Wow, I havn`t been here for a long time (since the Prix-battle). What did happen in the meantime?
As the other dudes said, that nasty Prix fleet was guarding the jackpot... 1,747 TL-4 xeno-archeological sites, which have yielded at least a couple of dozen free techs, about forty research labs, nearly as many terraforming and genetic modification stations, tens of thousands of infrastructure, tens of millions of litres of fuel, hundreds of thousands of minerals, hundreds of mines, automated mines, construction factories, missile factoiries, fighter factories, fuel refineries, deep space tracking stations, ship maintenance depots, ship components, etc, etc... our sixty or so cargo ships can just barely haul it away as fast as we dig it up, even though they're just carting it over to the next system and dumping it on the nearest planet.
We've also established a mining colony that is now producing about a quarter of a million minerals per year, of all eleven trans-newtonian ores; and five of our planets (Earth, Mars, Dravar XV, Remagen, Tropico) are now class-0, with no population cap.
The latest free advances in construction tech (bringing us up over 300% efficiency) have greatly increased the rate at which we spend money on construction... and we are once again in a downward financial spiral, losing up to 150 bucks per day. Fortunately, we have more than 300,000 bucks in the bank, so we have years to straighten this problem out before it actually becomes acute. Still... the shaky economy needs to be addressed again, as one of our top priorities. I've got a hundred new Financial Centers queued up on Earth, and some on Mars as well.
