I don't understand the economy or budget

[Veksu]

The game is too vague with explaining the player how the game mechanics work. I was green and growing most time of the game, but what it means? Should i stay always at 0?

First i thought that there is some kind of mechanic that i would get money monthly or something, but i have no idea how were to see my income i may expect etc. How could i make any plans if there is no reference point or some kind of system of telling me how my country is making and bleeding money. I did not know that i just get budget back randomly.

First i loved this game, it was interesting and well written - but the at the end i was just frustrated and even little bit angry. Unfortunately the game left a sour taste in my mouth. Still i had a many good times with it.

[firestarter]

Green and red represents the growth of the economy not the budget

The budget seems to suggest that expenses and income are mostly stable and only specific decisions give you/cost you a small amount of money

That is for the base game BTW, the DLC uses a vastly different economic system

[Perception312]

The economic indicator (the line) is mostly useless. I find it more informative to go to overview > economy > situations and look at how each region is doing. The budget, at least, gives you a concrete number to look at, but it doesn't tell you the hidden mechanics that determine whether you have too much debt or not. Those mechanics depend on certain checkpoints – the main things to remember are to never go below -10, to be at -7 or higher immediately after the conversation about privatizing education.

[Ulthar]

I've had it where I was inspiring business, lowering taxes, keeping regulation low, etc and somehow the game just punish me in a later chapter and declare depression, despite having had massive success in previous chapters.

[Veksu]

Originally posted by Perception312:

The economic indicator (the line) is mostly useless. I find it more informative to go to overview > economy > situations and look at how each region is doing. The budget, at least, gives you a concrete number to look at, but it doesn't tell you the hidden mechanics that determine whether you have too much debt or not. Those mechanics depend on certain checkpoints – the main things to remember are to never go below -10, to be at -7 or higher immediately after the conversation about privatizing education.

I would personally needed some guidelines that would direct me to stay within those -7 parameters. When you are first time player, there is no indicator how the debt works. You should know something about your economy when doing those decisions.

I guess i have to play this again and just google and google all the time.

[LahnaMan]

When making decisions on regional investments and infrastructure construction, it is important to make sure they synchronize properly. If for example, you chose to invest in Lorren, I'd recommend building the Morna port to support the mining and manufacturing sectors within that region.