more money

This is a handy guide to get you making more money.

What to do for terran

Manual/Races

• When starting check the race modifiers you'll find that the more positive modifiers are the best ways to make cash for that race. Build up your infrastructure and spend turns, try to work off of how your homeworld was managed to start with. Then as you gain credits build a few scouts and explore for another planet and do the same to that one. Disband your scouts after you find a useable planet. Most terrans focus on comercial research and infrastructure, but you can make money with tax/population or agriculture and selling the food.
  
• Research all ships so that if you are enslaved you will have starbases to break free. (keep in mind a lot of slavers will let you go if you ask nice), at this point I would recommend researching up to Planetary Cluster 2
  
• Look at the Planet types in the manual .. you will notice that forests and u fertiles are the best providers of food, if you get one of those use it soley for food to feed your population. Until then make enough food to feed them or buy food from the market if you can afford it. Any food below $10 in the market could be considered cheap.
  
• To see what you empire consumes and produces click on income, and from there production of food and goods.
  
• You can also do what they call strip-mining to make some quick credits, this is where you explore for high ore planets and build on mining and use turns until all ore is extracted, then plunder the planet and repeat until you have a good amt. of ore, then go sell it on the market. Do this while in damage protection.
  
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Ship upkeep is the main reason for loosing money, if you are in damage protection and don`t need your fleet make sure you disband the remaining ships.

Edited by Viper on 2006-05-27