Economic Protocols

[EEL123]

What do the mods think of this: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4870?

[elryacko]

...isn't the current exchange rate system broken?

[Siggon Kristov]

The Karavs launched something that allows all nations to be compared. It will always be up to date. Remember, it was done ICly, which is why I used BEL instead of LOD. Anyone is free to make an LOD version, but what does it really matter? If everything is in 1 currency, regardless of which currency it is, it works to allow comparison.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AleiEe4YHb35dDN5UDB6UWVuZlpIbjRSZ1MzTjlPY1E
I've taken the liberty and updated the economic information, including current national GDPs, LOD GDPs and defense %s and budgets in LOD.

How often is this updated? And only Defense and budgets are there. Since players cannot commit to projects like this, I ensured that mine has a "Refresh" feature that takes 30-120 seconds to update all the information, so you don't have to use a sheet that hasn't been updated in over 4 days (2 years in-game). You can check almost anything, and the nations are ranked for each thing you check: GDP, total government spending, spending in each ministry, etc. (Check it out yourselves and see what it's missing; the only thing it's missing is Corporation Tax)

...isn't the current exchange rate system broken?

I don't think the rates change anymore, but the rates are still in effect, IC.

[Afrocentric]

The Karavs launched something that allows all nations to be compared. It will always be up to date. Remember, it was done ICly, which is why I used BEL instead of LOD. Anyone is free to make an LOD version, but what does it really matter? If everything is in 1 currency, regardless of which currency it is, it works to allow comparison.

It matters because LOD is the currency in which we rank nations on economics. They're considered to be the standard given the strength of their currency.

[Siggon Kristov]

The Karavs launched something that allows all nations to be compared. It will always be up to date. Remember, it was done ICly, which is why I used BEL instead of LOD. Anyone is free to make an LOD version, but what does it really matter? If everything is in 1 currency, regardless of which currency it is, it works to allow comparison.

It matters because LOD is the currency in which we rank nations on economics.

Regardless of which currency is used, the ranking would remain the same, as long as everything is converted to that currency.
As I said... Anyone is free to make an LOD version.

For whoever is interested in the BEL version, which serves the same purpose, feel free to download it.

[Opakidabar]

Which nations are established in Terra as a tax havens or offshore financial centers?

[Jalal Al-e-Ahmad]

Baltusia certainly is at this point.

[CanFly]

I don't know if this is the right place for this, but... Can anyone tell me what is wrong with Talmoria's economy? We can't possibly not make any money from taxes at all. All I see is zero, zero, zero,zero, zero, zero, zero, zero.. It's quite depressing actually...

[Polites]

The countries that were last added to the game, meaning Sekowo, Lourenne, and Talmoria do not have functioning economies. They also do not show on the world map.

[CanFly]

Aww bummer.