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Debt Yemen

Post by BigStone »

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 :o

According to the CIA factbook i thing a starting debt of 60B would be
more likely... :-?
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I will check it, sounds like we made a typo...

Guess we shouldn't start an online banking service yet ;)
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Post by Balthagor »

You where correct about Yemen's debt being wrong (seems we both made a typo ;) )

Seems my formula was 39.5, not 0.395 :oops:

Will be fixed in update 5
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Post by margab »

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...
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Post by Balthagor »

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.
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So are the other countries going to be fixed too?
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Post by Balthagor »

... 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.
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