Those tech.s I was selling were first and second class (top-level space research, high level civilian and third level weaponries)
and my orders still said to take care of debt the first round if I didn't get money for it - might've had a parenthesis wrapping and insulating it, but it was still there (I'm 80% sure) and in spirit - yeppers.
It's like the interim government took my orders (50% economy, 5% education aimed towards economicists, propaganda and space - in that orders - with all future tech. sales (14%) to be reinvested into economy) - ignored the big whooping
50-69 procent priority and invested a 158 eco. the first two rounds in nothing but expenditures thus collapsing the economy and THEN siphoned off the cash to their own pockets before sometime 7-8 years out into the grind they thought 'hey we got like tons of oil stocked up' 'let's sell some of it to other countries and have the press brag on about us'
so you see why they had to face execution
I'm still hoping for the imfamous re-roll though
but I'll cope
and the rest of the update was great
I just happen not to like my part at all
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CU priorities: 57.5% Economy
CU economy 1970: 54 eco. points per round
... a reasonable government that is spend-happy 'ignores' economic orders and only spend half of the 50% and neglect the economic support functions through education and research... that's still a whopping 13-14 eco. payback without any of the exclusive, semi-exclusive and other research I had in the first round.
13-14 eco. would account for in between 65-70% of the debt and that from a highly irresponsible government - a 50% economic projection would have payed back the 20 eco. loans by 27 and as you see there is 7 eco. points
Even with extremely atrocious interest rates, a flat 27 would deal with any problems.
Therefore the interim government MUST have ignored with orders to spend money solely on projects and improvements to the nation (none of which have been statted) in egragacious amounts - including the taking up of further loans.
My conclusion, the CU interim government DIRECTLY DISOBEYED orders by increasing loans and spending money on faerie-cake.
Math was of course not a part of this, I know Goover wanted to shake down the countries to a new economic 'feel' that's a bit more wealthy then before - but fact is - at the end of the game the CU was the undisputed statistic eco.-superpower and would have been able to handle atrocious interest rates at less then one half of the projected spending on economy.
Not to mention paying back the debt was Primary in a Parenthesis BEFORE any of the other percentages or even anything else. I put in the parenthesis and specified to use tech-sales because I had something close to a micro-wave for the civilians coming up and was ready to sell all the space-research, being the second-most advanced nation in space. Even without the tech.-sales I'm not sure but I'm pretty confident I mentioned something about 'if not' perhaps not in the specific last orders, but probably - and even if that didn't happen I think the most rational thing would be to remove the parenthesis - I mean it was the first thing mentioned in the entire orders.
The tech.s. were good. Not to mention the current government policy was to pay back the debt immediately.
Well to think about it more closely, I might have 'cleaned up' PM by taking away the part about - spend money on it anyway (and maybe I didn't) because the technologies with the one that would be completed next round were good and worth at least 20 eco.
mmmmf, sorta bummed
I just think it's sort of silly, with no confusion in orders and no war as the CU it'll be real easy for me to zip past the others in stat-eco. in the next twenty turns while simultaneously upping my military to monstrous. +75 eco. per round?
The only way I'd be able to end up with these sort of statistics on my own would be to spend nothing at all. That's the only way debt could-destroy my +108 eco. yearly surplus of which the primary (first thing in orders) was to clear out debts
(the debt was at 20)
And the space colonization was my primary mission for the whole game!
The original order came in:
PAY DEBT
BUY MILITARY FOR SUPRESSION of crowds of ingrates
90% space
which should have been a hint towards my priorities,
I had a SELF-SUFFICIENT moonbase on Luna coming up in a few rounds for less then half a semesterly budget and an option to buy it for less then a semesterly imploded budget a year later
It's like the CU's stats. and my orders were completely ignored. I mean the update was great and it wasn't personal, but what happened?
How could the most economically powerful country in the whole world ignore the orders of President and Financial Minister and be uncapable of dealing with a mere 15-20% debt? Not to mention the country had specific resources earmarked for paying it off.
What gives man? What gives?
Well I whinged enough now - all I'm saying is I'm asking for a reroll.
I'm sure I'm believed on the part of paying of the debt.
I don't really do the 'hindsight' PM GM thing. I believed Silver too btw. - more often then not people speak the truth.
Thanks for your time reading this.
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