god-tier alpha: make an attempt at befriending anyone that has potential to be cracked (it's like investing early!) dont force the friendship, ensure its genuine interest, and if they end up doing cool things there's a chance they'll take u along for the ride i always thought this to be rather exploitative so I avoided it entirely, but it feels much better to add in a filtration process of sorts where you only proceed further if they seem befriendable do stuff for them early and maybe they'll do stuff for u later (key word: maybe)