>>723622225
Perhaps it's changed since but any automated options where you leave your pals to do the work took like 5 times as long, and half the time they glitched out and couldn't properly pathfind to their task. Suffering through it manually meant I could explore and catch stuff at least a little that session. It didn't get bad until the mid 30 levels, but it became unbearable to me and I dropped that shit.
Also why the fuck would I want resource management in my monster battling game in the first place?