That SS is from Dread Lords. The stock markets all provide a 5% morale bonus and 30% economic bonus, which makes economy a piece of cake in DL. For my economic worlds, I just put 1 farm and the rest stock markets. I haven't really bothered to see if more farms (and morale buildings) would be better. But hey, 1 farm and all stock markets are the simplest and easiest way.
You don't need a mixture of buildings on each planet. Allow the high quality planets on the border of your empire with other races to be exclusively production worlds. That's where you want ships to come out and reinforce your fleets and deal with threats. Let the worlds that are far away from the border to be economic worlds with 1 farm and all stock markets or for research. I also have a low PQ planet that I use to buy and place Trade Goods buildings on. Neutrality learning centers ar
Well.. usually I play at Crippling, but most of the time the AI has ALL of its planets defended. The AI gets insane economic bonuses and all their worlds have factories and a starport (and yet the planet's income is still TWICE the expenses!) so they can, and do, build ships from all their worlds. Early in the game the AI builds a lot of defense ships and later on switches to capital ships ASAP. Perhaps you should elaborate on your "strategy" since I don't see how the AI is controlling
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