Post by terrik on Jul 21, 2014 14:48:27 GMT -5
After reading and playing around a bit I think I understand how most of the economy works. However, I set up a very simple test scenario to understand the numbers a bit better and am a bit confused about one of them. Here's the scenario. I started the tutorial map on easy mode with the standard syndicate factions. I demolished the explorer and two templar ships leaving only the 3 colony hive ships. I colonized a nearby system with the Cadar ship but left the other 2 ships floating in space. I passed one more turn after colonizing with the Cadar ship just to update any economy values. Here are the pertinent screenshots for the one colony and the empire thus far:
Now, the numbers on the *empire* screen make sense to me. If you add up the population, idle (and "activated") CP and the mining point from the starport, you get $69, which we see in the "Economy" of the empire. Since I demolished the other ships, the sole source of maintenance cost I believe should just be the starport, which is $15. I have also read that 10 morale gives -20% on maintenance, which would make maintenance $12. Again, this shows as expected on the empire summary screen for "Colony $" (12/15). But then how come in the lower left of the colony screen it says +56/-13? Shouldn't it be +57/-12? (ie $69 - $12 maintenance = $57 income?) These numbers seem to be 1 off but I don't know why. I know some numbers are initialized with a value of -1...maybe there is some leftover "-1" value somewhere that is affecting the numbers displayed in the colony view? (but oddly not the empire view)
Now, the numbers on the *empire* screen make sense to me. If you add up the population, idle (and "activated") CP and the mining point from the starport, you get $69, which we see in the "Economy" of the empire. Since I demolished the other ships, the sole source of maintenance cost I believe should just be the starport, which is $15. I have also read that 10 morale gives -20% on maintenance, which would make maintenance $12. Again, this shows as expected on the empire summary screen for "Colony $" (12/15). But then how come in the lower left of the colony screen it says +56/-13? Shouldn't it be +57/-12? (ie $69 - $12 maintenance = $57 income?) These numbers seem to be 1 off but I don't know why. I know some numbers are initialized with a value of -1...maybe there is some leftover "-1" value somewhere that is affecting the numbers displayed in the colony view? (but oddly not the empire view)
