You can get bogged down in other clicker games by investing in the wrong upgrades if you don't pay attention to the specific increases in stats. To keep going in the right direction, you just need to wait to dig yourself out of the hole you've dug and focus on what's important.

Here, making those mistakes will get you fired, or worse - blow you and your rig to smithereens.

Fairly early in the game you should be able to buy something called the Impact Prediction Tool.

This is an extremely important tool with minimal resource cost to you which accurately projects the impact for upgrades - something that does not come standard.

Faceminer is a data mining rig management simulator. You care about how powerful your hardware and software are, and the supporting infrastructure needs that make it possible to mine so quickly.

The following HARDWARE upgrades roughly double your capacity for storage and processing, giving you a higher ceiling for your data mining load.

STORAGE
Your Frankenstein's Monster of a RAID-1000000 array of SSDs, hard drives, Containers, and more.
This will be important for allocation of Surveillance Camera storage as well as any supplementary Packaged Data bought on the Faceminer Market.

MEMORY
The true bottleneck of your rig's performance is the size of its workbench. More RAM, more calculations, more faces.

CPU SPEED
If the speed of your rig is too slow or too faster for the available amount of Facial Data at your disposal, you adjust your core count and clock speeds using this upgrade.

COOLING
Your rig is water-cooled, but it will soon require a larger hydro plant to sustain the sweltering heat developed from the size and speed of your mining.

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While you're managing these on-board factors, there's also the mounting pressure on the infrastructure itself which can build faster than you're able to see.

The gauges for your water and electricity usage, as well as the total emissions resulting from your operation update very slowly, so be sure you upgrade within your own means.

When you begin to use city power or water, or exceed your government ceiling on CO2 emissions, the graph will FLASH RED, indicating a deficit.

You can also check your profit margin to see what in particular is taking away from your total earnings. Again, try to keep this at roughly +95% to ensure you're making real progress.

In a given dataset, your earnings are based on the accuracy of picking real, human faces versus the cost accrued from your infrastructure over time.

You will soon enough have additional corporate quotas and government tariffs to contend with, so make sure you keep your profit margin at 100%.

You will be warned for going in the red in your account two times before your dismissal.

DO NOT LET YOUR RIG BE DESTROYED.

You can make a ton of cash building and maintaining the biggest facemining rig, but only if you're willing to take the necessary measures to ensure your success.

OTHER RIGS ARE SLOWER
And their processing and storage capabilities are going to waste. Assimilate these inferior systems to spread the tremendous bulk of your mining load.

REGULATIONS RESTRICT REVENUE
Reports of your corporate success externalizing environmental problems has Senate committees trying to make your mining more expensive. Buy off politicians with lobbying to stay above the tax line as best as you can.

YOU HAVE THE TOOLS
Corporate will continue to make available new, revolutionary tools to ensure your success. Plug into the global surveillance network to get your own Facemining data for free, and keep your system security high by forcing other rigs to stay online and defend against malware trying to stop your progress.