Great Game, would suggest of possible an option so that you can buy say 100 intergalatic consortium's and it will buy all the prerequisites.
So it would calculate the number of each item required to meet the target then start at the lowest item first and buy the required amount of that, so local service company would be purchased first , then each corrosponding item until it can buy 100 of the item you want
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