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evildari
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Supreme Rogue Economics

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a tale of Synthetic Oil and Power exploitation in 5 parts.

Part1: the setup

Only UI-mods, Arena 6A map - region does not matter, though access to synth.oil and petrol power production is necessary.
Startdate: 2020 APRIL 10

Information about the used facilities:
Synth.oil: this type of oil production uses only electricity as input.
Petrol power plant: this powerplant uses only petroleum to produce electricity.
RogueEconomics#1-SynthOilPower.jpg
Started to build several hexes full of petrol power plants and synthetic petrol production.
Hit fastest speed button.

Part 2: the vicious circle starts
New Year 2021
After the petrol plants are finished all other types of electricity production are scrapped.
At first the exponential growth is not seen - as usual in most cases.
2021 JAN 17 now everyone can see it on their bill.
RogueEconomics#2-SynthOilPower.jpg
Part 3: there is no inflation like hyperinflation
2021 FEB 2
Two weeks later , the bill needs another digit.
"Selling conditions are unfavorable" is quit the understatement for a 6digit $ price per barrel.
RogueEconomics#3-SynthOilPower.jpg
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evildari
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Re: Supreme Rogue Economics

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Here are some general stats to get an idea about the state of the region.
I did nothing except build petrol power plants, synth.oil facilities, and scrap all other power types.
RogueEconomics#4-SynthOilPower.jpg
Using my overview mod - the resource overview (which even i dont use it that much)
but here look at the production costs , the upper value, now easily to find due to double the amount of digits or even an M (for Million)
RogueEconomics#5-SynthOilPower.jpg
2021 FEB 12
Ten days later you need another 2 digits.
RogueEconomics#6-SynthOilPower.jpg
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evildari
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Re: Supreme Rogue Economics

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2021 FEB 23
Eleven days later you need another 2 digits.
At least the domestic minister reduced the price markups for petrol, electricity and consumer goods to help with the real (sarcasm) inflation.
RogueEconomics#7-SynthOilPower.jpg
Part 4: Endgame
2021 MAR 6
The last normal day came way faster than anyone expected.
RogueEconomics#8-SynthOilPower.jpg
2021 MAR 7 (remember that day - i tell you)
$-2147483648M Treasury
Welcome to the 32-bit Apocalypse today and not in 2038!
Do not worry this is just a display issue - should you ever go below this threshold (pretty unlikely in this scenario)
it will display "normal" values again.
RogueEconomics#9-SynthOilPower.jpg
But other challenges await for the supreme master of Arena 6A.

Part 5: Singularity
This was first used by the games rogue AI in an old version of my DT-mod,
which did not obey the no-build rule for this synth.oil building in the games .unit file
...fear IT...
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Rosalis
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Re: Supreme Rogue Economics

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Yeah nice. I would have thought the gdp/c would also go up tho, seems your ministers doesnt know how to spend the money. Anyway funny how the demand keeps the same. You would think after a certain point things get too expensive :lol:
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Re: Supreme Rogue Economics

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I've added a note to the existing ticket 23585 about this thread.
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Re: Supreme Rogue Economics

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Rosalis wrote: Dec 01 2020 Yeah nice. I would have thought the gdp/c would also go up tho, seems your ministers doesnt know how to spend the money. Anyway funny how the demand keeps the same. You would think after a certain point things get too expensive :lol:
That's the nature of economy..

To spend the money you need
1) more people
2) more business
3) more branches of economy

imagine someone has everything.. he doesn't want to buy anything.. you can give him 500 Million, he'll just park it on the bank account..

Now you create a new branch, tourism. There's a company that offers walking on glass bridges in the alps, sauna, pool, all-incl..

Suddenly that person wants this, the advertisement is so great, complete new business opened and all-in-one package.. awesome

Now you give this person the money, he'll spend it on tourism. The people there working (remember you need more people) now earn income
and can spend the money at groceries, buying a bike, etc..

Now the money is rotating in economy and economy grows and thus GDP grows..

Simplistic view from me on economy why pumping in money into economy doesn't mean economy actually grows..
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