Cakewalk is too hard!!!

[MarkG]

1) trade your advances
2) trade in general

[Lemmy]

Don't build every social project avialable, only build those with no maintenance and those you actually need and can afford.

Once you have the social projects build that you want, decrease social spending so less is wasted by not bulding a social projects on your planets.

[MarkG]

How do I set up trade routes?

build a freighter, send it to planet. the further the better

Also, how do I invade worlds?

first you attack the ships in the orbit with your ships(by attacking the planet. if there are no ships in orbit, nothing happens). if. then you attack the planet with a transport.

when you build a transport and try to take off the orbit of the planet you build it, you are asked to give the number of troops to put in. you need to check the population of the planet you want to invade and have similar forces. if you're technologically advanced you will easily need far fewer troops.

[Lemmy]

Originally posted by MarkG

How do I set up trade routes?

build a freighter, send it to planet. the further the better

Also, the trade roiute will be between the world where the freighter was built, and where it's sent.
So you can't quickly build a freighter on a high production planet, then send it to one of your borderworlds, and then to another civs planet to get the maximum profit like i tried in my first few games.

[Romanus]

Wow...I like the sound of how the trade works. My main gripe with MOO3 is that I dont feel in control of enough.

This sounds similar to the CTP2 style of building caravans.

[Boris Godunov]

The 2nd patch reduced the costs of social works a bit, so maybe that will help you financially as well.

I, too, discovered that once I got to worlds with 15+ billion people, it was impossible to have a planet that had good morale and didn't run a deficit. Man, is that annoying!

[BlueDEvil]

Trade routes are not always better when it is further. Pick a route where you have plenty of starbases in between. That is the best route which yield more income even if only half the distance. Just make sure you have trade increase modules in those starbases. It is much faster to established them.

You get your income from trading with minor nations. They pay a lot for technology which they never research. If you are on friendly terms with any nations, you are more likely to receive foreign freighters which also benefits you as well.

Lower class planets tend to give less income overall. Everytime a planet goes up a class, the income goes up as well. Always choose a higher class planet to colonize first. This is the case of quality over quantity. But when you have surplus population, then it would be good to expand.