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Keith Allaire (Little Upsilon)
13 Jan 2009 20:33
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Recently the Game Gods have announced that they intend to deflate game money, and reduce the amount of game cash in the worlds. Both income and cost would decline, in such a scenario.
Instead, my income has declined, while my costs have NOT--especially in my main nation, which has not increased the size of the army in several real months, has not made education investments in at least a real month, has not bought transport infrastructure in at least a real month, and has bought very few hospitals as population and HI have leveled off.
Yeah, my income is declining, alright. My costs, however, are CONSTANT. (I recognize that they'll go up in my slaves due to military, but this should NOT be happening in my main.)
My monthly cost in Evil Woody Thoughts 0 CEO tax is the same ~265B per game month that it was before the 23 December game announcement. Despite the announced intention of deflation, my costs have not declined AT ALL in spite of me not doing anything that would increase expenditures this drastically.
In the same time, my income has declined by 100B+/game month, which would not be that big of a deal if the costs were declining in similar proportion.
Instead my financial index has fallen more than 25 points since the 23 December announcement, and continues to fall. The economy in my main has not altered in any substantial fashion since then--as far as I can tell, the changes are solely due to GM tinkering with numbers and base prices in order to achieve the intended deflation. Nominal value for my main has also declined by about $30 in lost profit capacity value.
I urge Tom to reduce costs faster, instead of reducing only corporate income but leaving the costs of government relatively constant...they should both decline in rough balance. They have not.
Instead, my income has declined, while my costs have NOT--especially in my main nation, which has not increased the size of the army in several real months, has not made education investments in at least a real month, has not bought transport infrastructure in at least a real month, and has bought very few hospitals as population and HI have leveled off.
Yeah, my income is declining, alright. My costs, however, are CONSTANT. (I recognize that they'll go up in my slaves due to military, but this should NOT be happening in my main.)
My monthly cost in Evil Woody Thoughts 0 CEO tax is the same ~265B per game month that it was before the 23 December game announcement. Despite the announced intention of deflation, my costs have not declined AT ALL in spite of me not doing anything that would increase expenditures this drastically.
In the same time, my income has declined by 100B+/game month, which would not be that big of a deal if the costs were declining in similar proportion.
Instead my financial index has fallen more than 25 points since the 23 December announcement, and continues to fall. The economy in my main has not altered in any substantial fashion since then--as far as I can tell, the changes are solely due to GM tinkering with numbers and base prices in order to achieve the intended deflation. Nominal value for my main has also declined by about $30 in lost profit capacity value.
I urge Tom to reduce costs faster, instead of reducing only corporate income but leaving the costs of government relatively constant...they should both decline in rough balance. They have not.
