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ORIGINAL: tuser

One thing that may cause some confusion if you aren't expecting it is that you start out with a rather high development value on your homeworld - however, once the starting stock of luxury goods runs out after a little while, your tax income may be reduced significantly.

ORIGINAL: DivePac88

I can't understand these Guys economies crashing, even in pre 1.0.2 patch. I have had no problems with the economies in any of my games. But I do follow one old rule from 'War in the Pacific', and that is to leave very little up to the AI. Which means that I do keep all State spending in my control (State ships, agents, and troops).

ORIGINAL: autarkis1967

I have been trying to understand the economics of the game and it is baffling me. Every game I play I eventually end up in the red and can't get out of it. Recently found out about the F12 economic screen so have been trying to use that to gauge whats going on but the numbers don't add up.

Started a new game as Human, Republic in sandbox mode. Really only had to deal with Pirates as no opponents where near me. Selected all my ships and had them retire to nearest shipyard and crash researched concurrent Beam. By the time beam was ready all my ships where gone and pirates where destroying my mining statios (the desired result). My economy was excellent at +25000 credits. Deleted or obsoleted all designs and recreated them with concurrent beam weapons so everything had guns (even freighters). Rebuilt explorers, construction ships and small fleet to protect everything (less than 20 escort class ships with around 650 maintenance each.) All still looks good 17-18,000 credits income. Added small starport to colony world and created a troop transport with modern advances I had made in the 3 years I had played to this point. One done took it and 1 other escort ship and destroyed all pirate bases known. Income still great.
Colonized my first world and created a medium starport cause it was far from home. While the starport was building I colonized a second world and began building a starport there. Suddenly my income goes negative. Not sure what caused it or why but looking at the screens my income is mear 29k while expenses are at 34k. My worlds say they are taxed at 22% and producing 90k income the 2 new colonies are at 0%. The F12 screen doesn't show ay sudden increase in spending to account for this. I had 6 mines 3 gas mine and 1 other (research base). 19 warships (lost a couple during the pirate fights), 4 construction and 4 exploration ships. The private sector looked great with 40k income but state income was suddenly red. One thing I noticed was corruption was 25% but even that doesn't account for the drop that drastic. Didn't save the game will try and redo it this evening to see if I can map out the issue.
So far I find the game intriguing but still needs a lot of work. Not having issues with refueling a learned the docking port was the key. Once I have concurrent beams I can beat the pirates up pretty easily and don't even have to guard bases if they are armed and have time to get their shield charged. Not sure why bases are not armed by default. Just can't get the economy to stabilize for now.

Turning of auto tax option. None of my planets were being taxed!