which brings the question if one shouldn't just mind control basically all non food producers.. or leave a link nexus uncontrolled and have all linked ones controlled/farm.
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incidentally.
is there a good size for merchant fleets? i'm in the process of scrapping my 1-2 merchants and leaving it all as 10 bulk or 10 merchants.. from every single planet.
or is that just overkill/inefficient? and should have split to 5 or so?
(reason for 10... 200q to budget)
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sticking 20% tax on my home planet. and see what happens.