Economy problems

I generally play with the Terrans. Most of the times now in the TA I've been holding down the colony rush because of the manteince costs, and selling techs to minor races and another major races untill I can actually keep on. Last game I played, for some reason I would have been completelly unable to become self suficient if I hadn't stroke a economic deal with the Krynn.

Basically my question is: How they manage to get a income so big that the income I gain from the economic deal is more than twice/thrice my whole tax+turist+trade income?

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What difficulty are you playing on?

How much rush buying do you do early on?

Galaxy settings?

What, to you, is a "rush"?

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Basically, I'm only getting a couple planets at the start, and keeping it for quite a good time. Difficult is normal, but with randomize intelligence. I'm just a bit little peeved that they got so much income that that even just the bonus income I gain from treaties were bigger than twice my entire income...

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Check their intelligence ingame? Perhaps you've managed to bag a Suicidal AI?

Oh, and check their planet count, too.

Foreign Stats-->Stats-->Misc for intelligence, Foreign Stats-->Stats-->Society for planet count.

This is assuming you have a save of the game you can load up, or are still in the process of playing it.

Again, galaxy settings? Tiny? Immense? Abundant planets? Rare planets? These things matter.

And, again, what's your idea of a "rush"? A couple can mean anything from your starting planet + your secondary all the way out to 7 or 8 planets total in 2-4 systems.

Also, how much are you taxing your people?

Economic treaties are worth 10% of the other civ's income, so basically you're saying that they have 20x or more than your entire income.

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