                               Command : BUDGET

NAME
   budget - Look at a national balance sheet & set priorities

Level: Basic

SYNTAX
   [##:##] Command : budget [<sector type|P|S|L|M|N|A|C> <PRIORITY|~>]

budget with no arguments produces:
   [##:##] Command : budget

   Sector Type             Abbr    Production      Priority            Cost
   park                    p       850 happy                           7650
   defense plant           d       115 guns                            3600
   shell industry          i       679 shells                          2097
   technical center        t       66 tech                            27000
   research lab            r       7 medical                            900
   library/school          l       1616 edu                           14544
   refinery                %       388 petrol                           425
   enlistment center       e       930 mil                             2790
   Unit building           L       6 units                              358
   Unit maintenance        A       85 units                           28992
   Ship building           S       2 ships                              480
   Ship maintenance        M       25 ships                            6327
   Plane building          P       9 planes                            2508
   Plane maintenance       N       219 planes                          8874
   Sector building                                                     2398
   Military payroll                7648 mil, 338 res                  38247
   City maintenance                5 cities                             300
   Total expenses....................................................147490
   Income from taxes               320709 civs, 100235 uws           +92513
   Income from bars                7986 bars                         +95832
   Total income.....................................................+188345
   Balance forward                                                    41617
   Estimated delta                                                   +40855
   Estimated new treasury.............................................82472

Budget  with  an argument sets the priority of the given sector type (or L for
unit building, or A for unit maintenance, or P for plane building,  or  S  for
ship  building, or M for ship maintenance, or N for plane maintenance, or C to
clear all)

Priorities are a positive number, or 0, or ~.

By default, budget lists only items which cost something. Non-producing  items
will be listed if they are given a priority.

Update order:

Please  see info "Update-sequence" for more details on the order things happen
in during the update..

Turning sectors off

Sector designations (or ship or plane building) with a  0  priority  will  not
produce, build efficiency, or gain avail.

If  a sector of a type with 0 priority has been re-designated, the sector will
be torn down and rebuilt as usual (and may produce as well, depending  on  the
amount of work available, as normal)

If  a  sector  of  a type with a non-zero priority has been re-designated to a
type with a 0 priority, the sector will be torn down to 0%, and  the  designa-
tion changed, but no further work will be done.

For  other  ways to control sector production, see the "start" and "stop" com-
mands.

Costs for each sector type include costs for building efficiency in sectors of
that type. (This is true even if the sector will change to a different type as
a result of that work. For example, costs for libraries will include all costs
for  work  done in library sectors, even if one of the sectors is being turned
into an agribusiness)

Estimated Delta

The estimated delta may not be correct, due to events during updates.   (star-
vation, plague, sector revolts, etc).

Budget  takes  into  account  avail in headquarters, harbors and airports, and
will only show you how much you'll pay for work that will actually get done in
cases  where  your headquarters/airports/harbors will not have enough avail to
work on all units/planes/ships.

If a cost is in [brackets], then that means that you will not pay  it  because
you  will  not  have enough money.  If a cost is in (parenthesises), then that
means that you will not pay it because you have chosen not to  pay  that  cost
(i.e. you have set the priority of that item to 0).

SEE ALSO
   show, Sector-types, Nation, Update

