Good point on going bit by bit. It's the safer option for sure, but once the other duckling types come into play it's hard to get a good score that way. Hopefully that adds some risk / reward.
And yeah, I have no clue what's up with that network access request but I've seen it pop up for a few streamers, too. My hunch so far is that it's because of Wwise. I've made plenty of Unity games that didn't have that issue but the one time we try building with Wwise it's asking for access for some reason.
Thanks for playing!