Budgetry

[Ryacko]

http://www.gotnation.com/nationdisplay.php...narchic%20State
All money is converted to interest. So why is the deficit still there? Or does interest convert that taxes?

[Ryacko]

Now with 50% industry it does not decrease the budget net.
It does however increase GDP per capita spending thorugh the roof.

[zilko]

A deficit means that you are spending more than you bring in. It really doesn't matter if you dump it straight to the Treasury or spend it on something else.

Boundry conditions are by nature a little bit fuzzy. So does it make sense that you are dumping money into your Treasury that you didn't actually get from tax revenue? Probably not. But I couldn't really test all of the various boundry conditions during the development cycle, so consider this one of those fuzzy areas. I'll try to accumulate them and address them as part of the adjustments for v2.0.

[Ryacko]

Industry should create money since the government is selling goods.

[zilko]

Industry budget can clearly be interpreted as a number of things. And one is that it is socialized business, which in a sense does indirectly generate income for the government through increased production and resulting increased tax revenue.

Your industry budget does not necessarily mean that the gov't opens a Baskin Robbins and thus all of the income should be deposited in the treasury. Industry budget is more of a government support for industry. This will become more clear in v2 when you can actually allocate your Industry budget to help develop various types of industries.

[Richmond]

Does this mean in ver 2 that spending/capita is going to be the important thing (as opposed to % of budget)?

Oh, and why does that nation get any money for spending in its budget. 0 everything surley means that it would not get any money from your equation (as function of taxrate and health would be 0)

Budget = [ f(Taxrate) + f(Healthcare) ] * ( 1.0 + f(Rights) + f(Freedom) ) * Efficiency

This post has been edited by Richmond on Aug 14 2006, 09:39 AM

[zilko]

One of my pushes for v2 is indeed to convert most of the formulea to a per capita scale rather than percentages.

Zero everything is a boundry case that I'll probably need to revisit to see exactly what is happening and why, in an effort to correct flaws in the model.

[Ryacko]

Indeed. Except have an exception. When a nation in a region is the only region, it should be based on percents, since, what do you compare the GDP with?

There should be a feature involving closing a region. Afterall, if all your friends are in, why not make it private. Though the private thing should require a slight donation.