brycej

Join Date 04/2003

What happens if your money goes into the red?

I tend to use the super-ability SuperHive which allows to build factories quickly
and on the cheap (90 bc for a basic factory). This allows me to expand quickly but
it also puts a quick drain on my economy. To combat that, I have use most of my
intitial technology in building toward stock exchange, star federation, and morale builders. Also go looking for anomalies that bring in money (they aren't as lucrative) as in DL.

Sometimes I gotten close to 0 in money. I have turn back the sliders to cut my deficits til I can bring in more money as noted above.

Here my question: what happens if you go below 0 in money?
Wrong answer: total protonic reversal.
What is the answer? I suppose I could save and try it. But somebody knows.

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You can go to -500bc and then all production and research will shutdown till you get back over the -500 point.

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Hi!

what happens if you go below 0 in money?

If you stay in debt for some longer period of time, your pop will become less happy with you - the morale will drop slightly.
If you go really deep in debt (several thousands BCs) and play at low difficulty level, your debt will change to -2000 BC. At what diff. level that stops working I can't tell.

BR, Iztok

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Your computer blows up. No just kidding, I've been roughly 10000 bcs in debt. Eventually things turned around, But I did take a whallop from the AI. It happened as the Korath, I used sporre ships at the beginning of the game and took out all my neighbors very early on and the pop was not increasing. I eventually destroyed 3/4s of my colonies to save the money and ended where I started with two less civs.

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If my economy is strong enough, I'll somtimes go deeply into the red to do something like a fleet wide upgrade. Takes some dead turns to get back in the black, but I've never had anything nasty happen because of it. Of course, you have to careful. You could end up in a bind if you need production or cash right away. I usually only do it later in the game when I'm making big money.

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Mystikmind

Join Date 06/2004

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When i was a new player, i had my economy go south many times. My gov spending would end up stuck on 10% for hours, so if i dared to put the difficulty level up, i would get wiped out as a result. I even had my economy going backwards at 0% gov spending, and i had not even used contractors!!

It took me some time to realise that the economy is not like it is in most other games, it is pretty much a basket case by default, and it is up to players to take action to make it work.

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Yea, that's the thing about GC2, the economy requires constant care and tending. But, that's a fun part of the game for me.

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Mystikmind

Join Date 06/2004

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Yea, that's the thing about GC2, the economy requires constant care and tending. But, that's a fun part of the game for me.

I would have to agree but sometimes i do get a bit tired of being held back from expanding the way i want, The economy does often feel like a ball and chain.

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I usually start building economy centers and then start buying them watching spending as i go. i build up to 4 or five on a planet depending on the available tiles. Then tech trade with other good civ's . I especially look if they have economic improvments i can trade . Also it helps to build more than 1 survey ship and more than 1 space miner.

oh i have been in -500 debt before

By brycej
Posted August 31, 2007 17:12:10
What happens if your money goes into the red?

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Mystikmind

Join Date 06/2004

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oh i have been in -500 debt before

That all? hehehe try accidently upgrading a fleet of advanced ships late game,,,, (ahem stutter, stutter) yea um....

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I would have to agree but sometimes i do get a bit tired of being held back from expanding the way i want, The economy does often feel like a ball and chain.

Oh yea, it's a *big* ball and chain. But I can usually "get over the hump" and not be that limited. However, the economy is brutal in Dark Avatar and I can't get over the hump until much later in the game.

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