Hi!
on all my colonies it shows that im spending alot more than I actually am.
The spending on colony screen
includes maintenance. So when you read spending 28, is that composed of:
- 12 BC maintenace for Initial colony,
- 2 BC maintenance for one Factory,
- 7 BC for paying Factory and Initial colony social production (building another factory, social spending slider at 33%) and
- 7 BC for funding Initial colony's research production (research slider at 66%).
What the real problem is, is
bonus production payment. It's not shown anywhere on the colony screen, but can easily be twice or three times the payment for a base production. So you see a planet produces 150 RPs, but you see you're paying for the whole planet only 80 BC. The cost of about 35 BCs of bonus production is hidden (you pay only a half of bonus production, the other half is free). But 35 BCs is not a problem. Only once I've had a real monster-research planet with the research output of ~6000 TPs. But the colony screen has shown I'm spending only ~900 BC for it.

IMO THAT qualifies for "spending a lot more that I acutall am".

BR, Iztok