flamewolf393

So if it takes so long to get a stable economy or a full planet of buildings, then how is it the AI players manage to do it VERY quickly even on the easy difficulties? I will be struggling to get out of the red, and they will be sitting there with both planets full and months ahead of me in research, and tons of money in the bank. @LTJim: I mean that out of the entire galaxy, the ONLY habitable planets are the two in the home systems. No matter what settings I use this

Its not just limited to one galaxy. *Every* galaxy I make, no matter the settings, has only the two planets around each home system that are habitable. The starting survey ship is the only way I am surviving at all. I cant figure out how to make more. ... I think I might just go back to masters of orion 2.

I already have it set up like that. But even so that does not address the atrocious money flow...

The race I am playing right now I made to be pure money makers. maxed econ, trade, and diplomacy. I have bought out all the starting tech from all 9 races, I covered both my planets with econ centers, and I have 5 trade routes. I am still only making about 40 bucks a turn. All the guides say you need to expand early into more colonies, but how do you do this when the barren world colonization tech is so far down the line? Because *every* planet except the two around each home star is

Nope. Have not looked at the campaign at all yet.

It did *not* start me with any trade techs, when I researched the diplomacy prerequisite the trade tech tree lit up like I had gotten it, but I still cant build freighters and it still shows up as a researchable tech.