Kurobei

Need help on the game in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I'm relatively new to this game and I must be doing something wrong when it comes to ship costs. The average price of a starfighter is somewhere in the range of 500+ credits and my annual income at the highest was about 40bc. Could someone tell me how to keep the ship costs lower? I don't know what I did, but in one turn I had managed to get the cost of a fighter down to 8 credits, but that only happened once. Then the price shot back up a few hundred. If someone could give me some adv