Restart in 1.32 or try to fix the economy?

[Kiel]

Hi,

I've been playing a save since release but I'm experiencing the common problems - economy becoming saturated, wars fizzling out, factories full and almost no demand for anything but food and medical supplies.

Is it worth restarting a save on the latest version, or are all these things going to happen again eventually anyway?

I am slightly concerned because I haven't seen any war notifications since the very beginning of the game (maybe 20hrs), and I think this may be the reason. it's starting to cause problems because I can only boost the economy by taking on station building missions - traders and miners are making very small sums per run (<50k) compared to when they started (>300k) and as a result everything is taking a long time.

If I'm going to avoid restarting, is there anything I can do to get things moving along? Preferably not a galactic war - can I encourage the xenon or khaak, or get the factions fighting again?

[ApoxNM]

Hi,

I've been playing a save since release but I'm experiencing the common problems - economy becoming saturated, wars fizzling out, factories full and almost no demand for anything but food and medical supplies.

Is it worth restarting a save on the latest version, or are all these things going to happen again eventually anyway?

I am slightly concerned because I haven't seen any war notifications since the very beginning of the game (maybe 20hrs), and I think this may be the reason. it's starting to cause problems because I can only boost the economy by taking on station building missions - traders and miners are making very small sums per run (<50k) compared to when they started (>300k) and as a result everything is taking a long time.

If I'm going to avoid restarting, is there anything I can do to get things moving along? Preferably not a galactic war - can I encourage the xenon or khaak, or get the factions fighting again?

Well, you can use the War mod, which will provide more ships, therefore more conflict (but after some time the same will happen).

Or you could edit the standings of factions, so they fight each other more, which will probably help. But in general certain balance issues and bugs will prevail for now.

I for myself currently go for rather short playtroughs, testing new things (like being a pirate, boarding, etc.). I don't get too invested in a long game yet, because restarts after patches tend to work better.

I guess you could start manipulating the opposition, hack their stations, kill their freighters, so you only provide certain goods.