In small to medium games there really is no way. You can upgrade each planet to get rid of the "underdevelopment" money bleed; and depending on your race you can get upgrades to your crystal and metal extractors. There are also trade hubs to get you more credits and orbital refineries to help maximize the crystal and metal you bring in... but still that will leave you short unless you go out and get all the roids you can.
Zeta Gundam, Just wanted to drop you a thanks. It took me a bit to get all built up with 16 Caps, and then let them do the Advent = L4 thing, but once that was done I just walked in and wiped the floor with them. Not a single loss on my side. I guess I never knew how much more powerful caps were than anything else. Polistes, Found on planet as in an artifact? Or is it the one that shows up in the info card? The info card one should be there if you take a pir
I have no idea what to do with my current game. This is my first run through as the Advent. My random map basically splits in half. The two halves bottleneck at a single system. That system is the pirate base. The pirate base connects to SIX planets on my side of the star and on the other side it connects to the star. So I got real tired real quick of trying to defend six systems against pirate raids and after the first two caused me much suffering I just started buying my way out of
