hes not a noob as much as someone that only says half the sentance... you dont recycle the ships you make very cheap ships designed to be recycled for He or metal and sell them on the AH for gold. A normal He scrap ship goes for 50-70 gold per and you usually sell them by the 100k
there is a graphic update to upgraded structures the only problem is its for like lvl 1-3,4-6, and 7+ so you see no difference between lvl 7 and lvl 20
sadly your base defenses are only good at preventing the single ship stack fleets from swarming you. any real fleet can easily block all damage the base defenses can put out.
bob the login daily requires you to refresh your browser to "log in" and the stockpiling quest requires you to harvest your warehouse 3 times. like the other guy said if its green its in progress. also the only part of the daily you actually have to click on is on the "daily quests" button near the top and click the green rewards.
you have 2 options for the warehouse either level it up or train the skill in the logistics research tab that adds up to 1mil to the warehouse. at lvl 17 with that skill maxed my warehouse has 2.5mil in it and it takes almost a day to top out
as a flash developer I don't control where they go. I'm pretty sure it's kong causing the issue.