Command : BUDGET


NAME
  budget - Look at a national balance sheet

Level: Basic

SYNTAX
  [##:##] Command : budget

The budget command predicts expenses and income for the next update.

  [##:##] Command : budget

  Sector Type                     Production                          Cost
  park                            850 happy                           7650
  defense plant                   115 guns                            3600
  shell industry                  679 shells                          2097
  technical center                66 tech                            27000
  research lab                    7 medical                            900
  library/school                  1616 edu                           14544
  refinery                        388 petrol                           425
  enlistment center               930 mil                             2790
  Unit building                   6 units                              358
  Unit maintenance                85 units                           28992
  Ship building                   2 ships                              480
  Ship maintenance                25 ships                            6327
  Plane building                  9 planes                            2508
  Plane maintenance               219 planes                          8874
  Sector building                                                     2398
  Military payroll                7648 mil, 338 res                  38247
  City maintenance                5 cities                             300
  Total expenses....................................................147490
  Income from taxes               320709 civs, 100235 uws           +92513
  Income from bars                7986 bars                         +95832
  Total income.....................................................+188345
  Balance forward                                                    41617
  Estimated delta                                                   +40855
  Estimated new treasury.............................................82472

The  estimated delta may not be correct, due to events during updates: starva-
tion, plague, sector revolts, etc.

Budget takes into account avail and materials  in  headquarters,  harbors  and
airports,  and will only show you how much you'll pay for work that will actu-
ally get done in cases where your headquarters/airports/harbors will not  have
enough avail or materials to work on all units/planes/ships.

Going broke

The  first  thing  you need to know about going broke: don't!  Stuff you can't
afford will not be made.  Lack of maintenance will damage your assets.   Worst
of  all, because many commands are not available while you're broke, you'll be
helpless until you become solvent again

There is no easy way to predict what exactly will still be paid for  when  you
go broke during an update.  Try info "Update-sequence".

Cutting cost

The  orthodox  way to balance your budget is to sack a neighbor.  In case that
isn't possible right now, a few tips:

Stop expensive sectors, ships, planes and land units.   See  the  "start"  and
"stop" commands for how.

Instead  of  stopping  a sector, you can throttle it by moving out some of the
raw materials required for production.  The "production" command can help  you
fine tune.

Trim your military.  Consider demobilizing.

SEE ALSO
  Sector-types,  Maintenance,  Nations, Updates, Update-sequence, demobilize,
production, start, stop