I have a question, i'll search through this page for answers and probably eventually find something, but i'm going to ask here first, how the frak, do i generate more money? I've been in debt for a few years and have started economising by cutting back on ship building, changed my +25% factory administrator to a +25% wealth one, etc, in order to stop being in debt, but my otehr efforts to generate cash aren't as immediately effective.
My colony on mars doesn't seem to be generating trade, it's only 20 million in pop atm, but i'm not seeing a significant increase in income, does the colony need a spaceport or something to increase income? Also i've researched that civilian econ +20% tech a few times and it always looks like my expenses go up by 20% as well, or maybe it's just my research doing it and i haven't noticed.
Also, financial centers, LOL, woefully inefficient, quick calculation shows that i could build 80 a year as long as my resource supplies hold out (they won't) OR, i could build 9600 infrastructure a year , and which would allow mars to hold 44 million more population. On the surface it seems good, the centers/each million population both make 2.4 million income each, so the infrastructure would make half the income, BUT as mars gets more population it's trade income would go up, also i have millions of easily accessable duranium on multiple mining colonys, whereas uridium and vendarite i have only a few hundred k on only 2 colonies.
EDIT: TLDR, i dont seem to be generation any trade income, do i need to build anything to get trade, or is it entirely dependant on the whim on civilian freighters?
EDIT EDIT: So ifinished a spaceport and now i seem to have trade income, praise the Traders!