Explain trade balance please!
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- Corporal
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Explain trade balance please!
Everyday I notice that my previous days trade balance is a positive (I sell more than I buy) yet my budgeted trade surplus/deficit is always in the red and it seems to be getting bigger! How could that be since I thought the budgeted figures represent a twelve month "If everything remains the same" kind of calculation. Is that litle weasel of a minister importing things behind my back without me knowing about it? Too bad you decided not to let us sack those guys that do us wrong
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- Sergeant
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- Corporal
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I guess as long as I keep a positive trade balance I'll be ok. However, the problem that might arise with it always showing as a deficit (when there probabaly isn't one) is if you have some minister on auto pilot who is trying to balance the budget. As a result he has to raise taxes or cut spending to make up for that budgeted phantom deficit. This then could affect DAR, research, and so on and so on.
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- Brigadier Gen.
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Seems to me as though your going to have to experiment with different priorities&locks for ministers and be involved in different things
One of the great things about this game is that by adjusting the various ministers you can find out ways of getting the AI to do some things depending on what you want them to do just by mixing and matching the priorities and locks and ofcourse by your own actions.
Than "<ctrl> s" type a name that will remind you of the way the goverment is set up,( eg "warPrep1") and you've got that whole set up just by another <ctrl> L
One of the great things about this game is that by adjusting the various ministers you can find out ways of getting the AI to do some things depending on what you want them to do just by mixing and matching the priorities and locks and ofcourse by your own actions.
Than "<ctrl> s" type a name that will remind you of the way the goverment is set up,( eg "warPrep1") and you've got that whole set up just by another <ctrl> L
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- Sergeant
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Re: Explain trade balance please!
I don't know this for sure, but i noticed 2 things:Semper Fi wrote:Everyday I notice that my previous days trade balance is a positive (I sell more than I buy) yet my budgeted trade surplus/deficit is always in the red and it seems to be getting bigger!
1) When i am using my stocks (say petrol) this doesn't seems to be taken into account when budgetted trade balance is calculated
2) Budgettede trade balance always seem so be a "conservative" estimate, alltough this might just be a result of the way i have been playing.
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- Brigadier Gen.
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Re: Explain trade balance please!
1) Are you also accounting for the new stocks being imported or producedAaberg wrote::
1) When i am using my stocks (say petrol) this doesn't seems to be taken into account when budgetted trade balance is calculated
2) Budgettede trade balance always seem so be a "conservative" estimate, alltough this might just be a result of the way i have been playing.
2) I often found this too however their are many reasons that I suspect were responsiable non of which I can confirm to be reasonable assumptions
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- Brigadier Gen.
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Industary, Industary, Industary!!!
Build Industary all the others (Exept Oil and Power) are cheap or Not really that damaging to your economy if u import them...
Plus its the easiest way to get rich (and send yourself into inflation if ya not careful) but still...
Build Industary all the others (Exept Oil and Power) are cheap or Not really that damaging to your economy if u import them...
Plus its the easiest way to get rich (and send yourself into inflation if ya not careful) but still...
Supporting Nuclear Power in the UK.
Just because the Japanese happened to build one near multiple fault lines doesn't make them any more dangerous than they were before the Earthquake.
Just because the Japanese happened to build one near multiple fault lines doesn't make them any more dangerous than they were before the Earthquake.