Darkman
10.02.05, 12:21
könnte das jemand übersetzten :???:
Habs bei den Übersetzungsprogrammen versucht, aber ehrlich gesagt hab ich das noch weniger verstanden :D
Economics For Dummies.
Eh, I couldn't think of a better title. I've been messing with the economy for awhile now so that I could better understand it. I found the best way to do it was to have a strategy and to work at it in the long run as economies in this game and real life don't change over night (usually). Hopefully I can get some feedback on some better ways to do this while also helping others at the same time. So i'll just lay out everything that I do and why (that I can think of).
First things first (if it's a single player game or your own server): pause it.
Then start with your laws:
Change to single-party democracy. I just do this so that I can focus on resources and other things besides elections. If that's your thing though, give it a go.
Officialize all major languages and religion to raise support.
Legalize all freedoms for world support with economically and militarily powerful countries.
Make child labour illegal for the same reason.
Make sure contraceptives and abortion are legal and borders are both opened for relations and to keep population down (because if your border is open for people to leave it helps steady the population).
Population is important but for now you should try to stabilize it so that the demand doesn't keep trying to go up in the resources that you will eventually straighten out. You're trying to balance things for now and a fluctuating population just hurts that.
Next is go to taxes. If your country is reallly hurting put it to 50%. Otherwise put it to 35%. High taxes lower stability and economic health, I believe. Anything 35% and lower can get you into the 90's on both but it is just slower.
Budget sliders:
I can't remember em all off the top of my head but i'll give it a go:
Infrastructure i place to dead center.
Enviroment i place at about 60% because it affects resource growth i believe.
Government i set to 100% because that lowers corruption.
Health care and education i set to about 30-40% depending on population size and how much it costs.
Research i set to 0%. economic aid is at 50% if it's affordable otherwise it goes to 0%. tourism is placed at 50% until economic health and stability rise then i place it to 100%.
I missed one budget slider I think and that one is also placed at 50% .
When you start getting lots of money raise health care and education to 50% and enviroment to 100% as well as infrastructure and the other one I can't remember the name for :P
Next go into your resources and lower everything to 0%
Now raise your Global Tax Mod to either 60 or 70%
Now you'll want to start investing in a resource. Here's what i've found to be the top 10 resources in a general sort of order:
Steel and Iron
Fossil Fuels
Electricity
Cereals
Dairy
Fruits
Wood
Minerals
Meat
Tabacco
Here's the thing to watch out for:
Yes other resources will bring in a profit that is larger but countries seem to either raise these on their own quickly or they are already within 1-2% of being maxxed out. These things are like the finished products and the such.
Also watch the foods. Countries invest in these first because it makes your people the happiest. But the world is only having it's demand met by about 70% in these. So they are money makers but you also loose money the fastest in these. They only seem to be good for about 15-20 years.
Iron and Steel and energy resources seem to last ya about 20-25 years.
So start by investing in these products. Make sure you set the tax on these resources you're investing in to about 25-35%. Invest a bit (like 5-10%) and just let it sit for a month or so. Your money will rise a bit more as your economy settles. I don't know why this does this but if you force too much onto your economy at once you will get an economic failure.
What you are looking for is a profit that is about 5-10% of your available funds. So that you loose your debt in about 7-15 years.
That's the boring part. Waiting to pay off your debt. I suggest slowly raising budgets as you go. Also, you will notice that your resource income is HUGE while your taxes are only bringing in 1-5% of what your resources make. Lower taxes. Make your people happy. It raises stability and economic health. Then raise tourism and that starts to be a money maker in a few years.
After your debt is paid throw everything to max budget except propaganda. Your people already love you and you don't want to piss off the world so it's useless at this point.
Now lower your global tax mod slowly and at the same time raise the taxes on your major export resources.
In about 30 years or so when the world is starting to develope it's own resources majorly start lowering your major exports as they slowly drain out to just meet your own demands. Then raise up your Global Tax Mod to about 25% Raise taxes again to about 25%
Also, once your debt is gone and you are meeting teh resource demands of all your people make abortion illegal as well as contraceptive. Make polygamy legal and close your borders to emigration. Your birth rate should soar.
Why do this? Because once all countries are meeting their own demands GDPs will lower to meet population levels (high populations make high resources and taxes making a higher GDP). That's why in the long run China can be such a huge super power.
I know i've left out some parts but it's my lunch break so i'm going to go eat lunch. I'd love some input into other peoples thoughts. Constructive criticism.
