Mining should be all you really need. Without knowing what your rank & stats are I can only guess what the trouble might be, but it's probably one of these:
- You might need more mines. In general I go with about 20% mining 35% research and 45% artifacts. (science officers help with the research.)
- You might have weak resource planets. Never build resource structures on anything less than Abundant.
- you might need to upgrade your mines. If you're rank 40 with only +1 resource structures, you've got a problem.
- You may have researched beyond your means. Shooting ahead in tech will get you fancy expensive items with high upkeep before you can support them.

My own mineral income now at rank 65 is 163 per hour, which is less than 20% of my total income. (my art/res add up to a little over 900) I haven't built a new mine on a world in a while, but I do upgrade existing mines whenever the tech is available, and sell minerals as needed. I'm sure I'll need to focus on more mining eventually but for now I always have enough to throw at equipment & colonizing, with a large cash surplus.

I can't afford ship upgrades, colonizing additional planets, and even repairs are starting to add up. How do you get your credits? I typically dump my mining load twice a day to try and keep some money. Most I've ever gotten from a daily reward is maybe 10k credits, usually just get research points.

Cothordin wrote "i go for 15% mining 20%artifact and 65%"

im curious why so much for artifacts? im at level 51 and am pumping 700 research and 140 of artifacts and minerals. i got worried i was doing something wrong when you stated your ratios, but




thats more along my ratio, can i ask why you produce so much artifacts, and does that not slow down your research considerably?

bah 45K is nothing, im at 250K.

Well, I'm screwed. Someone took it, I tried taking it back.. once it got to the point where it said invade, looked to see if anyone was guarding it under Colony... didn't see anyone so sold my two most powerful weapons to invade it... and then it said I couldn't until I killed the guards. A few hours later it shows that he is guarding it, but now that I'm down well over a hundred attack power I end up losing so I have to spend a lot of credits repairing and it's just a mess.

Nope, no traps. I've converted the few planets I do have into mining, so I can try and bring in some income to get some better planets. Found a nice Terra planet that says "Legion Ally Occupied," dont know what that means but *shrug*

"Legion Ally Occupied" means that the owner of the planet has some of the same legion allies that you do. The number in parenthesis is the number of common allies. So "Legion Ally Occupied [5]" means that the person who owns the planet has five legion allies who are also members of your legion.

no traps... how are you still alive then ohh... i know why... its your rep. they are so scared of your rep that they wont dare click on you to attack... people like "easy" targets not ones that are 100% guaranteed to counter attack at least once. you must not have too many enemies at the moment.