Please please please change the auto upgrade selection for techs to default to off.  I hate changing that for every one of my colonies only to find one that is stuck upgrading a factory to the latest and it will take 70 turns.

It is tiresome to remember to do it with each colony founding. Makes more sense as a toggle on for developed worlds. I am however thankful they made projects repeatable.

That's my attitude exactly. [e digicons][/e]  

Tourism has gone back to being way overpowered.  Even with my custom race which has the maximum income and popularity penalties (the latter affects tourism), it's still no challenge whatsoever to max out my treasury .  No entrepreneurs or other economic buildings required.  Just build a few consulates and watch the money flow in.  It's been a problem for awhile that tourism is overpowered, but Stardock had gone a long ways towards fixing it by limiting tourism improvements to one of each type.  The consulates thing has again made most other economic choices irrelevant.  I don't bother with financial capitals or even going up the income tech tree.  Precursory treasury planets can be used for manufacturing as they are not needed either.  I just get consulates and may get a few of the tourism improvements and I'm quickly  making thousands per turn.  This needs to be drastically nerfed to make the other economic choices meaningful.  

Edit:  I wanted to add that I think this iteration of the game is quite good. 

A revisit of tourism is definitely required. In my latest game with 3.6 and all DLC, I have a planet with the 25% tourism bonus, I placed a consulate, the regular tourism buildings and an entrepreneur on it and it now brings in 1950 credits per turn. As Mac2411 stated, this now makes any financial decisions moot. 

I'm usually in the black well before turn 60 and am making tons of credits by turn 100. Here's what I do:

• I build that Paxton(sp?) building as fast as I can. I put the import/export center next to it and stick a consulate or some culture building next to them in a nice neat triangle. The Paxton building uses the number of tiles you control to determine how many credits you'll receive each turn. It's very powerful so mind influence improvements and get them when you can.
• Don't waste citizens on anything. Only use them to get Administrators (if you actually need them) and get Leaders. Don't be fooled by Techs that say you will get 3+ Administrators. If you train one, you will get 5 Admin points, but the Techs actually give you Admin points and not Administrators. Still, three or four free Admin points is nothing to sneeze at-- they are very expensive.
• Don't bother with the Port of Call. The Tech that precedes it will cost you 10% Morale and it's not worth the hit, especially early game when you're juggling those Leaders around.
• Stick the Leaders in the Research spots on the Civilization Economics screen. Use a few of them to keep each planet's morale above 70. Keeping it at 100 is a waste of resources and time. As you begin making more credits, you can play with the Tax Slider and Citizens in the Morale spots to control the morale. In the beginning, this is finicky micro-management, but it gets less painful as the game progresses.
• Shoot for Governments that give you an income bonus. 10% is nice; 20% is better. Ships that offer an income bonus are a nice extra, too. Park them at your home planet where you built Paxton, and forget about them.
• Get as many resources as you can. Keep what you need and sell the rest at the Market. This can come in real handy if you're scraping for cash. The Market doesn't pay well, but it's usually better than what other Civs will give you, especially if you try to trade more than one for credits. If you have a bunch to sell, go to the Market and you will come out much better.

By turn 60 or so, my infrastructure is basically complete, I am making money, and I can begin building that awesome fleet. The natives are beginning to get restless by then.

A good rule of thumb in GC3 is to get what you need, when you need it. Don't put it off until later-- that will only cause anguish and suffering. Be flexible and adapt to changing situations. It doesn't matter if you need to stop researching a Tech. It will still be there when you get back to it and you won't lose any points you have put into it.

A note about the Market: If you see that an item is selling for 1,000 credits, then the game sees only one of those items is currently available on the map. If you need that item to complete your plans, you might want to bite the bullet and snatch it up. There might not ever be a second chance to do so unless you or another Civ finds another of that resource later.

Hope this helps,

Richard

Thanks for bugfixing!

It seems Virtual Vacation is still rather OP after the nerf,which gives a massive +100% approval worldwide (Entertainment Capital in comparison is a mere +25%),perhaps it should be a local bonus.

Singularity Powerplant still looks bugged,the base productionbonus(the +30%) only applies to the planet it's constructed,and the level effect(+2.5%/lvl) went completely missing,even on the colony it's built.

I don't think you can update or upgrade the commander ship. You're stuck with what you got.

Glad to hear this feels better, let us know if anything else comes up.

Thanks for the head's up on some of these.  That consluate exploit was huge!

Trying to get the beta for 3.7 up today but we're having server issues getting things uploaded.