I don't understand economics

[Slaughtermeyer]

Another item that can account for losses: broken trade treaties. In one of my games I'm getting far more resources from trade than I'm actually producing myself.

[geoschmo]

Gorgo,

I know what your problem is. I will send you an email explaining it.

Geoschmo
PBW Admin Team

[Gorgo]

Thanks, Geoschmo!

Now everything is clear. The player that played the Federation in the beginning had brought an extra cultural trait - "explorers". As the game is standard 1.41, you could not look at his empire without inserting the cultures.txt file he had uploaded. So I used his file (and recommended everyone in the game to do so too), not knowing that it changed many modifiers for most of the cultures.

This changed what has been showing on my empire expenses screen, but as the game on PBW has the original cultures.txt file, it did not affect my production in reality. The surplus was not real, now I'm getting the correct - lower - number of minerals on my screen.

Thanks to everyone that helped me!

Gorgo

[This message has been edited by Gorgo (edited 29 September 2001).]