Well, that's nice. I see a lot of nice arguments. And it means that I am right. Many years ago I asked for additional documentation that will give some insight on internal mechanics. My request was rejected so I have to guess. Fortunately I have played a couple of games in recent years and can make some stupid observations.David wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 2:50 amJapan was mired in recession for a long period of time, despite a string of fiscal and monetary stimulations they put into the economy.2. Economy health. I had a long recession lasting all the game despite low corporate taxes (sometimes as low as 1%) and influx of money from export operations.
In real life, it surprised no one that unemployment can be persistent. Just look at the EU's decade long unemployment problem.3. As a result I see 30 years of 6-7% unemployment and cities that do not grow at all.
Having that said, if your games experience the same economic pattern over and over again, then potentially something might be wrong and I will request the dev to look into it. But if it only happened occasionally, then it is totally normal as by nature economies are unpredictable. (Do you recall any economists who has a track record of making accurate economic forecast?)
Sometimes I cannot issue stocks after 60-days cooldown and on the other hand sometimes I can issue stocks immediately.
Figure 1. On figure 1 you can see a typical Taxes policy screen. There is a lot of stupid sliders and something called Business Activity Index. I don't know exactly what it is but I found out that it is affected by the slider called Corporate Profit Tax Rate. From the game official website I know that "A high corporate profit tax rate brings in greater tax revenue for the city whereas a low corporate profit tax attracts business investment." From my stupid observations I found out that 18% tax usually provides enough "business investment" to provide around 20000 workplaces a year for a city of a million inhabitants. Lower tax rate can provide even more but usually is too expensive to use except for some special cases. Other factors like money supply import/export balance do not matter.
As I said before, even 1% tax rate did not boost employment. It may mean one of two things. Either Business Activity Index does not matter anymore or there is a bug. Since I received a lecture on world economy instead of explanation, I suggest that Business Activity Index still matters. Then it is a bug. Case closed.
I wonder if I will have to explain that a bug is a bug to someone who is not listening ever again?