To quote Moltres from a previous post: (note - be careful not to go over 5000 PR when exploring for planets, that will open you up to attack from other empires)
I assume you are a Terran. So here is a basic Commercial Income plan to start out.
->Economic -> Research -> Commercial (Click/Research it till it becomes Level 20)
Then click "Manage Colonies" ->click "E.1371"
(Something that looks like a bunch of numbers together)
Built Housing, Agriculture and Commercials by typing in numbers in the boxes and pressing "Built"
a. This allows you to built more things on your planet (housing)
b. This produces more Food for you (agriculture)
c. This produces more Money for you (commercial)
You would thus want to have a proportional amount of each of them.
(You would want to have just enough housing to fill your planet ; just enough agriculture so that you make a decent amount of food per turn and focus the rest to commercial)
Exploring is a good way to increase your total land to build more Commercial.
Click "Build Ships"-> Click "Viator" ->Built 25 of them
Then click "Explore" and start exploring for 6 planets now you got new planets to work with do the same and built Housing, Agriculture and commercial on them.
(Warning: Remember to click "Manage Fleet" and Disband/Destroy all your ships after you found the planets by typing the amount of ships you have in the boxes and then press "confirm")
To quote Delioche from a previous post, do the following in the order given. As long as your income per turn is higher that the debt interest, you can slowly get out of debt.
-Disband fleet (if income still negative...)
-Sell your stuff on the market (if income still negative...)
-Get some friends to use positive dineros on you (if income still negative...)
-Beg your slavemaster to tribute you. (If slavemaster refuses or you do not already have one - do note, asking somebody to enslave you is against game rules ...)
-You are then p