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Just got the game a few days ago, and while I want to love it I can't seem to get anywhere at all. Every game but 1 I've played so far I've ended up just quitting because I am a bajillion credits in debt and can't build/research anything.
I've tried building trade centers on my planets, but they don't seem to give that much money even if you upgrade them. I even tried setting up 'cash planets' with lots of farms+entertainment but the populations grow so slow they don't seem to help. My best best so far is jacking the taxes way up and building a bunch of entertainment centers, but even that has iimits and it takes up a bunch of tiles on my plants (and the small ones that only have 2 - 3 tiles tend to get very unhappy).
I was reading another thread that talked about how spare social spending was literally wasted money, but if i set that slider down then my stuff takes forever to build, expecially on new planets. I'm still out the cash too - it just goes into research or into building my ships now, which is better then wasting it I guess.
The one thing I have not tried alot of is trade routes - the few I did set up only seemed to give like 5 or 6 bc per month which is not even close to solving my money troubles (is per month a typo, supposed to be per week? or is it really like 1bc per turn?).
getting pretty frustrated with playing the first bit over and over, I'd like to see some bigger ships and fancier guns but as it is, I'm in the poorhouse even before the computer gets them to use against me (and it is usually far ahead of me).
I've tried building trade centers on my planets, but they don't seem to give that much money even if you upgrade them. I even tried setting up 'cash planets' with lots of farms+entertainment but the populations grow so slow they don't seem to help. My best best so far is jacking the taxes way up and building a bunch of entertainment centers, but even that has iimits and it takes up a bunch of tiles on my plants (and the small ones that only have 2 - 3 tiles tend to get very unhappy).
I was reading another thread that talked about how spare social spending was literally wasted money, but if i set that slider down then my stuff takes forever to build, expecially on new planets. I'm still out the cash too - it just goes into research or into building my ships now, which is better then wasting it I guess.
The one thing I have not tried alot of is trade routes - the few I did set up only seemed to give like 5 or 6 bc per month which is not even close to solving my money troubles (is per month a typo, supposed to be per week? or is it really like 1bc per turn?).
getting pretty frustrated with playing the first bit over and over, I'd like to see some bigger ships and fancier guns but as it is, I'm in the poorhouse even before the computer gets them to use against me (and it is usually far ahead of me).