Thrake -> RE: About mining income (9/20/2015 9:34:34 PM)
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I have always been rather fine managing economy as an Empire. Actually, I found out what was wrong: I had setup pirate strength to very weak. I don't know what it exactly do, but at least I did note that it affects ship maintenance cost. With weak, pirates have roughly to pay twice the maintenance of the very strong pirate setting (with very hard difficulty; I don't know what it affects either). With very weak pirates, I was bankrupting just from ship maintenance; only one time I succeeded in doing a few things was by having 4 empires paying protection almost from start. I did now set pirate strength to weak and I'm doing quite fine although it seems a waste trying to build hidden bases; I fail to prevent the AI from raiding it from time to time even with a large fleet parked there and end up loosing those. I'm still unsure about mining income though; I build a few mines and freighters and hope it does more good than wrong with the extra civil maintenance cost for pirates.
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