain parts of the game. We are working on a fix for this as best as we can. If it wants to be avoided entirely, the player can wait for all values to go up/down before they make another decision.
The player feedback when a planet is already drained of resources is currently not super clear, and we are hoping to fix that until the tuesday build.
We hope you'll give the game another shot starting this monday, with the showfloor judging starting on the 1st of June. Then we'll hopefully have fixed the issues, and you can directly talk to the team if you've got any further questions!