I came back to Aurora from 5.40 and started a new game.
Thing is, I am at Feburary of my 8th year and I have 6 shipping lines. Been getting one line per year and a half or so since I colonized my mars-equivalent (non-sol start). I do not recall shipping lines being so prolific in my previous games.
True, I started the game by plonking down 2 levels of expand civ. economy to fuel my infrastructure needs and they *have* been earning a load of cash and I have let the civ. mines earn me tax. Do any of those now affect shipping lines? At the rate they are going, I will soon need to start culling their ships to prevent slowness.
Has there been some kind of change to civilian behaviour and rates?