Any sort of manual

[Cacame Awemedinade]

The game is really fun but at times I feel really lost as to why certain things happen or what certain things do.

For example, every game I play the KGB starts to randomly lose power (and me finding them doesn't seem to do much).

How exactly does forgery plans and corruption relate to one another? It seems that when one increase the other decease, and how do they relate to fighting corruption?

What does "other social spending" actually mean?

What does "state mecanism" mean exactly? When should I increase it and decrease?

There are probably more I'm missing right now so a manual or proper guide would be great (the in-game tutorial is pretty bare bones and outdated).

[RealEdge69Hehe]

State Mechanism lowers corruption. It should always have the most funding, or otherwise corruption will skyrocket.

[DasMudPie]

"KGB power" refreshes at the beginning of each month at a rate that depends on their level of funding. Their power decreases each time you use the KGB to perform an action during an event or by interacting on the world map (such as the "eliminate dissent" option for SSRs). "KGB loyalty", "soldiers' loyalty" and "army numbers" also follow this rule.

"Forgery in plans" and "corruption" are two kinds of economic disruption. "Forgery in plans" represents people who steal from work and sell things on the black market. "Corruption" represents government officials who earn suspiciously more than their official salary would indicate... I think "forgery in plans" affects agricultural and industrial productivity. "Corruption" definitely takes money away from the budget as an expense (which is shown in the statistics window). I'm pretty sure that higher "people's income" and more funding for "KGB" help to diminish "forgery in plans". "Corruption" can be taken care of by increasing funding for "KGB", "computerization" and "state mechanism". Too much funding for "services" and, surprisingly, "fight against corruption" increases "corruption".

"Other social spendings" represents the money that goes into social services, such as retirement, insurance, paid vacation, etc. It affects "people's income", which affects many indicators that have to do with people's needs such as "education accessibility", "medicines accessibility", "cultural contentment", etc.

"State mechanism" represents all the money that goes into the bureaucratic state apparatus which makes sure that everything is running according to the five-years plan. It has to have equal of higher funding than everything else. Not enough funding for "state mechanism" makes the economy inefficient, which increases corruption (supposedly because having less state inspectors makes it easier for officials to lie about fulfilling the plan and taking away some of the money destined to whatever project they were in charge of for themselves).

I wrote a guide about the economic system of this game a while back. Although I'm not 100% sure that what I wrote for the "calculator" section is accurate, I'm confident that at least 80% of it is true.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=921587228

I hope this helps!

[Cacame Awemedinade]

@DasMudPie: Thanks! That's really helpful.

[Rossini]

Originally posted by DasMudPie:

"Forgery in plans" and "corruption" are two kinds of economic disruption. "Forgery in plans" represents people who steal from work and sell things on the black market. "Corruption" represents government officials who earn suspiciously more than their official salary would indicate... I think "forgery in plans" affects agricultural and industrial productivity. "Corruption" definitely takes money away from the budget as an expense (which is shown in the statistics window). I'm pretty sure that higher "people's income" and more funding for "KGB" help to diminish "forgery in plans". "Corruption" can be taken care of by increasing funding for "KGB", "computerization" and "state mechanism". Too much funding for "services" and, surprisingly, "fight against corruption" increases "corruption".

I always thought forgery in plan are people in the planned economy who (intentionally or not) produce fake statistics and such. Like when quotas aren't filled but you make paperwork which say they are filled so you don't get punished. It's one of the inherit inefficiencies in the planned economy.

[DasMudPie]

I have to admit that I'm not entirely sure what "forgery in plans" means anymore right now...

I was under the impression that overfulfilling quotas was more a way to get promoted than to avoid punishment in the USSR? Being punished seems quite extreme given the bureaucrats' desire to avoid upsetting political stability.