So I was thinking...
currently I can melt iron ore into iron plates, then iron plates into steel
and
I can melt copper ore into copper plates but not copper plates into something else

It feels like it would make sense to have a "higher tier" of copper too. So... here´s a bit from wikipedia ...

Okay well the main thing is still that I really think the game would benefit from having more story and longer campaign(s)

There is a too large gap from the goal of the last tutorial campaign mission to the freeplay goal of launching a rocket (and especially what is required for constant multiple ...

That... sounds almost unrealistic. It took me like 10 minutes for each % of the rocket completion :D

Also, I had big struggle setting up several outposts that I would need to get enough resources as my tank with explosive shells seems to get eaten alive by them blue aliens... maybe I need to look ...

Oh I see. I was too scared to try the robots thing so far and also I seemed to have multiple robot related things researched but didnt find yet how to actually make the robots themselves but I will try and figure it out. (I actually managed to launch the rocket too after a looong game of slow ...

Right now I think the game could almost be released as a finished game with the features it has right now if only it had an actual non-tutorial campaign. Something between 10-20 scenarios long campaign should be fine. Maybe it also is missing a little bit content for end game like doing more with ...

Okay so in one corner of my base I´ve made a block of several manufacturing plants, inserters, power lines and belts, it was pretty compact as such. The point was to make a blue science bottle. I needed quite a few buildings for that. I planned it such that it was all on one side of my major ...

Just played through the two tutorial campaigns and started a freeplay. I´m just getting my oil economy started again and about to produce the first blue bottle. I´m also making concrete highways from main factory to oil pumping and mining outpost areas... Then... I noticed that I was sort of jamming ...