Talk:Economics

Heh... this just happened to me, actually. I had just recently completed my worldwide radar coverage, so the money was just ROLLING in... I wanted to build Laser Tanks, and my Avenger fleet, so I converted 2 bases into giant workshops...

It was only when end of the month came that I realised that my maintainence had ballooned from 12m to 20m... and my income had only grown from 8m to 9m. Upon checking the graphs, I realised that my expenditure for the prior 4 months had been somewhat steady around $15 million per month. During July? I spent $80 million. 10 Workshops = 8 million, 400 engineers = 20 million, I'm not sure where the rest came from, it was probably the input costs of building all those laser cannons during the last few days of the month.

Starting cash

Looking at initial money vs funding, your initial cash is always $1,860,000 less than your initial funding. This $1.86M is probably made up of the first 3 rows (only) of your initial Monthly Costs: $500K transport rental, $1200K Interceptor rental, and $160K salary (not hiring fees) for 8 Soldiers. The salary (and hiring fees) for 10 Scientists and 10 Engineers are ignored. The Base Maintenance costs, $224K for a standard starting base, are also ignored. This generosity saves you at least $774K. Could this be considered a bug? Possibly. Spike 20:57, 12 March 2010 (EST)