I've read all the strategy guides and such that exist on the net today, and none of them answer many of my questions that I encounter in the day-to-day game. For instance: A group of 3 good-aligned players needs to make 500M credits as quickly as possible. Are trading and planet farming really the best ways of doing this, or is there some better way? Another for-instance: Which is more effective: Spending your time trading and then either putting the money into a citadel and spending the intrest on fighters or trading and spending the money on fighters directly or not trading so much and mostly spending time colonizing, which will generate more fighters?

There are several zillion other questions which I have, and I'll ask them as this particular thread keeps going.