Economy

• For luxury income see here.

  Cycle End (CE):

  • Approximately every 10 hours a "Cycle End" occurs.
  • During this short phase, production of minerals, influx of new workers & your credit budget is calculated.
  • All new workers and minerals are added to your starbase fleet.
  • The budget is added or deducted from your available credits.
  • You can see the time remaining in the cycle by hovering over the credits panel

    Cycle End Sequence :

    • Ships suffer out of supply & get repaired
    • Production of workers & minerals
    • Production of nanobits
    • Production of tradeunits (agreements done when budget applied below)
    • Domestic shipments sent
      ---- Above here debt is based on the previous credit balance ----
    • Budget is applied and new credit balance dictates debt
    • Research done
    • Training applied

  Taxation :

  • Taxation is specific to each star.
  • High taxes result in the following:
    - Increases credit income from habitat taxation.
    - Decreases credit income from mercantiles.
    - Reduces immigration and increases emmigration causing less new manpower.
  • The tax rate can be set on the Tax Panel of domestic stars.
  • The values in the following table are per level per cycle.

    Tax Rate Effects
    Tax Rate	Tax Income per Habitat Level	Net Income (Support Deducted)	New Workers per Habitat Level
    0%	0	-10	60
    10%	0	-10	50
    20%	0	-10	40
    30%	0	-10	30
    40%	0	-10	20
    50%	0	-10	10

    Mercantile Income :

    • Mercantile income is based on the habitat and mercantile level and is modified by the tax rate.
    • A high tax level can result in a net loss due to the support cost of merchantiles.
    • You can see you don't really want mercantiles at stars that will have consistently high tax rates.

  Imperial Bonds :

  • Each bond is worth 10,000 credits.
  • Purchasing a bond costs 10,300 credits.
  • Each bond generates 100 credits interest each cycle, but decreases the more bonds you hold.
  • Purchase or redeem bonds on the economic report panel.
  • Building up your bonds supply is good insurance for the future.
  • Holding too many bonds increases social demands, which reduces contentment.
    +1 social demands for each bond over 30.

    Reasons to hold bonds :

    • Generates interest income on dormant funds.
    • Use to buy off a troublesome interloper.
    • Use to pay for high fleet repair costs during a war.
    • Cover a sudden loss of your tradegood income (due to wars, embargos or loss of territory).
    • Purchase a special artifact, ship or other item that becomes available.
    • Surest way out of a surprise debt situation.

  Subsidies :

  Subsidy Sources
  Source	Amount
  Sovereignty	The top liege in a fealty hierarchy receives 500 per rank per cycle
  Liege	See Liege Patronage
  Vassals	See Vassal Tribute
  Tyranny	1,000 per controlled council seat
  Cultural Awards	1,000 Trade subsidy per award
  Adoration	Based on average contentment of population : Average Contentment Subsidy per Cycle 100 20 250 125 500 500 750 1,125 1000 2,000

  • Subsidy sources are divided by the subsidy ratio when they are received.
  • Once aportioned, they may not be converted back.
  • Use the resuting "Build Subsidy" and "Ship Subsidy" to reduce costs within the build panel.
  • Subsidies may not be used in conjunction with amortization or component use.
  • When the subsidise option is used, the credit and nanobit costs are reduced by 50%.
    The subsidy amount used up is equal to (50% credit cost) + (15% nanobit cost)
    
    Example :
    
    A project that costs 1,000 workers, 1,000 credits & 1,000 nanobits
    Would be reduced to 1,000 workers, 500 credits & 500 nanobits
    And the available subsidy total would be reduced by 650 (500 + 150).

  Debt :

  WARNING : Debt can easily cause the destruction of your realm.
  Ensure a positive credit balance is maintained.
  
  
  • Debt is when your credits on hand (available credits) falls below zero.
  • 5% interest is charged on outstanding debt.
  • You may not build structures or ships while in debt.
  • No research is generated while in debt.
  • No repairs are made while in debt.
  • No experience is gained from an academy while in debt.
  • No contentment increase from rec centers while in debt.

    Getting out of Debt :

    • Check for high outflows on the economic report.
    • Check your budget history chart to see what has changed.
    • Increase taxes on some stars.
    • Sell resources at a sector market.
    • Cancel a buy offer placed at a sector market.
    • Redeem an Imperial bond.
    • Disband some fleets.
    • Demolish some structures.
    • Ask another realm for help with a proposal.

  Pillage :

  • Pillaging is carried out by:
    a) raiders
    b) privateers
    c) Fleets at war
  • Loot is credits pillaged from stars.
  • Only realm stars may be pillaged, not NPC stars.
  • Pillaging occurs at the end of cycle, any raider, privateer or fleet at war at a star, will pillage credits from the star owner.
  • The higher the level the habitat, the more is pillaged, maximum loot is 100 per habitat level.
  • Raiders (not privateers or fleets at war) also pillage luxuries at the same rate as loot.
  • The larger the pillaging fleet, the more is looted, see table in piracy values.
  • If the fleet is a privateer or fleet at war, the fleet owner gets the credits.
  • Ships that are "Out of supply" do not pillage.
  • Only certain ship designs may pillage, based on piracy values.