How can i post my save game here as an attachment ??.

 It appears that if i let my Wealth sit at 1m.  for a couple of turns without spending The game gets confused and starts reading income as a deficit.

From this.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ZQKwGQrCx_diVvpykvJg4LVWy9FmUUo/view?usp=sharing

To this.  In one turn.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sW3GmLTdU1ewKeoHIVlyW8saQxIfaPZD/view?usp=sharing

That sounds fine.  And i am aware of that.  So i should stay at the cap and not get more.   That doesn't explain the game reporting my x amount profit as a actual loss.   So that,  from that point on my income is x amount in the negative.  Which in my case instead of having 2.3mil  in profit every turn,  The game says i am losing 2.3 mil. per turn.

Obviously something is getting screwed up when i reach the cap as this is happening repeatedly.

 So in other words. I cant play this game unless i deliberately avoid making excess money.   Which with the way the port of call works combined with the missionary centre is so easy to do.  Playing on Incredible With a standard race (not an op custom race) I can have 200k plus income per turn well before turn 100.  At which stage i can just buy opposition Colonies n star-bases every turn.  Intrigue has made this game so easy (Bugs And Commonwealth excluded) Especially if you play Synthetic like the Yor,,,, that it is hardly worth playing.

Thanks for Your replies.  

How do you get that by turn 100 I'm usually at -59 especially that early.

If you just want to attach a screenshot, you can click on the + button on your formatting menu, and click on the "Image" option from the drop down menu. Use the "upload" tab to upload from your computer.

Showing you how to upload screenshots by uploading a screenshot of my post showing you how to upload screen shots. The screenception!

 Incredible/Gigantic/V 15

You have to get a benevolent ideology point to get it.

You welcome.

Hi Altak,

This may seem like a bump (if I understand that word), and I apologize if that's the case, but I have a question for you--

In the first 50 turns or so, which techs do you try to focus on first? I realize this is situational. In GC2, playing an economy game was pretty easy, but I struggle doing this in GC3.

Turn 50- 60 is about the time I need to start building military so I don't get squashed by the likes of the nasty Snathi, and I'd like to have a good part of the infrastructure being built by that time.

TIA,

Richard

Well that was a waste of time.  So no help i guess.

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Guess i will try uninstalling and reinstalling again.  Maybe it is an issue in my game.

Well maybe it's because I'm not focusing on tourism as far as researching. If anyone is bragging about 100000 a turn income, or gross income they definitely have me beat. 

I shoot for media assimilation first. Then I recently concluded that researching morale is good, because I like to play as slyne. Then to keep the enemies off my back I research diplomacy techs. At this point I research weapons or engines. I do try to keep media assimilation as long as possible. It works even with 30+ planets if you research as many approval techs as possible. 

I need to try researching tourism early though.

Hi,

I've just completed a game and didn't have any problems when i went over 1 million (except that it displayed as exactly 1000,000) so maybe they've quietly changed the number type? 

I hadn't previously remotely appreciated the power of the the port of call  but was intrigued by the initial post and tried the Yor at Genius on a huge ,map with nine random opponents. Although I only managed to colonise three more planets, one was a precursor research world and using it for research and Iconia for production generated more than enough of both and about +450 gold a turn with just those four ports of call. 

I spent the rest of the game, bashing and trying to maximise wealth but I am v impressed by +250K at move 100 ish. I guess that was with a tech tree that has the tourism expansion since even at 100% tax with robots I only got to +73K per turn about move 200ish before dropping down when i changed to the Singularity government type 

My only problem in the latter stages was generating enough resources given the way that the market works. I wanted to keep Durantium and Promethion at 100 and only got 2 or 3 a turn that way plus 5 ish from start bases; and whatever I could buy from the remaining civs who all hated me (apart from the Terran Resistance) and so were charging prohibitive rates for resources

Anyway, While it was fun once, I agree that the new economic model is broken since tourism + ports of call are just too powerful; and . I gather (we were pragmatic robots so I didn't get to test this) that Missionary centres accentuate this even more. 

Any suggestions from anybody on ways to remedy this without the sort of dramatic lurch that Stardock seem to implement every time they change direction? Perhaps ports of call could operate on a sliding scale (downwards). After all, there are presumably only a finite number of tourists to go round. 

Incidentally, the battle viewer still isn't working - sticks at the opening scene. A little irritating when you have a serious engagement. Any ideas short of reinstallation on how to remedy this? (As far as I know, my graphics drivers haven't changed recently.) 

Cheers,

Jon