Hi guys, I'm totally new to Sins, just picked it up a few days ago so I'm a total noob. However, I'd still like to ask some questions about a possible viable strategy that I haven't seen mentioned on here.

Okay, the basic premise is this. Imagine you have a solar system in which you own a bunch of planets. Your homeworld is amongst these planets. Now, your homeworld may not be in the best place relative to all these other planets. It might be at the end of a line, for example, so you probably have a lower credit income than you could have in a different area. So you decide to change your homeworld to a more central location, probably to a central Terran planet to maximise credit income. You also happen to have a few Broadcast Centres/Temples of Communion/Media Hubs about the place.

Now, if you look at a graph of your credit income after the game, you'll notice that it starts at a plateau, begins to climb, peaks and then returns to a plateau which is lower or higher than the original (depending on whether the new location is better than the old). This peak is what we want to make use of. Because of the culture spreading structures, the new homeworld and surrounding planets will get culture faster on the way up to max allegiance faster than the old homeworld and surrounding planets will lose culture on their way down to max allegiance. This is what causes the peak. Eventually the income plateaus out as everything stabilises. (in fact, metal and crystal will peak as well, just not as much)

I haven't worked out the exact numbers on this because there are quite a number of factors to take into account such as number of planets, number of broadcast centres, race (this strat is especially viable for the Advent with Unity,etc). So I'm not sure when the benefits of jumping your Capital Planet back and forth for that peak outweigh the costs of doing so. But I'm pretty sure there's a stage where they do. However, even carrying out this technique at the most optimal stage you won't make too much more than the cost of changing Capital Planets. Still, a profit's a profit.

Apologies for the long-winded post, further apologies if the strategy is completely non-viable and even futher apologies if the topic has come up before!