New to the game and Overwhelmed. Any hints?

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My guess is that this production multiplier wiould be of marginal use in certain respects unless the productivity of each planet.. orbital yard .. etc. was also increased, as the bonus points, especially minerals.. would be "lost in space" .

If this is true... the "natural" storage capacity of the AI ought to be doubled or tripled, from that of the human player.

Actually, I think it's more common for an AI to stall on production because it can't pay any more maintenance. The bonuses make it take longer before this occurs.

I don't actually know which ministers are turned off; I'm just repeating what I've seen posted here. My first guess would be things like the Population minister, so on the lowest difficulty, the AI wouldn't shuffle population around, for example.