Re: Re: Spending money on planets

The length of  bar actually is the percentage of your income. So when you
income increase but your bar stays the same, you are spending more money on
the planets.

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From: "larry_fluke" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: [ho5palm] Re: Spending money on planets


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> So, if I run the bar up higher, that means I'm spending more than
> $7500 per turn for that planet, right? So the actual cost for a
> planet is $7500 + the length of the bar?
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> That would mean that the total amount of money a planet earns per 10-
> year turn would be about ((X * population) - $7500 - the bar length),
> where X is the amount of production per inhabitant. Assuming a planet
> with 500,000 people earns $35,000 per 10-year turn, X is $35K/100K =
> 0.07, so each inhabitant earns 7 cents per 10 year turn on an optimal
> planet.
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> So, in order for a planet to break even, it needs enough inhabitants
> to earn $7500, which seems to be just about 100,000 people.
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> Any comments?
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> --- In [email protected], beobot <beobot@y...> wrote:
> > > 2. What effect does a planet's spending bar on the spending
> screen
> > > have? I assume that if you spend more on a planet, you can mine
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> > > terraform more quickly. If I run the bar down to 0, that stops
> mining
> > > and terraforming, right? But the planet still costs the $7500 per
> > > turn, right?
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> > This sounds right to me.
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