Wednesday is surgery day so I'd like to have a few more aliens in each account but I know that is not likely to happen with the $1 account before then.

Good luck with your surgery! We will try to get birth autonomy in place before then. It won't quite get you to your 'always three birth slots' goal, but it will help.

Proposed birth autonomy (to be added to #glossary as soon as it is released into game):
Head of household will check household fertility and select a surrogate birth if funds or birth tokens are available and total household fertility is zero. (This will replace its autonomous quest that round).
Other household members will exercise birth autonomy if they have only one slot and funds are available (including tokens).

For the most part it leaves plenty of room for strategic selection, while creating a background tension that helps a player with birth tokens or liquid THREE always exist on the sage/dowager leaderboards.

In terms of the broader economy... it's generally better for everyone if aliens cycle through the sage board a little faster instead of a little slower, but we don't want birth autonomy to completely take over, either.