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   1 .TH Command BUDGET
   2 .NA budget "Look at a national balance sheet"
   3 .LV Basic
   4 .SY "budget"
   5 The budget command predicts expenses and income for the next update.
   6 .s1
   7 .EX budget
   8 .NF
   9 Sector Type                     Production                          Cost
  10 park                            850 happy                           7650
  11 defense plant                   115 guns                            3600
  12 shell industry                  679 shells                          2097
  13 technical center                66 tech                            27000
  14 research lab                    7 medical                            900
  15 library/school                  1616 edu                           14544
  16 refinery                        388 petrol                           425
  17 enlistment center               930 mil                             2790
  18 Unit building                   6 units                              358
  19 Unit maintenance                85 units                           28992
  20 Ship building                   2 ships                              480
  21 Ship maintenance                25 ships                            6327
  22 Plane building                  9 planes                            2508
  23 Plane maintenance               219 planes                          8874
  24 Sector building                 25 sectors                          2398
  25 Sector maintenance              5 sectors                            300
  26 Military payroll                7648 mil, 338 res                  38247
  27 Total expenses....................................................147490
  28 Income from taxes               320709 civs, 100235 uws           +92513
  29 Income from bars                7986 bars                         +95832
  30 Total income.....................................................+188345
  31 Balance forward                                                    41617
  32 Estimated delta                                                   +40855
  33 Estimated new treasury.............................................82472
  34 .FI
  35 .s1
  36 The estimated delta may not be correct, due to events during updates:
  37 starvation, plague, sector revolts, etc.
  38 .s1
  39 Budget takes into account avail and materials in headquarters,
  40 harbors and airports, and will
  41 only show you how much you'll pay for work that will actually get done
  42 in cases where your headquarters/airports/harbors will not have enough avail
  43 or materials to work on all units/planes/ships.
  44 .s1
  45 .L "Going broke"
  46 .s1
  47 The first thing you need to know about going broke: don't!  Stuff you
  48 can't afford will not be made.  Lack of maintenance will damage your
  49 assets.  Worst of all, because many commands are not available while
  50 you're broke, you'll be helpless until you become solvent again
  51 .s1
  52 There is no easy way to predict what exactly will still be paid for
  53 when you go broke during an update.  Try info \*QUpdate-sequence\*U.
  54 .s1
  55 .L "Cutting cost"
  56 .s1
  57 The orthodox way to balance your budget is to sack a neighbor.  In
  58 case that isn't possible right now, a few tips:
  59 .s1
  60 Stop expensive sectors, ships, planes and land units.  See the
  61 \*Qstart\*U and \*Qstop\*U commands for how.
  62 .s1
  63 Instead of stopping a sector, you can throttle it by moving out some
  64 of the raw materials required for production.  The \*Qproduction\*U
  65 command can help you fine tune.
  66 .s1
  67 Trim your military.  Consider demobilizing.
  68 .s1
  69 .SA "Sector-types, Maintenance, Nations, Updates, Update-sequence, demobilize, production, start, stop"