Someone asked whether the "Deep Invest" button next to a quick action was just a bigger version of the same thing. It is not. Every deep action in the Nurture console opens its own real minigame, and until now the only way to know that was to click one yourself. So here are all five.
↑ Seed Life, on Earth
Seed Life is the only one-time action in the whole console. Drag four glowing seeds out of the dark and onto the waiting planet before they drift past it. Get all four planted and Earth ignites from zero, from Sterile straight into Microbial Life, live on the map behind the panel.
↑ Deploy Probe (and Reinforce Orbit), on any world
Deploy Probe sweeps a beam around a ring. A target zone sits somewhere on that ring, and you get three chances to click the instant the beam crosses it. No aiming, no position to hit, only timing.
↑ Harvest Resources, on any world
Harvest Resources surfaces crystals around the planet that fade after a few seconds each. Click them before they're gone, six total. Miss one and it's just gone, no penalty beyond the miss, and there's always another one surfacing somewhere on the ring.
↑ Stabilize Atmosphere, on rocky worlds
Stabilize Atmosphere starts four nodes in the wrong place entirely, scattered off the ring. Drag each one to its slot and feel it snap into place. Quietest of the five, and somehow the most satisfying.
↑ Ignite Core, on gas giants
Ignite Core heats six segments around the planet's core, each on its own separate clock. Click a segment while it's actually hot and it ignites for good. Click too early and nothing bad happens, the segment just isn't ready yet, so you keep circling the ring waiting for your moment.
Every deep action pays out more than the quick version of the same button sitting next to it. Playing them well is worth doing, not just worth watching. If you've been clicking straight past the deep buttons because the quick one felt like the efficient choice, that was never the intent. Go find out what's actually behind them.