influence starbase tourism

Where does the tourism income come from?

In the last game I played with the Beta release version, I had 70 bc of tourism income, but I had no starbases yet. Then when I started to deploy influence starbases, I noticed that the maintenance fee of 5bc was being charged, but no tourism income increase was registering. I was under the impression that influence starbases would increase your tourism income!

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Mystikmind

Join Date 06/2004

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Tourism income is too tiny to be relevant, just forget about it.

I don't know why the devs even bothered putting it in the game?? waste of time that could have been used on somthing relevant.

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Tourism depends on 2 things. Galactic population, and the % of the area of the map you control (your area of influence). Each 1 billion pop generates 1 bc; you get your influence % of the total tourism $ generated in the galaxy.
As for starbases, if they extend your AoI, they'll increase your tourism revenue. That increase might not be worth the 5 bc maintenance though.

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Thanks Iceman.

I had read that each influence starbase was like advertising, and therfore would increase your tourism income.

But if not, then it seems like tourism is a waste of time and effort then.

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