Have you tried developping a healthy economy in parralel with your research development?

I try to have 1/3 of my planets being Commercial Centers (a.k.a. $ cow), which allows me to have a 100% spending.

Which, in return, allows mucho research

In my current game, I've focused on economy (+20 with Federalists, and +50 or so with the chosen abilities). This allows me to keep my spending rate at 100%, and still have 300bc a month left over. I usually spend that on buying techs, which I can buy for around 2000bc each.

Still, the Drengin are owning everyone. They've got 1080 military strength (they have four or so stacks of five fleets each with four ships each hanging around their main worlds), while mine is only 104. It's nuts, and I have no idea how it happened.

Yes, do keep an eye on your spending. No insult intended, but if you haven't realized that needs tweaked and monitored then you'll be in trouble.

Also having a few planets set aside for moneymaking - lots of trade buildings, lots of farms, a high PQ world, and a fair few happiness boosters - will help the economy side of things greatly.

One thing about GC2 is that it Takes money to produce anything... no money = useless production/research buildings. Also if your playing with more than one computer player, the AI tends to trade techs like they were candy. If you dont get in on trading with all the races early enough you'll find yourself behind all of em. (i like being the middle man of all the tech tradings in my games)

wow, it is a lot better now.


Instead of waiting for the deal to arrive now I actively involve in tech trade, and learn a few trick along the way, like keeping both my tech and my pocket full at the same time. Right now (on a normal game), althought I'm not yet able to kick anyone's butt but I can keep my butt from being kicked regardless. And being an intermidiate of galactic trade all races have a very cool attitude about me.

I just produce my first medium frigrate and leading the tech tree (though by a very small margin) and I have the biggest bank (negative cash flow though). But it looks a lot better now then it was before.


Thanks for all the useful tips, didn't expect the table changes this much