Greetings.

I am currently a builder with 3 billion upkeep.

I am thinking of changing over to another race for a little while, and was wondering something.

Approximately how many mineral units per hour would I need to pay for my upkeep cost of 6 billion?

I think 1k minerals/hour = approximately 1 billion credits a day, so start from there. I'm not sure how many planets you own or how much invading/colonizing you do, but that should be the major factor when you budget.

Also: have you unlocked the research contract yet? Every 1k research/hour = 600 million credits/day, assuming you use it each hour.

I have just under 8000 mineral production. Thought that might be enough, but wasn't sure.

Don't do much invading or colonizing.

Can do the research contract if needed. Have about 6200 research per hour, and the contract unlocked, but am still working on my 300,000,000 research done medal.

Climbing out of the Builder Trap will really help your ship development, but 8k is going to cut it really, really close.

PM sent.

*Grimaces* I know. Made mistakes as I was developing my ship, and got stuck with a lot of crappy planets, and have to work through dropping some of them.

Unless you are a reset of have friends who hold your hand through the first 50-100 ranks, a lot of mistakes will surely be made. Nothing to stress out about so long as you have a working plan to drop/replace any nasty planets you've picked up.

I have an upkeep on 4.8b and i made likr 3-5b a day on 9.2k minerals...