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More info on new GDP stuff
Just a bit more info on the new GDP changes.
The game behind the scenes now calculates your quarterly GDP growth, and your "colonial news agency" reports this data to you if you have the GBT price news ticker enabled in-game.
As you can see, your colony now has some economic "analysts" that try to predict what the next quarter GDP print will come in at, based on the trends of the last few quarters.
The game stats (both in-game and the website) will show your current quarterly GDP print, as well as the total annual GDP for the most recent full in-game year.
Something I am about to implement, which I have not finished yet, is inflation adjustments. When working on GDP, I started noticing that the rates fluctuate pretty wildly, since they are based on market prices from the galactic board of trade. To smooth this out a bit, the game is going to start recording a rolling history of the average GBT price for a range of resources, and using the price difference to smooth out the GDP growth stats. This is sort of like they do in real life, when they adjust GDP numbers for inflation.
So for example, if your GDP rose by 10% in the quarter, but the GBT prices its based on rose by 12%, then in reality your GDP actually shrunk by 2%. Opposite is true if GBT prices are falling. Anyway, it's not 100% perfect, but real life GDP calculations aren't either. But I think factoring out the price inflation factor will give the best and most useful number possible, and also prevent people from trying to somehow goose up their growth rates by posting a bunch of GBT trades. Although considering everybody's GDP is based on the same prices, that wouldn't help them much relative to other colonies anyway.
The game behind the scenes now calculates your quarterly GDP growth, and your "colonial news agency" reports this data to you if you have the GBT price news ticker enabled in-game.
The game stats (both in-game and the website) will show your current quarterly GDP print, as well as the total annual GDP for the most recent full in-game year.
Something I am about to implement, which I have not finished yet, is inflation adjustments. When working on GDP, I started noticing that the rates fluctuate pretty wildly, since they are based on market prices from the galactic board of trade. To smooth this out a bit, the game is going to start recording a rolling history of the average GBT price for a range of resources, and using the price difference to smooth out the GDP growth stats. This is sort of like they do in real life, when they adjust GDP numbers for inflation.
So for example, if your GDP rose by 10% in the quarter, but the GBT prices its based on rose by 12%, then in reality your GDP actually shrunk by 2%. Opposite is true if GBT prices are falling. Anyway, it's not 100% perfect, but real life GDP calculations aren't either. But I think factoring out the price inflation factor will give the best and most useful number possible, and also prevent people from trying to somehow goose up their growth rates by posting a bunch of GBT trades. Although considering everybody's GDP is based on the same prices, that wouldn't help them much relative to other colonies anyway.
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