Playing Lumeris, with the behemoth mod that increases trade value (unique to them), I was able to make 19M-33M+ dust a turn and around then, dust income flipped to -10M. It flip flopped for a time, and eventually inflation reset, meaning I could easily buy anything with my billion dust sticked up. This was on patch preview, no mods, endless difficulty

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Eventually, besides the dust inflation, my dust per turn began behaving normally again.

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Idk if this is a bug or just an unexpected exploit, but I doubt it was an expected scenario for the Lumeris.

:) Thanks!

Wow, those dust numbers are insane... are you playing with mods?

no mods, just the preview patch and it was a multiplayer match. science was crazy high as well, all due to trade routes and the stack bonus of the lumeris behemoth unique tech. i forgot the name of the tech, but all races get a special tech for behemoths in the military section. for lumeris, its a module that adds 15% (iirc) trade bonus to system. 15*4*5 (behemoth multiplier & 5 slots) its stacks allowing the trade value to skyrocket after only a handful of behemoths on a system. i was making millions in dust and science. it should be nerfed.patched imho, but its fun.

I think this module should be capped at 1 per behemoth like fleet move on heroes.