How the hell do I increase my economic power

[Jean Vicquemare]

Seriously Im pumping 100 minerals monthly and all of my other resources are at like +5 average and all the other empires (except for 2 which are equivalent)have economic power of superior or overwhelming.

[BlueLightning]

Districts for energy or minerals, which can be increased by a building (need to research first) by 20% called energy nexus, mineral purification hubs. also you need workers to work your buildings, if you don't have enough workers you don't get the resource from the building but you still have to pay for the upkeep. To increase alloys and consumer goods you only need to build their building

[Nightmyre]

So I have a seven-hour long video of a playthrough on the hardest possible difficulty settings (5x crisis strength, all AI empires set to advanced start, max number of AI / fallen empire / marauder empire, endgame crisis date set to the minimum possible of 2250). Wonder if there would be any easy way to share it ... it's a massive file (22GB) o_O probably would be useful to link to people who have questions on how to run their economy properly.

[RhyoliTe]

You need probably need to triple mineral income and increase other resources more aswell (depending on how far you are in to the game). Because a surplus that small is not gonna count much for economic power unless you're in your first 100 years. Rare resource income counts more for economic power aswell, compared to minerals/credits.

The way economic power factors in to your superiority status is really dumb. It seems to count for x2 compared to military strength or technology level. Which is really weird because if you produce 500 alloys but 499 are consumed for the upkeep of several epic fleets your neighbors military strength might be pathetic compared to yours, but they still won't submit to your subjugation demand (even though you are threatening them with your military..) because you only have an alloy surplus of 1.

Honestly I'd just forget trying to outcompete with the AI on economic power. I find it is much more feasable to have a resource balance only minimally removed from neutral but have a super strong fleet and alot of tech. At least when playing tall.

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

If it's only +5, it's pretty low.

Mostly I just do what I think is best and keep building it up, it just sort of happens. No idea what directly impacts it but.. generally you'll get there.

Mostly just always make sure everyone has a job, and every colony gets upgraded to a normal capital building.

[Meewec]

i believe alloy production has a fairly large impact on how strong your economy is rated

[Dray`Gon]

Originally posted by Nightmyre:

So I have a seven-hour long video of a playthrough on the hardest possible difficulty settings (5x crisis strength, all AI empires set to advanced start, max number of AI / fallen empire / marauder empire, endgame crisis date set to the minimum possible of 2250). Wonder if there would be any easy way to share it ... it's a massive file (22GB) o_O probably would be useful to link to people who have questions on how to run their economy properly.

Is it too big for Youtube? I suppose 7 hours is a long time, but I think I've seen charity livestreams from Youtube saved on Youtube so perhaps you could upload it here? Then you'd be able to provide a link to it.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Dray`Gon:

Is it too big for Youtube? I suppose 7 hours is a long time, but I think I've seen charity livestreams from Youtube saved on Youtube so perhaps you could upload it here? Then you'd be able to provide a link to it.

Why necro? There are bunch of youtubers that play on "max difficulty settings" and post their playthroughs. Lathland has a few and he condenses them down to like 90 minutes.

[Dray`Gon]

My apologies. I was doing a google search to find out more about how to work on improving my economy in Stellaris. This is the first thing that popped on the search. I didn't realize it was an old post. Thanks for telling me about Lathland. I'll look for his videos.