For new players the first Ascension including the second and third maybe the fourth its not a big deal to reach the required level. But for people in Ascension 6 and up it is a big deal to reach required level. Cause it takes and absurd amount of time. Unless this part of the game is intentional. If that is the case then its ok. Nevermind.
But if it is no I would like to propose if its possible and it doesnt take you that much time in codding, a prestige skill point worth 5 points so new players dont get it right away, even an toggeable option ( hidden until u reach A5 at least or not) could be if u decide to, to make an entire battle (all 100 boxes of a level) to be done in seconds. Like the game will recognize the difference between yours and enemys fleet and modules in too and a bar will start filling according to this difference and just get the resources the map offers. If the difference is enourmous the bar would fill in a second, but if there is a difference but still for thousands the bar would progress slower.
(U could add another branch of Skill points named "spy", that could tell u how much resources ull get by defeating the enemy. Or it could be under searching.)
Cause well an A7 player that can unlock titan in the very first 10 levels its quite lets say irritating to repeat all the process all over again when in fact hse did it 7 times already. This player already knows it ,.. hse just want to reach the next ascension and get over it. But it hse cant cause there are 120 levels to pass before doing them.
Of course this could bring some momentary problems. Battles provide Habittale space resources robot c. and research which these are quite necessary for progressing. Research would bring the most problem of all i believe cause if u get all of it all of a sudden and u dont have the researches u dont want in backlog this will get researched and worst of all if its not Autosorted. A solution for this would be to "Program" which researches u want before ascending so in next ascension, once unlocked these unwanted researches will be put inmediately in backlog so they dont get researched not wasting research resources in them.
Surely there are others things to consider but i cant think of them.