Budget report

The budget report gives you detailed breakdown of how you are spending your money and your natural resources.

Within the budget report you can adjust what percent of your money and/or natural resources you are spending on technology, the study of magic and reconnaisance. You also can adjust your tax rate from this menu.

This screen also shows how much money you are spending on military maintenance and other costs inccurred. The only way military maintenance can be lowered is to disband armies. Other costs include but are not limited to the cost of drafting an army and the cost of redesignating sectors.

The Metal and Jewels Breakdown, aside from listing the amounts spent on research and development, show how much of each natural resource is spent. Other metal expenses consist of but are not limited to the construction of citites and the drafting of armies. Other Jewels are used as a maintenance fee for mages.

The commands within this screen are:

• [t] which adjusts your tax rate
• [c] which adjusts your charity rate
• [T] which is technology resarch and development, has a submenu that consists of the choices metal and money.
  • [m] sets the amount of metal you wish to use in R&D
  • [M] sets the amount of money
• [M] puts you into the sub-section for Magic R&D where
  • [j] changes the amount of jewels you use for Magic R&D
  • [M] adjusts the amount of money you spend for Magic R&D
• [S] this invests money in your spy department
• [s] this allows you to spend money/metal/jewels from your storage. The way you can spend it is similar to how you spend your revenue, but it is a once-only expense, and is cleared after each update.

A NOTE OF CAUTION:

Watch how much money you are spending carefully, You might be bankrupting your nation without realizing it! You to can run your nation at a deficit... but be warned: if you have no money, you canot draft, construct or redesignate. If someone attacks you and you need armies quickly, you will be in trouble.

You might also want to keep you taxes on the low side... the higher the taxes, the less the people produce. In fact, beyond a certain tax rate, you will not even get much tax revenue out of your people because they will produce so little, and they will want to cheat on taxes.