Vasari not good economists

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Anyone who is good at playing the Vasari - what is your starting strategy.  The ships are very expensive.  The downside definately seems to be the high cost and the slowly developing economy.  I always end up trying to get my income coming in before upgrading fleet size and warfare research, etc.  Anyone else have ideas?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
In SP, the secret is to play the black market. Vasari have two things that make them better at metal and crystal than anyone else: their scouts can capture independent mining rocks, and they get early buffs to resource extraction (it's only 1000 credits to buff both metal and crystal by 10%). So put the stuff up for sale on the black market to score cash to fund your shipbuilding. I generally only insta-sell it when I really need money quickly; otherwise on larger maps where there are numerous potential black market customers, I use the two buttons at the bottom of the black market columns to adjust the price and earn a lot more cash for it, even if it doesn't come right away.

-- Retro
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I do about the same thing as Retroboy. However, I also use a tech called "Wreckage auto-salvage" which can be found in the empire tree level three (I believe). Once you have this leveled up, all you need to do is a quick raid to one of the enemy's planets and take out a few orbital structures. If they bring in a cap, more money for you. The only downside to this is that you need to figure out your own strategy for keeping your fleet alive.
One other tip: Use the Evacuator's "Drain Planet" ability. It's a quick way to do a ton of damage to a planet, and get a ton of resources to boot. However, it takes some time to get...
Hope this helps, and good luck on Vasari!
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Vasari have crazy economy right now! Do not go for tradeports as vasari! Waste of time and resources. If you are on a map where you can get tradeports before fighting someone, then you can get RA instead! Vasari early econ is all resources! Scout like crazy and get every neutral resource you can, sell excess resources! It's easy to calculate that 1 metal or crystal a second can yield you about 2.5 credits a second when sold! So on a fast income level a neutral gives u .66 a second, thats equivalent to 1.65 credits a second! Thats more than early tradeport! And to top it off if it's crystal you save on buying crystal! Since early on you usually buy crystal for research and research buildings.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Good stuff

Use the Evacuator's "Drain Planet" ability. It's a quick way to do a ton of damage to a planet, and get a ton of resources to boot. However, it takes some time to get...Hope this helps, and good luck on Vasari!
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For real! Not only do you drain resources but you kill the planet fairly quickly.

It's my new crack cocaine... :) 
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
The ships might be more expensive but they are more powerful to balance it out. Its not like you are making ships that are twice as expensive as other races but equally as powerful. That can be both a good thing and a bad thing depending on how you look at it. In the end its just preference.

As far as economy is concerned I never have any problems with vasari. They can research both metal and crystal with one tech which ultimately saves you money. Generally i end up with far more metal than i can actually use and by selling it on hte black market it balances out fairly well. Also like the other people said autosalvage to gain resources from ships and structures you destroy or your own ships and structures that get destroyed and the drain planet ability can both add to your total eco.