WTH!!! Can someone explain this nonsense to me (ASAP)

@ Kieth I'm glad you are thinking. This game is only fun if you think and don't become a robot player doing whatever the vets say is the best. Even if it makes you successful it is boring and all you will end up doing is playing catch up to the clones. Another reason why this issue angers me so.

All 8 of my countries were making profits consistently without any issue at all. This is even without collecting taxes, recieving country resource payments, or any profit transfers. I was thrilled I was successful at making a self sustaining country without the unrealistic leaching of corporations. ENTIRELY! Then one day all my costs just decided to skyrocket. Andy says it is because my salaries are too high. This still doesn't make any sense to me as the costs that increased should be unrelated to salaries. In fact the opposite should be true as salaries increase the contra expense streams to these accounts increase to lessen the blow of said expenses.

I tried the forementioned solution of cutting salaries. I systematically cut 50 from all corps in all countries and review the effects and slash again. I'm down from target salaries of 1200 all the way down to 650. Keep in mind these corps do have every precaution set for them to make profit with ease. IE truly public, with supply lines, good corps in shortage etc. Well not really thats all I did really. THE ONLY attributing factor to my losses is that costs still haven't decreased. I am notices a falling in Cost of Government but that can always be coincidental as Andy swears the math is to compicated and impossible to influence. So we don't have even a hint to what influences this expense with the exception of larger empires pay larger amounts. Until I decifer the real cause of this problem my problem can't be fixed, since no one is going through the same problem I have to figure it out my own. I feel like I'll continue with the slicing of salaries a bit longer. But if that doesn't work, then I'm probably going to leave this game. Anyways thanks for the continous advice, yet I feel that I've had a large amount of success beforehand and successfully accomplished a goal of mine, so whatever happens happens. Why let something that makes no sense waste my time?

http://churchofsimcountry.webs.com/scfordummies.png

This is how the game works most of the time, like with salaries. Other times, the cost graph is exponential and the revenue graph is linear. Not complicated.

0.o Hark at her!

Who drew the graph Klar (is this Klar? the post smacks of scarlet) your daughter?

It's somewhat more complicated than that as the cost/revenue relation is not that linear, costs have different effects on revenue like salaries give income tax but are a corp cost...

I learned so much from that graph. But until we as a society realize that labor isn't a real expense this kind of humanitarian strategy of mine will be underappreciated.

But now i will Hark! HARK!!!! though I admire how straight the diagnal line was where is thge graph that explains how CRU plays? I'm pretty sure that works as when costs go up costs go up more. When revenues go up costs go up, and when presidents ask for more corps they are like hey lets make CRU go up and up.

I've concluded that Mizore is Scarlet for sure.

Why the silly games Scarlet? Something to hide? embarrassed?

Definetely is um I forget what post I looked at but there was a post by scarlet and now its Miziore the easy way to check would be to look at his/her nihilistic posts in the arab springs thread.

I felt like taking the name of an anime character that I'm fond of, so I did. Figured it would be fairly apparent this is the same account with the same person. Don't know or care if someone else used the name... besides, I really can't think of anyone in the game I'd rather pretend to be than Scarlet. ;)

And I thought this childish pretending to be someone else had died out when Jess/wildeyes/BA went quiet.

http://rosariovampire.wikia.com/wiki/Mizore_Shirayuki

Does anyone know what happened here yet?

Wow, so THIS is how soccer riots start!

The question is now, what is the safest high salaries can we have without corruption?

Funny thread.

On day Drew was saying ..don't pay attention to the vets in the game, they have an old way of thinking. You have to think out of the box...

Next thing ya know he had salaries up over 1200 or so thinking that production and then profits would increase in proportion.

He should have asked a vet!

To answer your question: When you push past 400, ya need to keep a close eye on things. I haven't gone there in a long time.

Someone can probably give you a more specific answer.