Info: budget

COMMAND NAME
budget - Look at a national balance sheet

LEVEL
Basic

SYNTAX
budget

The budget command predicts expenses and income for the next update. [##:##] Command : budget

Sector Type                    Production 		            Cost park                           850 happy  		            7650 defense plant                  115 guns   		            3600 shell industry                 679 shells 		            2097 technical center               66 tech    		           27000 research lab                   7 medical  		             900 library/school                 1616 edu   		           14544 refinery                       388 petrol 		             425 enlistment center              930 mil    		            2790 Unit building                  6 units    		             358 Unit maintenance               85 units   		           28992 Ship building                  2 ships    		             480 Ship maintenance               25 ships   		            6327 Plane building                 9 planes   		            2508 Plane maintenance              219 planes 		            8874 Sector building			25 sectors      		    2398 Sector maintenance		5 sectors      		     300 Military payroll               7648 mil, 338 res                  38247 Total expenses....................................................147490 Income from taxes              320709 civs, 100235 uws           +92513 Income from bars               7986 bars                         +95832 Total income.....................................................+188345 Balance forward                                                   41617 Estimated delta                                                  +40855 Estimated new treasury.............................................82472 The estimated delta may not be correct, due to events during updates: starvation, plague, sector revolts, etc.

Budget takes into account avail and materials in headquarters, harbors and airports, and will only show you how much you'll pay for work that will actually get done in cases where your headquarters/airports/harbors will not have enough avail or materials to work on all units/planes/ships.

Going Broke
The first thing you need to know about going broke: don't! Stuff you can't afford will not be made. Lack of maintenance will damage your assets. Worst of all, because many commands are not available while you're broke, you'll be helpless until you become solvent again

There is no easy way to predict what exactly will still be paid for when you go broke during an update. Try Info: Update-sequence.

Cutting Cost
The orthodox way to balance your budget is to sack a neighbor. In case that isn't possible right now, a few tips:

Stop expensive sectors, ships, planes and land units. See the "start" and "stop" commands for how.

Instead of stopping a sector, you can throttle it by moving out some of the raw materials required for production. The "production" command can help you fine tune.

Trim your military. Consider demobilizing.