Treasury In The Graph Screen

[Richmond]

Well, the title is self explanitory, but could we have the changes in treasury put in the graph screen so I can keep track of whether it goes up or down?

Also maybe imports and exports.

This post has been edited by Richmond on Jul 17 2006, 11:48 PM

[Ryacko]

It's quite obvious. It's based on your Budget surplus/deficit unless you change your budget alot(which will decrease stability...too much)

[Richmond]

Errr, ok!!! I dont see what this has to do with adding a function to the graph tool to show changes in treasury levels over time.

This post has been edited by Richmond on Jul 18 2006, 05:01 PM

[zilko]

I can see adding those items.

Let me take a look to see just how much work it will be, I might actually already have the data stored, and just not be displaying it (then it is just a matter of adding the various display controls and lines to the graph code vs. updating the code to actually start storing the data as well as the database tables).

[Ryacko]

It's not needed. If your overall treasury size is differnet thewn before, and your budget surplus/deficit...

[Richmond]

Yes, but if I havent been paying attention to the treasury then I may miss whats happening and have to wait a day or to find out if it is moving up or down. Esp at the moment when my budget surplus is positive, but my treasury is still moving down (took a few days to realise this).

One could argue that pretty much all of the graph functions are redundant, as you can see whay your changes do straight away without the need for the graph at all. (to be honest I dont really use the graph at all for anything).

This post has been edited by Richmond on Jul 20 2006, 03:30 PM

[zilko]

The history graph is meant to give you some insight into the workings of the model, you can see some correlation between budget changes and the resulting changes in other factors.

Also, in keeping with one of my goals to make the site useful as an educational tool (I know, ewwwwww), I felt the graph would help provide a history of changes to allow the student to document what they did and how it impacted things to give a basis for further explanation. I'd love to see some econ profs run a semestar project that has students run a nation for 12-14 weeks, followed by a writeup of what happened, described in economic terms (macro mostly).

[Richmond]

Oh, could we have tax changes on the graph as well? I was looking at a nation, trying to find a correlation to happiness. However, the major drops and increases had no concurrent change in social spending. So my only guess is that taxation changed. So it would be useful to have that as well.