BUG: Console Game Development Funding

[GwenBD94]

The game lets you decrease the amount of funding available in the exclusive game development incentive pot, but doesn't give you the money back when you reduce it.

Why is there an option to reduce the value of this pot of money, if the reduce value does disappears? Just lost a billion and a half dollars. X.X (in the grand scheme of thing, that was less than 10% of my overall value, so it isn't the end of the world, but it still sucks)

I will now stop deliberately over-funding this pot in future console releases. X.X

[Chronosuniverse]

The money in the funding pot is not gone! If a developer develops a game exclusively, he gets money from the funding pot and the money goes out of your account. If you put 1,000,000,000 into the pot, all the money is not simply taken from your account. So you haven't lost anything - after all, the money was never gone.

[Kyouko Tsukino]

Yes, as Chronos said, it's not money you have taken off your bank account, until some of the glorified RNGs (aka "NPCs") decides to pretend to use that money for their game (but they really don't because they have infinite money.) So as the old saying goes, "you can't lose what you never had."

You can make a console in 1976 (Sandbox) while only having three or four millions left in the bank, and offer a billion in funding - NPCs will not be able to even come close to that amount. In fact I've never seen them use more than a hundred millions total, and that was in 2040, where "a hundred millions" was a negligible expense.

[GwenBD94]

Trying to figure out what I spent money on that dropped my bank balance from 4.8 billion to 2.5 billion then.. (other than developing two consoles, but I think each one was less than 200mil?)

[Kyouko Tsukino]

Common culprits on big spending: Advertising, salaries, subsidiaries, hundreds of cleaning robots...

[GwenBD94]

Originally posted by Kyouko Tsukino:

Common culprits on big spending: Advertising, salaries, subsidiaries, hundreds of cleaning robots...

I have all of that, and still turn a steady weekly profit, the only time I've ever come close to spending more than what i spend on developing a new console is when I'm buying all the competition, and upgrading them all to 5 stars, then I can blow through a billion like it's cake.

[Yuki]

In doubt your financial information should tell you where it went. Besides the monthly you get from clicking on your funds there is also an annual available in the menu.

Even a thousand legendary staff will barely cost a few millions, cleaning robots neither. Your consoles however: Did you keep the price on "manual" adjustment?
A successful console can easily take billions in production cost. Production not just development, its something you usually dont notice at all because they are sold for a profit (e.g. 10$ per console if auto adjusted).
Now let a semidonductor shortage sweep by and "forget" to adjust prices. The more successful you are the worse.