NationStates Jolt Archive

Part I:

To start, I use nstracker.retrogade.com to keep track of the economic progress of my country. If the program is accurate, then there are several problems with it. If the program is inaccurate, then I would like Nationstates to implement a similar, though more accurate program into its own system.

Today, I will discuss the indicators that the program uses, and which ones I would like to see.

The program keeps track of:

-How much money is spent on each sector of the government
-What proportion of funding each government sector recieves
-The total GDP of the nation
-The exchange rate of the nation
-The GDP per capita of the nation
-The unemployment rate
-The consumption
-The government budget
-Government expenditures
-Government waste and
-Imports

In this case, GDP is calculated as Consumption + Government expenditures.

A few factors that I would like to see:

-Net exports (to replace imports)
-An improved measure of GDP to account for net exports
-Inflation (this can sort of be marked already in terms of the exchange rate)
-Spread of wages (to talk about the spread of wealth - possibly include median income?)
-Implications of the Solow model and the long term benefits of technological advances and education
-Possibly including more of a monetary market (savings rates, interest rates, investment spending, etc.)

The game focuses heavily on fiscal policies, which is fine, and actually my main area of study as an economics major. In the coming days, I will go through a number of these items, and explain my grievances with some of the economic issues that I feel that this game faces.

Thing is that 98% of the stats NSTracker gives you are completely made up out of its inventor's head. All NationStates gives the calculators is the government budget and the tax rate, and leaves the calcs to figure it out from there. You could ask, but I doubt anyone would be able to figure all this stuff out from just the little bit of information NS gives.

As for changing the game... no. Mods & admins have already stated that it's not going to happen until at least NationStates 2, if that even exists beyond Max and company's minds now.

/not a mod

If the program is accurate, then there are several problems with it. If the program is inaccurate, then I would like Nationstates to implement a similar, though more accurate program into its own system.You'll have to take it up with NSTracker's writers, coders, whatevers. Chances are, most of their code is taken either from 3rdGeek or Sunset anyway (which were heavily cribbed from Pipian).

NationStates does not support nor offer support for any of these programs. We have no intention to ever impliment anything like this in NationStates. To be perfectly blunt, NationStates just isn't that sort of game. It's a political satire, not a sim.