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[Mini]

You can see how much money you have (including an indication of whether it is going up or down) at the top of the populations window, which also has a tab to show you exactly how much money you are getting, where you are getting it from, how much money you are spending and what you are spending it on. You can also spend money on a direct injection into a civilian shipping line.

[Metalax]

You pay 1 wealth for each point of contruction/research/etc. Research, industry construction and shipyard modification(assuming you keep continual capacity expansion on) tend to be the biggest expenses.

I find I only tend to run into cashflow issues if I neglect to research the expand civilian economy techs at the same time as I research the improved research/construction/etc techs. Starting from a conventional start also gives you a big cash reserve as the early years you usually have minimal expenses while the population grows and pays tax.

[RedKing]

Hmm...I'll have to test that because it's indicating an infinitesimally small number of geosurvey points generated.

I've found them to be useful for a first-wave scout ship. Put four or five down on the bodies most likely to have minerals and get your results in a few months.

Razzgafrazzin....didn't realize buoys were totally bugged in 6.00 (which is what I have installed). Build cycles completely stop if one is deployed. There goes that game...

[Imp]

Thanks for the explainations guys!

[Flying Dice]

Hmm...I'll have to test that because it's indicating an infinitesimally small number of geosurvey points generated.

I've found them to be useful for a first-wave scout ship. Put four or five down on the bodies most likely to have minerals and get your results in a few months.

Razzgafrazzin....didn't realize buoys were totally bugged in 6.00 (which is what I have installed). Build cycles completely stop if one is deployed. There goes that game...

IIRC you should be able to detonate them. Though that might only work for missiles with warheads.

[Karlito]

Nope! All missiles can be remotely detonated from the combat window.

[Edmus]

I feel I have finally overcome the start of the learning curve in this game but I am unsure how to proceed, I have some terraformers on mars, a small battle group and a bunch of scouts zipping around. I am currently making some long-ranged scouts to go through the Jump point things. Any advice on colonies/industry?

[Jacob/Lee]

While terraforming colonies with insufficient infrastructure to support the populace (or not enough military ships), drop some ground troops. As unrest rises, productivity drops until your colony is producing literally no minerals at all and terraforming stalls.

[Metalax]

Don't make too many populated colonies at once if you are relying on civilian freighters to supply the infrastructure that is produced as a trade good, they have a tendancy to focus on one colony leaving the others to whither. Also remember when you start making colonies in other systems, civilian ships require a jumpgate to be built on both sides of the connecting jumppoints in order to start trading.

Have around 20% of your industry continually producing more factories, 20% producing mines/automines, and 20%-40% producing research labs, with the remainder producing whatever else you currently need.

Note that if you want to terraform in a reasonable timeframe, you will need a lot of terraformers and research the terraformer speed techs.

[PTTG??]

So I'm running a probably over-ambitious LP game. It will have two forum-managed sides and I'll try to run it as a GM more than a player. Let me know what you guys think.

The main thing about it is that it starts with near-maximum technology, so it will hopefully be fast and active.

[varsovie]

Have around 20% of your industry continually producing more factories, 20% producing mines/automines, and 20%-40% producing research labs, with the remainder producing whatever else you currently need.

Weird, I prefer to concentrate all my research labs on Earth, this way I don't have to micromanage them that much.

[Shooer]

He is talking about his HW production.

[Metalax]

Yeah, homeworld construction is what I was talking about as it takes a good period of time to get any appreciable level of construction going on another colony, by which time you will usually be starting to specalize your colonies.

[Flying Dice]

I'd say at minimum ~25% of your industry should always be churning out labs, at least until you hit around 600 labs. Honestly, I'd never really recommend doing research anywhere but your HW either, unless you've got RP motivations for it.

[Shooer]

Or your expedition finds 5 labs in a ruins (out of a 26 facility ruins).  If I run into labs from ruins I usually turn the colony they are found on into where I research Bio tech, since it's usually 1 lab and I don't consider genetics that great out side of RP.  To get far enough that you could colonize worlds that can't be terraformed to fit normal humans/your race it's pretty far down the tech tree.  Also adding terraforming to the tree doesn't make me wan't to research the original bio techs any more than I did before, just added a reason for me to use my bio scientists in my normal games.