cannot create enough from coral farms to make stimulants

[jasper1949]

I have 3 coral farms maxed at 300% and several stimulant plants also at max productivity, but no matter what I do I am getting a message that goods input is too low so my stimulants is always a minus. What am I missing?

[TazmanianD]

The coral farms don't produce very much. One thing that helps a lot is there's a button on the UI that will open a panel that will show you the sector balance for each of the materials. What does it say your balance is for coral? If it's negative, then you need to either build more or maybe you're exporting it or consuming more than you think you are.

[LotusBlade]

You can buy them from market, that is actually what i was doing — buying 3 types of resources from market, 1 for each biom type. As well, i found the most 3 expensive things in each biom, mass produced them and sold to the marked and that was actually good income to cover expenses and get my balance running... Sadly, market price changes the more you play game, so after 2-3 hours you have to quit and come back in 12 or so hours.