Deficit Bug?

[Buzus]

Was playing with Angola. Everything going smoothly when, sudenly, my deficit goes from 0,23% to 261%!!! Just crazy! Checking the budget i noticed that the Homeland Security/Police budget went from 63M to 10050M! Just crazy! I didn´t do anything to have such deficit, much less on this item. Anyone can help? (of course i´m getting deposed with such deficit, hours of game thrown away...)

[Alice&Gui]

It is a bug. I had that before and the only way i've found to work that around was to start a gameplay with the major economies and give myself aid so i could survive the bug.

[Sarkin]

remember to save frequently.

but it might not be a bug could be as simple as adding an extra 0 somewhere, or your economy could have imploded from an event such as all of the countries deciding to with draw their foreign aid which if it was propping you up coulda lead to the major deficit increase. i know that Angola starts with about 91b in debt in the 2018 free mode rulers scenario, so if you don't start tackling it immediately, you can easily surpass 100% of GDP debt.

[Buzus]

I was expereincing a growth rate of 16% and an inflation of 3,5%. Nothing worng there. The thing is that every items, but the homeland security, were normal. Regarding that one, a second to another it went from spending 63M to 10050M...

[Sarkin]

Originally posted by Buzus:

I was expereincing a growth rate of 16% and an inflation of 3,5%. Nothing worng there. The thing is that every items, but the homeland security, were normal. Regarding that one, a second to another it went from spending 63M to 10050M...

thats a lot of growth . if your interest rate wasn't high , then its possible your inflation jumped 10% could also be you accidentally 'purchased' alot of something you intended to sell, an didn't realize it... i've done that with a few items never catastrophically but like when i meant to sale Maize and ended up buying it.

did you accidentally nationalize something ? established sectors can be a killer expense.

Especially Chemical, or building sectors.

[Michi975]

I also have a problem with my finances. With a surplus of 2.96%, I still make a deficit of 1-3 billion a year without changes, without any change

[Sarkin]

Originally posted by Michi975:

I also have a problem with my finances. With a surplus of 2.96%, I still make a deficit of 1-3 billion a year without changes, without any change

the issue is that the Excess is shown for the yearly income. and not the quarterly.

where as interest is charged every quarter. which if you have say 80billion in debt, with 8 countries charging you various amounts of interest for various amountso f the total 80.

that means at 10% interest you need to be earning about 8billion a quarter atleast. the end of the years large income is the only time i've noticed where you earn enough in a single instance to actually pay off the debt, atleast early on as Angola earning 6B a year in excess and about 1.2B a quarter i was about breaking even with 79b of debt. sadly my save corrupted and wont load without crashing now i think they updated/patched the game But since theres no where to check for patch notes. its hard to know/tell. but the checksum in the lower left corner seems different

[Waffles]

Very late, but I had the same bug with D.R Congo. I think maybe there's a calculation issue with very large numbers. I'm think of retrying while using the dollar as currency so there won't be such large numbers to compute. I'm sad because my personal goal was to turn the D.R congo's currency into a very strong one, competing with the dollar or the euro.