                               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                 25 sectors                          2398
   Sector maintenance              5 sectors                            300
   Military payroll                7648 mil, 338 res                  38247
   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

