Post by contributor on Apr 23, 2016 13:30:31 GMT -5
I should try and get this thread back on track. I was over the hump on my Garden game on Crazy vs. 3. The early politics were actually very good to me. I was religious about not letting anyone get ahead on colonies or ships, which was hard because Cadar was outproducing everybody. Anyways, like I said, I got over the hump and had the core stabilized and was starting to make serious inroads against the xeno. I was pulling in around 5k a turn and was just about to 200k in the bank. My goal had been to have a 100k safety cushion, but it was still coming in faster than I could spend it. Having just unlocked heavy transports, I decided to create another invasion fleet and open up the third front against the Nyktos. At the same time my two fleets each that were attacking the Sidtax and Jyeeta had to make big jumps across open space to continue their offensives.
Politically I had been very stable, with lots of treaties unlocked and lots of EP I was pretty much spamming trade summits to add length to the three trade treaties I had going. So one of my treaties flipped to a Spy war. Not a big deal, I had the Rychart treaty that was a sure kill for a spy war. So the economy was negative for 2 turns, not a big deal. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but soon after I noticed my economy was still negative maybe by -2k. Trade Embargo, when did that start, took a few tries to get rid of that, but no worries, I had a lot of buffer right. Well of course, all along I'd been subsidizing all sorts of stuff for my new colonies and supporting something like 30-40 ships on long range attack in red squares. My cushion was already down to around 120k. Once a I got the embargo taken care of a Solar war pops up and suddenly my income is at -7k. Crazy swing. With a subsidized treaty the Solar war was taken care of pretty quickly, but by the time I got politics all positive again I was down to about 50k in the bank. Even with all positive politics, my income was still hovering around a 1k from all my war making and new colonies coming on-line. So it didn't sink me, but in probably 20 turns I burned through 150k in the bank. It was good I was well above my target of a 100k buffer zone.
Now the war machine has slowed down again and we're mostly operating out of green space. Income is back to about 4k and we've built a ton of mines in the last while on the new colonies which should help with stability. I'm still only at about 60k in the bank, but it could come up quickly if I stopped spending for a while.
Politically I had been very stable, with lots of treaties unlocked and lots of EP I was pretty much spamming trade summits to add length to the three trade treaties I had going. So one of my treaties flipped to a Spy war. Not a big deal, I had the Rychart treaty that was a sure kill for a spy war. So the economy was negative for 2 turns, not a big deal. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but soon after I noticed my economy was still negative maybe by -2k. Trade Embargo, when did that start, took a few tries to get rid of that, but no worries, I had a lot of buffer right. Well of course, all along I'd been subsidizing all sorts of stuff for my new colonies and supporting something like 30-40 ships on long range attack in red squares. My cushion was already down to around 120k. Once a I got the embargo taken care of a Solar war pops up and suddenly my income is at -7k. Crazy swing. With a subsidized treaty the Solar war was taken care of pretty quickly, but by the time I got politics all positive again I was down to about 50k in the bank. Even with all positive politics, my income was still hovering around a 1k from all my war making and new colonies coming on-line. So it didn't sink me, but in probably 20 turns I burned through 150k in the bank. It was good I was well above my target of a 100k buffer zone.
Now the war machine has slowed down again and we're mostly operating out of green space. Income is back to about 4k and we've built a ton of mines in the last while on the new colonies which should help with stability. I'm still only at about 60k in the bank, but it could come up quickly if I stopped spending for a while.
