How to increase income?

[Regime]

How do I increase income for my country?

I am lurching from a positive surplus/deficit (balance) and then slowly into debt (Income < Expenses), due to my income falling down massively.

How do I increase trade and is it worth investing money in the Resources tab?

Thanks.

Example:

One second I have 200,000,000,000 income, and the next, it drops down to 90,000,000,000 and I'm in the red. I have no idea why this is happening.

[Regime]

I've had a look around and I could be experiencing the bug that the Wikipedia page is referencing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPower_2#Bugs) - Autarky.

I'm not so sure though.

Can anyone comment on this?

[Partizan]

Autarky is commonplace in Vanilla SP2. Basically all the world is self sufficient, therefore, trade ceases. Hence why your economy begins to decline, I recommend using god_43 mod as it's removed autarky to come into effect, because realistically, consumption would always continue to grow, this allows for that, and makes consumption grow a hell of alot faster.

[Regime]

Originally posted by Infamous:

Autarky is commonplace in Vanilla SP2. Basically all the world is self sufficient, therefore, trade ceases. Hence why your economy begins to decline, I recommend using god_43 mod as it's removed autarky to come into effect, because realistically, consumption would always continue to grow, this allows for that, and makes consumption grow a hell of alot faster.

Thanks for the reply.

[Partizan]

Also if you're looking to invest and grow your economy, to invest, you click on the sector you want to invest in and click on increase production, I advise you have low sector taxes as this boosts economic growth, too high sector tax cripples it.

[Regime]

Originally posted by Infamous:

Also if you're looking to invest and grow your economy, to invest, you click on the sector you want to invest in and click on increase production, I advise you have low sector taxes as this boosts economic growth, too high sector tax cripples it.

Ok, thanks.

There was one time where I invested, and there was a temporary increase in production, before falling back down (so my investment was wasted).

What happened there?

[Partizan]

Someone has a greater market share than you and their economy has grown more than your investment. Thus pushing you down again.

[Tok'ra Operative]

Conquer the US; that would most certainly increase your income!

[JasseBasse]

Originally posted by Regime:

Originally posted by Infamous:

Also if you're looking to invest and grow your economy, to invest, you click on the sector you want to invest in and click on increase production, I advise you have low sector taxes as this boosts economic growth, too high sector tax cripples it.

Ok, thanks.

There was one time where I invested, and there was a temporary increase in production, before falling back down (so my investment was wasted).

What happened there?

However, your avarege income per capita increases as well, albeit small, but it mostly stays there, which eventually will increase your tax revenue. bit of catch 22 though...

[JamieBhoy]

Simple, Just lower you're health care and education to the half way mark, Lower properganda all the way down, Higher infastructure all the way to max along with goverment, If you have goverment set to low you'll actually lose a ton of money to corruption but if you're playing as American or the UK this is not need as there usually isn't any corruption, Also use the trade market and buy Ceral and Vegtables ect also buying tobacco is pretty good, The best thing you can do though is higher the tax rate to about 70% and lower the interest rate all the way down to 0% until you are making tons of money from you're infastructure :)

[JamieBhoy]

This is what you're income should be like after you've done all of that also it does take a bit of time!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=313235909

[Regime]

Originally posted by JamieBhoy09:

Simple, Just lower you're health care and education to the half way mark, Lower properganda all the way down, Higher infastructure all the way to max along with goverment, If you have goverment set to low you'll actually lose a ton of money to corruption but if you're playing as American or the UK this is not need as there usually isn't any corruption, Also use the trade market and buy Ceral and Vegtables ect also buying tobacco is pretty good, The best thing you can do though is higher the tax rate to about 70% and lower the interest rate all the way down to 0% until you are making tons of money from you're infastructure :)

By buying do you mean increasing production, or something different?

[JamieBhoy]

Yes, That's what i meant to say sorry. Hope that helps for you though.

[Regime]

Originally posted by JamieBhoy09:

Yes, That's what i meant to say sorry. Hope that helps for you though.

Don't worry about it.

Thanks for the advice.