Please try my savegame..

[HerpInYourDerp]

Yes, the corruption calcs are exactly why you're 'earning' negative monies on pretty much everything bar protection agreements & tech/info trades (those two aren't affected by corruption).

IMO, the way it's displayed (as well as its general implementation, but that's another discussion) is a really, really poor design choice for the way it's supposed to work as it causes no end of confusion, in no small part due to it being inconsistent with a normal game where negative cashflow is in red text.

[Blabsawaw22]

Ok so I have way too high of corruption, which is true when I look at my Empire screen.. so this makes sense.. Guess I need to figure a way to deal with corruption now..

thanks herpinyourderp.

[fruitgnome]

@HerpInYourDerp From where do you know this about the corruption?

[fruitgnome]

You can loose the colonies with high corruption or less population by disabling automatic tax rates and raise the tax of colony to 100%.

[HerpInYourDerp]

From actually playing around and testing it ingame.

[Blabsawaw22]

I also notice that when I "enslave" huge populations I don't seem to get any bonus either.. more corruption..

[HerpInYourDerp]

The 'pirate corruption' is a separate, cyclical post-earnings modifier, so the only way of stopping it from continuously going 100+% (ie. negative income) soon after a new year beings is to reduce the number of hidden pirate facilities and your influence as much as possible.

Unfortunately, that's pretty much the complete opposite of how pirates are supposed to play.

[fruitgnome]

So it is better to have less colonies than more??

[HerpInYourDerp]

I've not tested spawning troops/a colony ship and taking over a planet the 'normal way' right at the start of a pirate game yet (ie. no criminal network built), but the less hidden facilities and influence you have, the longer it takes for the pirate corruption modifier to reach 100+%.

I do believe the negative income problem begin the moment you build a criminal network and obtain your first 'legitimate' colony.

[Blabsawaw22]

and how did Matrix not test/notice this in when shadows came out????

[fruitgnome]

I scrapped all pirate buildings and have now less than 100 % corruption and still control of the colonies.

[Blabsawaw22]

I only have 1 pirate fortress on my home colony.. thats it.. every other single one doesn't have hidden pirate buildings!??

[fruitgnome]

Save the game and scrapp the pirate base, fortress and criminal network. For me there was no negative aspect.

[Blabsawaw22]

I guess that kinda makes sense..

I mean once I achieve the actual "empire" status and I own the colony, I guess I don't need hidden pirate facilities anymore.. but that should be built into the game or atleast let you know..