If you hold down a generator in automation, it lets you buy it until you reach the maximum amount, even if you don't have enough entropy/ideas for it
you need enough to buy at least a few of any given generator for it to work I think
#Holding down on a generator in automation bypasses entropy/idea requirement
lament sentinel
I noticed after I saw that the amount of ideas that martian factory needed was way more than I could get in a day