Advent's biggest economic advantage is the use of the Progenitor Mothership's colonize ability that reduces upgrade costs significantly.  Since these population ('infrastructure') upgrades are so expenseive, it alone can give Advent an economic advantage over any race!

Advent eco is based araund the 20% culture bonus with allure of unity.

If you want insane credit income, you need to upgrade planets, and not rely soly on tradeports.

Also getting one of 4 mines ice and metal planets inside 90%++ allegiance range and dedicat it to concentradet exstraction will get you all the metal and ice you will ever need.

With advent, its possible to build make shift economy from just 2 civic labs.

You just have to use the progenitor with lvl 3 colonise, and upgrade all your planets cheep, then culuture them up.

advent culture increas shield mitiagetion

TEC is AM reg and vasari is damage.

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Don't forget scrying, and you only need 3 temples for that.  Expert metal and crystal bonus are quite common, and also trade or population bonus.  Explore planet is so cheap when you have a level 2 colonize plus scrying. 

That's the TEC culture bonus. Advent ships gain increased shield mitigation when in their own culture (up to 6% more). Six percent may not sound like much, but consider this:

Frigate mitigation maxes out at 57% without any research/culture bonuses or penalties. A 100 dps weapon would then effectively do 43 dps.
An additional 6% increases this to 63%. The same 100 dps weapon would then effectively do 37 dps.
Ignoring other gameplay mechanics, if this frigate had 1000 combined hull and shield, without the mitigaiton bonus, it will survive 23.3 seconds, but with the mitigation bonus, its survival time increases to 27.0 seconds.

Allure of the Unity allows a 10% increase of overall income across an Advent empire, which compensates for the lack of upgrades to trade ships and a refinery.

that's you problem, 40 min into the game you should have an empire.

the advent get 10% higher alligience = 10% hhigher income than other races, but it does not kick in until late game(last row of thing in the civillian reshearch tree-> allure of the unity) but advent are by no means week, a well designed fleet will loose almost no ships vs an AI

I read teh title and thought first that we should vote for change and a bail-out.

Wrong forum. 

Personally I will take my highest crystal producing planet and my highest metal and I will only place trade ports there and will have all run resource focus.  This can really pump out alot of metal and crystal and the additional allegiance through allure is quite nice for some extra credits. 

Stay away from generalizations about economy.  Sure each race is a bit different, but they are mostly the same.

Everyone loves the mighty TEC trade stations that are a tier 2 tech.  But the tier 3 advent trade stations are simply out of the question?  Doesn't make sense.  If you want a advent credit economy, build trade stations just like you would with TEC.

Reminds me of a 3v3 I played.  Large Multi Random map.  I noticed I was off in the corner by myself as Vasari, the only way anybody could reach me would be to fly through the pirate base (and thus, the only way I could get out was through the pirate base).  Also, the pirate base was near my allie, so they couldn't sneak in either.  LOL, to top it off, I was the only Vasari, and I had a nice assortment of neutrals on my side of the pirates.  (They can't sneak a colony through the pirate base, so those neutrals were uncontested the whole game.)

Our 3rd allie was alone in another system up against 2 enemies.  (You've seen this scenerio before.)  I started feeding him to help out, and building my own economy as Vasari.  The way things worked out, I never built a fleet, but just econ boomed and fed my allies the whole game.

I ended the game earning 128.0 credits per second.  My resource income was good as well, but not godly.  We obviously won.

Hey Buttons - that was me as your 3rd ally - you were feeding me resources faster than I could spend it! With trying to micro two simultaneous battle fronts against the two enemies in that system - should've built more factories - that was the bottleneck for a while. As mentioned already, the Progenitor Mothership and spending points on her colonize ability is the key to getting your econ up and running in the opening game - then it depends on map and opponent's distance from you - obviously researching population increases on all planets and researching ice planet colonization and upgrading crystal production asap is important too I find.

the other races face similar problems. In endgame with full fleets Advent becomes very hardcore but so does vasari, and a well played tec will just keep pushing.

but generally 8-10 worlds/astroids per player seems to be the most balanced/fun (imo)

the bonus applies to each exstraktor on the plant

4 mines with bonus gives more than 3.