ok, I figured it out with the social production. While I had allocated 15% of the budget to social production, apparently the planetary production was small enough that this did not result in any monthly progress. When I adjusted the social slider higher, production resumed.
Finally, some anomaly void aliens/space worms are going around blowing up my expensive starbases still in the early game, and it seems there is nothing I can do to defend against them without spending years on military projects? They blew up my survey ship as well and it seems that I have no social or military projects that are capable of winning against them at this time? The anomaly beast has an attack of 11 & defense of 4, while my best ship (the survey ship) has stats of 1&1. [Messa
Next question. Colonizing only 15+ planets has definitely put me in the black (1800+ credits), but I am still having trouble building social improvements. I try to build "soil enhancement" & manufacturing centers, but I soon get "no resources" listing with no progress being made towards construction, even though now I am seemingly wallowing in dough. A review of the online manual also provided no information on what the required but unlisted "resources" that are apparently necessary
THANK YOU to everyone for the information! Yes, I was colonizing some sub-15 planets. I certainly don't recall seeing any documentation on this (My new CD version didn't seem to come with a PDF manual, and the online manual doesn't seem to mention the maintenance expense). Thanks everyone for the tips. will definitely try these wonderful suggstions. Falconhurst
As a newbie just trying out this program, even on "easy" or "cakewalk" I am having major problems with economy. I have federalist gov. and +10% economy, and still can't avoid running into big debt. I have only 2 ships on the map right now (1 colony & 1 scout) and my economy is still running in the red. I have colonized about 5 planets but have not built any social or other improvements that require maintenance. Yet even with optimized taxes and NO improvements requiring maintenance, the econ
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