Explorators payment.

[Neoz]

simple question for those well past act 2, What is worth more? The 2 free Extractiums, or the 5k reputation?

[Lightmgl]

Reputation long term IMO theres more than enough extractiums by the time I finished the colony projects I had almost a dozen left over with no real use for them. Just build Giants and get all the exctractiums you can elsewhere and its more than enough. You can build Extractium Metallica too if its really bad.

[Lur Nen Rue]

take the 5 rep, but in the end it kinda doesn't matter
colony improvement later give you 3 option of 25% cargo of exploratos item that refills per 2 warp so you can max out explorator in the window where its safe for you to warp around.
and at the end of act 2 you plenty of extractiums , even 3 freebies its not worth more than 5k rep, 6 i would consider but 3 nah