Testing economic stradegy

[neobacca]

So, i'm a big 4x fan and I have to say.. This is by far the best one i have /ever/ played. I have modded, tested, played and experimented with just about every major 4x, RTS, and space trading game there is - so that has to mean something.. I guess.

Anyways to the stradegy. So like most 4x games the stradegy is to get colonies, colonies, colonies and the lots of people making babies=lots of money.
Well seems, that is true here but to only an extent. I realized that the expand as big as possible technique does not work so well if you do not keep up with your resources. I was quickling finding myself barely able to keep a few capitols in end-game and I think i figured it out. I'm playing a game right now and so far i haven't dropped below +400,000 or 1mil in the bank

instead of colonizing every planet possible, let the auto colonize take it, or just colonize the biggest planets, and turn just about everything else into mines.
HOLY i got rich using that technique - I THINK.

Any advice would be appreciated

And great work with the game.

[torrenal]

I made a similar discovery recently. After a prolonged multi-front war (I lived, but had only a handful of mining stations left, and construction ships busy reparing ships, not building stuff), I built a new base on my frontier, then once it was nearing done (~5 components unfinished) ordered a refit of a fleet that queued up there, and would not finish. One construction bay was waiting on a merchant ship, the other just sat idle with a refit request. And no, the base did not progress toward finished. Then I got to thinking.... "Stuff needs supplies. What have I got..." and looking at the base stocks I promptly noted something not unlike 5k Krypton reserved, and 120 onhand... The bell goes off in my head... "perhaps I need mining stations...".

Looking at that list of supplies I also noted 2 odd things:
Supplies have a nation flag next to them, and if it's not my nation, the entire quantity was 'reserved'.

So this suggests that....
* Maintaining your mining bases is important.
* Trade embargo's can (potentially) hurt an opponent. They aren't just throwing words around.
* Killing the mining bases (and civilian ships) of your opponent can have lasting benefit, whereas blowing up a military ship or two only lasts until they buy a replacement.
//Torrenal