Economy Ruined in very long suicidal game...

Hi!

What's your income, outcome, ballance? What's making you the biggest loss?

Without those answers I can offer you just general advices:
- increase taxes to the point most planets will be just above 20% approval (beware: on those below 20% pop will "get lost" 10% per week). You need over 50% approval only for the week of elections;
- decrease spending (well, with your debt that's already taken care of),
- change your government to a more profitable one,
- destroy/downgrade ISs on most planets (but most critical ones),
- spread pop from high-pop planets to those lacking.
- sell what you can: techs for cash, expensive ships (to decrease maintenance), even those most-expensive planets, if you can't make them pay for themself in reasonable time (though better try destroying very expensive buildings there first),
- put in queue on most planets econ buildings, or just replace some factories/labs with them (that's after you get to the point you can start producing again),
- get rid of some starbases - each one costs you 5BC to maintain,
- reload a game from an older savegame.

Hope something of that will help you. It all depends on how much income you're making now. If it's several 10,000, you'll likely survive that depression.

BR, Iztok

beside what was said above:

- If not done so yet: cancel the production queues on all/most planets manually and only (as far as feasible) try to get economy-buildings done. If you don't build anything you don't have to pay for it. esp. if you continued to build factories/labs your situation would get wose and worse.
If you don't have that yet: use some of your planets as money machines
- maybe convert factories/labs into economy buildings-
- if you have planets with very low poulation and others with maxed and/or very high population -> ferry people from your maxed/high-pop worlds to the planets with very little pop (you can use troop ships for that)

Depending on your number of planets being 200k in the negatives can be quite harsh though. if you are in a large/giant galaxy with tons of planets, it should be ok. On a medium one or smaller ît will at best take a damn long to get out of that hole.

I successfully managed not to ever go into negatives during my last games, but if I remember correctly there's quite a massive approval-problem if you are in the negatives for a while. This may make the income side tough to get up by taxes.

Anyway, with more details on your situation, it should be easier to find a solution.

Thanks for this quality, quality advice.

I'm back!!!

I'm in a gigantic galaxy with abundant planets (and then hundred or so more from the mega event).

I decomissioned 5 Industrial Centres on all my planets and slowly but surely I got back.

Now building econ buildings.

Honestly, thanks.