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I'm afraid I always played DA by grabbing more planets. To do that I needed money. I would send out 8 surveyors looking for money. Otherwise I would get into the hole too fast.
So what is the best way to get money in TA. Or, is that a bad strategy?
TA in this instance refers to Twilight of the Arnor, the third expansion of GC2. Though if your just randomly suggesting Total Annihilation forever...then best of luck with that good sir!
Oh, sorry, I am such a noob! When I see the letters TA, my mind always think it reffers to Total Annihilation, lol, sorry about that...
No, I am referring to Twilight (not the movie!).
How does strategy change? How do you stay above water money wise?
The Terran Alliance can quickly get far above the water in comparison to the other races, partly due to their diplomatic ablities, and partly due to their tech A History of Extremes that gives them a market center from the start...
most other races sink too fast to become a real threat, even as god-like AI difficulty.
If you focus on researching tech early game, and get your diplo techs ASAP, you can start trading your high level tech for cash AND the AI's planets very early, March 1 even.
The 3 Trade techs are very valuable, as are the Govt techs, entertainment techs, research techs and engine techs.
Once you get a handful of planets, get your morale high and grow your population, build econ structures and then raise your taxes, though make sure to keep approval in the yellow.
For me, and i havent played a great deal of TA, the strategy does not change.
Well....i played a Godlike game and the AI was derpish....they spent their money on entertainment improvements(besides the Terrans, who spamed embassies and markets) and factories, their research was focused on tech victory(but it was disabled) and their ships were.......lets not get into that.... 
i would have played further but a memory space error ended the game after 20 turns......i had autosave set to 24 turns.(PC!!! Y U NO LAST 4 MORE TURNS!)
Me, the AI's can be a real pain if you set them to (especially) the Thalan AI.
It seems that their AIs always turn the opponents into psychotic and relatively strong empires.
For example, I equipped the Drath Legion with the Thalan AI. Not only they survived until the end (something incredibly rare for them), but they also went on to become one of the strongest empires in the game.
Scary huh?
VERY scary!
Scary thought..........Dread-lords AI set to Thalan.... 
What I do is early in the game when you are just expanding make atl least 2 planets focosed souly on income and at least one on researce. (class 4 in your system) THen you take all your industrial planets and put at least one market center on each. Procede with early game tech selling if you ever come close to the negative 500 mark. with this stratagy it is easy to have the best economy by mid game.
Make shure to researce advanced markets and maybe even trade center early in the game.
thats an...ok strategy.
also, please repair that terrible grammar.
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