1) You need to build econimic buildings (market centers, etc) en mass. Your taxes come from population, so that is important too. To keep your population happy, you need to build moral buildings (entertainment center, etc). You can hover your mouse over the approval rating of a planet to see what is effecting it. Some planets have bonuses to moral for various reasons and thus are better for raking in the cash.

These buildings must be balanced with a proper tax rate and any econimic/moral/food techs or resources that you have aquired.

2)You don't earn income from mining astroids. These mining bases only give you additional industry points. You don't have to pay for them however, so they don't really effect the bottom line.

As for mining the green econimc resources with starbases, those effect your overal economic power/rating and thus act as a civ wide bonus to all income.

3) A trade route has 2 freighters, I believe, that travel it. That is to say that an enemy must destroy two of them for the trade route to be canceled. That number may be dependent on the quality of the route. You can make multiple routes along the same path by sending multiple trade vessels from the same starting planet to the same ending planet.

thanks for clearing thoose things up

i got another question tho:

when talking to other races i never have an option to form an alliance with another race. there is just no entry in the treaty list for that, even tho i have researched alliances and actually the whole yellow tree.

do i need to build something for that option to become available ?

thanks.

Exactly.

Requirements for Alliance:

Both parties MUST have the Alliance technology.

The parties must have a 'Close' relationship. (the highest level)

Read https://www.galciv.wikia.com/wiki/Relation_Factors

In fact, I recommend the entire site.

If you have any more questions, email me at(scrubbed)