wow. cant believe i didnt think of this. i've gotten freighters in trades and used them to start trade routes with the ai that gave em to me, but i never though of giving my own freighters away so that THEY would od the same to me. gonna try it. hope it works for me.
i've played a few couple full games (on small/tiny and realy low AI levels). currently playing a medium sized map with normal ais doing well i think. here's what i've picked up so far: 1. tech whoring will get you all the cash you could ever spend. (though i've heard that at higher dificulty it wont work, we'll see). 2. taxes directly affect morale and morale affects taxes, so raising taxes will often make you LESS money and vice versa. 3. keeping "spen
well, this thread explains why my economy was completely bombing by later in the game. i've played 2 games so far (just got the game), one on tiny/as easy as possible and one on small with the second easiest level for all IAs. both times, by the end of the game i was depending on extorting money (for tech mostly) from the AIs to keep my spending over 50% of taxes. i now understand that it was cause i should not have been building EVERY improvement on every planet. live
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