Everywhere I look, everyone is getting rich off presumably colonies. Everywhere, I see monthly incomes in the several hundred thousands. Meanwhile, my balance is somewhere in the low 30 thousands, decreasing further every month. Despite running 2 colonies, they are barely pulling their own weight(only one even earns over 10k a month nowadays), and my operative/administrator/SPECIFICALLY officer salaries are cutting deep into my income.
What am I doing wrong? Am I not spamming enough colonies? Am I holding good relations with the Hegemony too preciously? Am I just not selling enough drugs? Am I over-worrying about money when I really shouldn't be?
Some complications I have regarding the usual alpha core free moneyprinter setup:
-Commission with the Hegemony. I don't feel like dealing with inspections and risk losing the commission, the only thing that's keeping me from going into negative on my income
-Hegemony allied with Luddic Church, which would mean I would have 2 enemies. Not to mention they are literally the second largest alliance in my game
-Non hostile to Remnant due to Midnight Dissonant, but not high enough relations with them to get the free AI cores. This makes AI core farming more tedious since I don't feel like going back to hostile with them but I can't to get missions from Midnight that aren't bounties for the same factions I am commissioned with or trade disruption(pretty sure those are indie convoys which would be...issue riddled)