Treasury

The Treasury is a statistic that represents the accumulated financial gain from, and. It is measured in. The grows according to the, which is the  minus the  costs of improvements, ships and starbases.

The is useful in diplomacy, building starbase modules, and rushing improvements and ships, among other things.

Generating Gross Weekly Income
There are three additive components of the :, and, with  installed,. The and  are taxed according to the  to yield their contribution to the.

GDP
The, or Gross Domestic Product, is the sum of the of each of the colonies. Assigning a leader to Wealth boosts.

Tourism Income
Tourism provides a safe, steady income that grows with.

Commonwealth Income
Commonwealths, introduced in, pay a tribute every week. The is the sum of all tribute payments.

Reducing Maintenance
A critical part of creating wealth is to minimize spending. For example, just about everything you build requires maintenance. Hence a colony dedicated to ship building has no use for a research building. Clearly it should be destroyed to save the maintenance (and some useful building substituted). Decommissioning ships that are out of date is also reducing maintenance. On a larger scale, judging the size of fleets required for a given task is an important skill to learn so that one does not "overbuild" and spend maintenance for impressive fleets that actually are not being used.

Other ways to increase the Treasury

 * Making diplomatic trades
 * Selling resources at the Galactic Market from
 * Constructing the $$ and $$ projects
 * Promoting an to a  in
 * Surveying anomalies
 * Studying a wealth relic
 * Conquering (looting) planets with the Conqueror ability

Ways to spend the Treasury

 * Making diplomatic trades
 * Buying resources at the Galactic Market from
 * Building starbase modules and asteroid mines
 * Rushing improvements and ships
 * Hiring mercenaries with