Playing Qatar in the mideast campaign.
I've noticed that very soon after starting the game Yemen dives into
the red figures and stays there....
Took a closer look and saw that the region has a killing debt of 600B
According to the CIA factbook i thing a starting debt of 60B would be
more likely...
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Debt Yemen
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I HAVE STILL A FISH IN MY EAR
I HAVE STILL A FISH IN MY EAR
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It says 20 Billion in CIA worldfactbook, for 2005. Where did you get that 60 billion number?
Also I just checked Turkey, it says 161 billion. In the game Turkey's debt is 700+ billion if I remember right...
What about other countries? Where all the info based on CIA worldfactbook data for 2005 or were they projections for 2015 or some other formula?
Edit: Just checked the game, the debt for Turkey was 507 billion in game, which is still rather too much compared to 161 for now. Even if it is a projection for 2015, it's still too much...
Also I just checked Turkey, it says 161 billion. In the game Turkey's debt is 700+ billion if I remember right...
What about other countries? Where all the info based on CIA worldfactbook data for 2005 or were they projections for 2015 or some other formula?
Edit: Just checked the game, the debt for Turkey was 507 billion in game, which is still rather too much compared to 161 for now. Even if it is a projection for 2015, it's still too much...
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There was not a clean standard set for determining the country debt. For the scenarios that I did;
(Debt - external) + (Public debt x GDP)
So for Yemen I would get $5.7B + (35.9% of 17.23B) which is ~ 12.5
but, as mentioned, I did 35.9, not 0.359...
We have since determined that we should not include the public debt, only the external debt, but since I was just adjusting one region I simply fixed the equation.
(Debt - external) + (Public debt x GDP)
So for Yemen I would get $5.7B + (35.9% of 17.23B) which is ~ 12.5
but, as mentioned, I did 35.9, not 0.359...
We have since determined that we should not include the public debt, only the external debt, but since I was just adjusting one region I simply fixed the equation.
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... what do you mean by fixed? When we play tested the scenarios it was with the current debt and most worked out okay. Unless there is a specific problem with the debt such as this one we're not likely to change it. That would just increase the size of the downloads. While using "just" external debt is a better balance, both menthods are acceptable when creating a scenario.
Yemen probably slipped past because we figured the economy collapse was because it was Yemen. It is one of the worlds lowest GDP/c. It was an oversight on our part.
Yemen probably slipped past because we figured the economy collapse was because it was Yemen. It is one of the worlds lowest GDP/c. It was an oversight on our part.