Habs bei den Übersetzungsprogrammen versucht, aber ehrlich gesagt hab ich das noch weniger verstanden :D
Economics For Dummies.
Eh, I couldn't think of a better title. I've been messing with the economy for awhile now so that I could better understand it. I found the best way to do it was to have a strategy and to work at it in the long run as economies in this game and real life don't change over night (usually). Hopefully I can get some feedback on some better ways to do this while also helping others at the same time. So i'll just lay out everything that I do and why (that I can think of).
First things first (if it's a single player game or your own server): pause it.
Then start with your laws:
Change to single-party democracy. I just do this so that I can focus on resources and other things besides elections. If that's your thing though, give it a go.
Officialize all major languages and religion to raise support.
Legalize all freedoms for world support with economically and militarily powerful countries.
Make child labour illegal for the same reason.
Make sure contraceptives and abortion are legal and borders are both opened for relations and to keep population down (because if your border is open for people to leave it helps steady the population).
Population is important but for now you should try to stabilize it so that the demand doesn't keep trying to go up in the resources that you will eventually straighten out. You're trying to balance things for now and a fluctuating population just hurts that.
Next is go to taxes. If your country is reallly hurting put it to 50%. Otherwise put it to 35%. High taxes lower stability and economic health, I believe. Anything 35% and lower can get you into the 90's on both but it is just slower.
Budget sliders:
I can't remember em all off the top of my head but i'll give it a go:
Infrastructure i place to dead center.
Enviroment i place at about 60% because it affects resource growth i believe.
Government i set to 100% because that lowers corruption.
Health care and education i set to about 30-40% depending on population size and how much it costs.
Research i set to 0%. economic aid is at 50% if it's affordable otherwise it goes to 0%. tourism is placed at 50% until economic health and stability rise then i place it to 100%.
I missed one budget slider I think and that one is also placed at 50% .
When you start getting lots of money raise health care and education to 50% and enviroment to 100% as well as infrastructure and the other one I can't remember the name for :P
Next go into your resources and lower everything to 0%
Now raise your Global Tax Mod to either 60 or 70%
Now you'll want to start investing in a resource. Here's what i've found to be the top 10 resources in a general sort of order:
Steel and Iron
Fossil Fuels
Electricity
Cereals
Dairy
Fruits
Wood
Minerals
Meat
Tabacco
Here's the thing to watch out for:
Yes other resources will bring in a profit that is larger but countries seem to either raise these on their own quickly or they are already within 1-2% of being maxxed out. These things are like the finished products and the such.
Also watch the foods. Countries invest in these first because it makes your people the happiest. But the world is only having it's demand met by about 70% in these. So they are money makers but you also loose money the fastest in these. They only seem to be good for about 15-20 years.
Iron and Steel and energy resources seem to last ya about 20-25 years.
So start by investing in these products. Make sure you set the tax on these resources you're investing in to about 25-35%. Invest a bit (like 5-10%) and just let it sit for a month or so. Your money will rise a bit more as your economy settles. I don't know why this does this but if you force too much onto your economy at once you will get an economic failure.
What you are looking for is a profit that is about 5-10% of your available funds. So that you loose your debt in about 7-15 years.
That's the boring part. Waiting to pay off your debt. I suggest slowly raising budgets as you go. Also, you will notice that your resource income is HUGE while your taxes are only bringing in 1-5% of what your resources make. Lower taxes. Make your people happy. It raises stability and economic health. Then raise tourism and that starts to be a money maker in a few years.
After your debt is paid throw everything to max budget except propaganda. Your people already love you and you don't want to piss off the world so it's useless at this point.
Now lower your global tax mod slowly and at the same time raise the taxes on your major export resources.
In about 30 years or so when the world is starting to develope it's own resources majorly start lowering your major exports as they slowly drain out to just meet your own demands. Then raise up your Global Tax Mod to about 25% Raise taxes again to about 25%
Also, once your debt is gone and you are meeting teh resource demands of all your people make abortion illegal as well as contraceptive. Make polygamy legal and close your borders to emigration. Your birth rate should soar.
Why do this? Because once all countries are meeting their own demands GDPs will lower to meet population levels (high populations make high resources and taxes making a higher GDP). That's why in the long run China can be such a huge super power.
I know i've left out some parts but it's my lunch break so i'm going to go eat lunch. I'd love some input into other peoples thoughts. Constructive criticism.