| Adam (Fearless Blue) | Sunday, June 8, 2008 - 03:20 pm 
When I make a weapon or ammo purchase, it looks like that gets amortized out over a period of some game months and charged against defense expense for a time. Is that true?
Does anyone know the amortization period?
Adam |
| Kevin Henry | Sunday, June 8, 2008 - 03:35 pm
Not true...there's actually two separate issues:
1) Depending on the market situation it may take multiple months to purchase the weapons/ammo. It depends simply on market shortages.
2) Issue two is military spending space. Say you buy 2,000 helicopters. It may take more than one month to actually purchase these from the market, since they are typically in shortages. However, all 2,000 are deducted from your spending space immediately. What I think you may be seeing is your spending space doesn't jump back up to the max of 750B after one month. How fast it increases depends on the economic situation of your country (and also, obviously, any new military purchases you conduct).
Kevin |
| Adam (Fearless Blue) | Sunday, June 8, 2008 - 09:43 pm
Let me give you some of my observations.
1. I made a lot of military purchases in my 2 countries in the last 10 days of May. Regularly hitting the limit.
2. At no point did my monthly income go negative, though it did drop significantly. I also regularly checked my trades pending, and I never had a significant backlog on purchases largely because I was trying to buy weapons that were in surplus.
3. My financial index went downward with increasing steepness. It flattened out a week ago (a week after the last military purchases) and just turned upward on Friday.
4. As the FI started turning up, the defense budget started going down, quite inexplicably.
From those observations, I wondered if weapons purchases were amortized over time. Any thoughts?
Adam |
| Sun Tzu (Golden Rainbow) | Monday, June 9, 2008 - 02:12 am
Did your weapons start automatically deactivating or did you change the goverment salary level at any time? |
| Adam (Fearless Blue) | Monday, June 9, 2008 - 03:24 am
The weapons started automatically deactivating. No change in salaries.
Also, cash on hand often showed negative numbers, though my monthly income was positive.
Adam |
| Kevin Henry (Kebir Blue) | Monday, June 9, 2008 - 03:43 am
Deactivated weapons cost less to maintain than active weapons. This lowered your military spending, helping your FI.
Your cash on hand was negative because the cost of the weapons you were purchasing was greater than your monthly income.
Again, weapon purchases are not amortized over time. |
| Adam (Fearless Blue) | Monday, June 9, 2008 - 04:27 am
I would reactive the weapons each month. Compared to the overall size of my military the deactivated units were insignificant.
I would see drops in cash of $600 - $800B due to weapons purchases in a month. If those purchases had been figured straight into my profit/loss, I should have seen similar numbers in monthly income/loss statements. It didn't happen, so there is an accounting issue here that I would like to figure out.
Adam |
| FarmerBob (Little Upsilon) | Monday, June 9, 2008 - 05:19 am
Start tracking your defense spending on your finance page. Note changes when new weapons come online. |
