Help dealing with The Infestation start

[tsr-aph]

So, I've recently started a playthrough playing with "The Infestation" as a starting point. Meaning that I'm a fungoid and a Hive Mind, as well as a devouring swarm. Things were great until I started infesting other planets. I'm just over 100 years into the game and I've had 17 planets get infested by my fungal spores and transfer over to me. With each planet won, I had a greater and greater crush on my resources until now when books just won't balance due to the planets that I'm gaining being completely economically wrong for me and not having the resources to adjust them as I'm gaining a planet every two years or so right now and my economy beforehand was finely balanced.

Does anyone have any tips on how to manage my vastly growing, unpredictable fungal empire or is this just a case of luck and hoping for the best?

 

[PAnZuRiEL]

Sounds like you're just expanding too fast and getting indigestion.

The solution is to take your time chewing your food.

 

[Unseelie]

Here's how you digest these worlds:

Switch planet designations. If you're short on Energy, Food, or Minerals, you can make any planet producing them +25% with a planet designation.

Destroy unused-unwanted buildings and districts (this frees up money for the marketplace).

Enact Population Controls: Should free up a spawner job to do something else, and if you're in a food crisis, this keeps it from getting worse BUT THIS IS DANGEROUS AND DO NOT FORGET TO TURN POP GROWTH BACK ON.

Check to see if a rebalance of your Civics might help get you out of it. Sure, its 250 influence. But if you get to move pops around cheaper, or get some other bonus to production, that's cash money, and you can get your Civics back later.

 

[aroddo]

Does anyone have any tips on how to manage my vastly growing, unpredictable fungal empire or is this just a case of luck and hoping for the best?

No, it's a matter of understanding the game mechanics, planning and managing. Or short: experience.

Ask vague questions, get nebulous answers.