Since Intrigue went live I have been trying to run a stellar empire, really... For some reason I keep going broke.
Anyone have any ideas on stopping this terrible state of affairs? All my colonies are in the black (in the latest attempt) and most games have always been solvent on the colony level. I don't have all that many ships only enough stations to provide adequate raw materials for construction.
My starbases cost 10, ships cost 8, and the colonies come in at a huge 37. This is three times my intake. The new tax-based system is giving me fits. If I raise taxes high enough to pay for the empire I'll have revolutions in weeks and the negative modifiers will make income/research/production next to nothing.
Is there a way to fix this and still have growth and production... not to mention research?