The reason I mention commerce is that it gives 'commerce bonuses' at two points that I believe, don't understand the exact mechanics and they're opaque as far as I can tell, but it seems to make zone traders more profitable and this kind of funding a lot more sustainable

I like government a lot and ...

For creating markets heres what I've got going on in my game right now. Earlyish but I've got a nice little secondary market going

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Main market for the first SHQ, generates ~9000 credits a turn that I can snatch up selling metal rares and then fuel radioactives or ...

"On the other hand, you have a stock of 300K metal and 100k rare metals. You throw 30K fuel, 17k energy and 8k food per turn in the trash."

It doesn't go in the trash, if you're producing stuff in excess of your capacity to store it what happens mechanically is the excess gets sold on the market ...

I just noticed this happening in my current game. The AI would turn some airbase into a new zone then merge it back into the original zone every other turn.

I noticed because all of a sudden 40,000 people would migrate from my capital to this new AI town every few turns. I sent spies to check the ...

Whats your commerce profile? How rich is your own population? My sense is most market demand comes from your own pops, if you make them richer maybe you'll get more demand

alternatively restrict foreign supply by putting huge import tariffs on everyone else. you can also open new markets, get ...

Hello Kylejack,

You can take yourself a look in Debug mod at tables 70 and 73 named "Colony Major Events" and "Dissolution Major Events"
Here is a quick summary based on my interpretation:

Colonization Phase: Events in this phase seems to affect mainly :
City Population:
Mining Population ...

The individual narrative events in the colonization and collapses phases of planet generation have a big effect on how planets generate but their individual mechanical effects are opaque. For example, planets that generate with unusually large populations usually have events about farmers settling ...

Three state start will make it easy, that's a huge advantage. Try one and no starting armies

I like to play on very dry maps but I've never seen a private water economy spring up. I just played a 0 water planet for the first time and I actually did see one happen and it was cool. Can you tweak water so that the private economy for water kicks in even when a planet has some water? Maybe add ...

I like playing with 20 meter apex predator Kaijus for fauna and it’s not unusual for one or two of the starting majors to get overrun

supreme command council generally assuming their stats and background are good for that, they'll level admin quicker and get you more PPs. somewhere else if you have that covered well enough and the leader's stats would be better for something else

comedy SHQ leader for insane +300 percent combat ...

i noticed this too the other day, i assumed it was opaque mechanics working in the background. maybe something like a leaders willpower or wit stats having some small effect

Yes. This is a major fault in the game. Having to dismantle your logistics system in mid-late game to upgrade is unrealistic and often impossible without suffering disastrous defeats or delays. In the real world you simply upgrade existing rail or lay new rail, without bothering the existing ...

I like to tick everyones pay up 1 credit each game turn, it only costs 1 PP to change salaries and giving everyone the smallest possible raise every turn gives a nice constant happiness boost

I just dropped my directors salaries from ~60 credits a turn to 10 though and something unexpected happened ...

the ai i just attacked had good ornithopters or whatever the flapping wing planes are called. they didn't use them because i had a motorized flak gun unit (they're good for hard attack in large calibers early game but expensive) but i heard someone talking about a youtube aar where the ai was using ...

Its very good and my problem is getting the syndicate to spawn and stick around when I want it to, not getting rid of them

I’m not saying what it is :3


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Ok :3

When the syndicate and the corporation are both active in a city they interact in various ways. One of the ways is that it appears to raise the corporations savvy trait every turn. This seems to be the most important ...

I have them all turned on, but i have to be honest, i dont really understand how they impact... i like the cults, because of the extra cards they give, but i dont understand the negative that comes with it.. or never 'feel' it.

Corporations... sure, they tell me they take control and i get unrest ...