Operator Level

[jed]

How do you advance the operator level? The tooltip says to keep delivering past milestone shapes, but does that mean every shape from every milestone, so you have to avoid tearing down older builds as you advance?

[etwas_w00h]

I am playing on relaxed mode, so yeah, you get research points when you continue to produce the last shape to hit milestone. The first one was when unlocking paint, you see a small flower/star next to the right arrow. that's the shape you can continue to build to advance operator level. In the vortex you then see a violet flower instead of a green checkmark for the shape.

As I'm playing on the easiest difficulty, I just built additional platforms, extractors etc. and moved the factories there. I don't know how the limits in the higher difficulties are.

[jed]

Thanks for that clarification. It helps to know that there's a start level for that (Fluids and Paint). I was concerned about having to maintain lines from the really early levels, which would have been a problem.