NationStates Jolt Archive

Ever since I've been on NS, I've assumed that the stats offered by various economic calculators were measured in USD, and not the nation's own currency, to provide a standard of universal comparison. Tonight, I ran into NS Tracker (http://nstracker.retrogade.com/index.php?nation=evil_woody_thoughts), which explicitly denominates a nation's economic statistics in its own currency.

If I accept this, then my GDP suddenly jumped by 96%! :eek: Before I had assumed that it was $100 trillion United States constant 2004 dollars (or universal standard dollars as I RP FT, when I actually get around to RPing), but this new method would have it be $197 trillion USD! This is a significant difference, but...

Do most players assume that economic stats are in USD, or in their own currencies? I've heard a lot of players grumble that there seems to be a cap of about $45K on per-capita incomes; this new method would be a way to circumvent this problem if your currency is strong. On the other hand, I can hear the cries of "OMG STATWANK3R" from the other side of the galaxy...

Then again, maybe this might be a decent way to represent the inevitable productivity boom when my nation started employing FT methods of production?

The NS Economy stats are in USD. That site you mentioned simply applies your exchange rate to it. ;)

Actually, no it doesnt automatically convert. The NSTracker displays the same numbers as the NSEconomy script, but uses the national currency symbol instead of the USD symbol, this is incorrect and should be fixed.

Example:
For Evil Woody Thoughts:
NSTracker: Administration: cr390,215,780,054.10 1%
NSEconomy: Administration: $390,215,780,054.10 1%

The amount was never recalculated for his exchange rate of cr1 = $1.9675

The only time this would display correctly is if a nation had an exchange rate of 1:1 or if the amount was 0 to begin with.

Yes, you're right ITD. Is this something it is possible to fix without consulting Fostonia? I haven't really looked at NSTracker much.

Sorry about that ;)

Anyway, I think we have to the maths ourselves unless we contact the guy who runs that.

Thanks all; this was my first time encountering such a situation. I didn't know what to do with it.