Which game has a more realistic economy

[xjulep]

Sword of the Stars or Mount&Blade Warband? Bonus option Victoria II

[Fulano]

All three games are in completely different genres... What are you looking for exactly?

The economy of this game is completely simplified down to "population and trade ships give money" so it's probably the least realistic.

[frumple]

You left out Colin McRae Rally 2. An obvious contender for more realistic economy.

But the correct answer is Tetris.
Although Jump 'n Bump is the more chocolatey answer.

[Hammon]

Escrito originalmente por Fulano:

All three games are in completely different genres... What are you looking for exactly?

The economy of this game is completely simplified down to "population and trade ships give money" so it's probably the least realistic.

You forgot to factor in industrial output, but yeah. That is pretty much it.

[desrtfox071]

Escrito originalmente por xjulep:

Sword of the Stars or Mount&Blade Warband? Bonus option Victoria II

CDDA of course :)

[xjulep]

There's trade, IO, taxes, debt financing, loans (pro tip: you can ask aliens for money and they will give it to you for free), you can blow up trade routes or pirate them

You can wipe out the workers of a planet OR wipe out the infrastructure and they have different effects. it doesn't matter how much money you have if your IO is not enough. But you can also make so much money from interest that you never have to worry about it.

There's slavery (not in M&B unfortunately). There's also immigrant labor which requires altering your culture and climate hazard (JUST LIKE IRL :) )

Warband has a system where villages make basic commodities (primary sector) and carry them to cities whose urban craftsmen manufacture secondary sector goods like tools. You can exploit this. If villages are destroyed the prices in the entire world economy will reflect this (in the code - in game it's not noticeable). Trade caravans take goods between cities and the financial wellbeing of a city, which effects how much tax revenue it generates and probably a few other details like goods volume in the local markets are impacted by bandits preventing trade. Or the player.

If you economically ravage an enemy kingdom by assaulting their peasants, villages, trade caravans, and anyone who makes money by producing commidities instead of looting and levying taxes the enemy lords will have smaller and worse armies because they can't afford to re-levy troops. This is a legit strategy in the game

You can also start businesses in warband where you pay for labor and goods and take the surplus profits


I guess star sector is supposed to be good with this kind of thing? They have black markets etc

[easytarget]

Offworld Trading Company.

[Hirmikss™]

OpenTTD

https://www.openttd.org/
hell its even free

[ashbery76]

SOTS is the most abstracted and hence the most realistic because no game can model an economy.

Not even the clowns who run it in the real world have a clue.

[easytarget]

Fun watching you pop up randomly with hot takes and then disappear again.