Well, lets shoot for 30k in 50 years Acc BBS first, ok?
I recommend you try to do that with a fairly simple race, not too jazzed up. The idea is to learn how to run the empire-building phase, and see what really matters in getting the performance. It is a lot easier to tweek a way of doing things you know with a more complicated race than to discover everything with one. So, I recommend you shoot for the 30k with the Feds. As follows – Federation Jack of all Trades IFE, OBRM, NAS 0.27/3.68g, -128/128C, 16/84mR 1/3 overall, eventually live almost everywhere with full terraforming 19% pop growth 1/1000 pop efficiency 10/9/13 factories G box *not* checked 10/3/15 mines Weapons cheap, rest expensive and start at 4. Leaves 0 points. The idea of the Feds is the main idea to understand in getting a big economy by year 50 or so – sheer numbers of people. The factory settings aren’t great, but it may surprise you how much econ you can get without monkeying with those very much. The Feds get a maximum planet size of 1,320,000 – the most possible (non