It's a large amount of work as it's currently designed to collect crystals and slowly and manually add then to mines to create and max out new factories.
I've been working really hard to get to where I'm at right now and spending a tremendous amount of time on it but I'm starting to really get my number up quite a bit. This is helping me to be able to produce more and more crystals for free essentially each day.
The ultimate goal is to eventually drop maxed out factories on all 1,245 of my mines which would make me a giant in the current player pool in this game.
There's still a long way to go but after today's work I'll be up to almost 260 now!