Erm, assuming you are on the right forum, there's a number of ways to increase CREDITS.

1. Make sure you have your planet/asteroid development maxed out, having a planet/asteroid without developing it results in a NEGATIVE credit flow.
2. More pop means more taxes. Make sure you research the pop increases.
3. Research and build trade centers on major planets. These have a BIG impact on credit income. Also, depending on race, research the trade improvements.
4. Explore your planets/asteroids. Some have bonuses to increase trade/pop.

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He meanes the Trade space stations available to the TEC

theoretically, there are even more ways.

* collect bounties
* fulfill ai missions (some give resources)
* sell resources to the black market either directly or indirectly
* some race abilities like the sova embargo or the vasari salvage reclamation tech. at tier 3 it gives your resources if you destroy any enemy capship or structure.

but you should be fine with the options already mentioned, these are mostly secondary sources (though if you are one of few players to have crystals of metal, you can make a LOT of credits with the black market)

Don't under estimate the black market. With a good system of refineries, you should have a large excess of metal and crystals. Watch the black market and sell a bunch when prices jump from some one buying, you should make a neat profit.

It will show the amount you put up, and then that amount will decrease as it's bought. Of course, AI/players need to click the "buy" buttons to actually buy from it



It should be in your gameconstants file, I'm at work so I don't remember which folder it's in. Someone else can probably find it for you

It's a little different, yeah. The Advent's trade port can "switch modes" to function as a resource booster. Ideally, if you're low on crystal you want to build a few on an ice planet and turn on their refinery mode so they give you a boost to crystal production on that planet.

So, what if the market price is very high. Does that mean I need to set my price to 150%? I've noticed I can put it up to 150% and it still says I'm the lowest available resource.

As for tradeports, I wish you could select ALL the trade ports you own, all 50 or so I had, and then switch them to resource boost. That would have given me an absolutely insane jump in crystal/metal, but reduced my income to almost nothing or negative. As it stands I think you can only select the ports within 1 planet.


I didn't know you could do multiple trade ports until last night. Once I found that out I realized just how much you could do with economy in this game. I seriously put 4-6 trade ports in all non-front combat cities and my income went through the roof. It was so addicting seeing my trade output 2x or more that of my planet output.

Plus, as advent, desert planets are now more useful then terran planets. They can hold 36 logistic slots where terran planets only hold 24. Thats 9 trade ports on one planet. Take into account that each trade port brings in I believe 1.6 credits/sec, that's 14.4 credit/sec. The desert planet also gets 7.5 when fully populated with all tech upgrades. So, desert = 21.9 credit/s, terran = (10 + 9.6) = 19.6. I guess its not huge, but its nice that a desert planet is so useful for advent.

Not to mention advent desert planets as front line planets rock. You can put up 5 frigate yards and a capitol yard and still have room to spare with culture and be able to produce huge fleets in now time. I was using the advent's best tactical weapon, the "culture bomb, laser of love, w/e" and shooting it at a distant homeworld. After I hit it about 8 times, the planet's allegiance dropped to 0% and blew up as well as the rest of his planets. I didn't know it would have that effect, nothing like blazing some hippy culture bombs and blowing their minds.

Actually, try playing it before you say its "Not enough" -- that is a lot of ships, and you'll find it difficult to afford building that many, much less more.

Huh... I never noticed that on my huge games

If you mouse over your credits, not only will it show you your economy, but if you zoom out to see the entire map, it should also highlight what I believe to be your longest continuous trade route.

I am confused about this too. Once I build the trade port, do I need to do anything with it. Is it all automatic at this point or do I tell it a route to follow? Should I be building lots of trade ports at the same planet, or just a couple at each planet? What about at asteroids?

Paint ships red. More dakka.