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To help me better understand what is going on inside a system's economy, I have made an overview of the current economic processes inside the Smi-Halek System. Then, I proceeded to have them plotted into a graph to allow visual inspection.

While not necessarily any further with having a better tax tool, it did produce this nice image:



The shapes of the nodes have the following meaning:

• Circle: this is a labour node representing all labour in the system for this specific thing.
• Octagon: this is a process node, taking a number of inputs (the incoming arrows) and producing output (the leaving arrows.
• Squares: this is a 'buffer', which represents the available amount of goods. While not necessary for the flow model of the economy, the buffers help to make the image more readable by providing a single 'collection point' for the thing they buffer. (clearly seen with the rare elements mining and trade)
• "Inverted House": these represent imports and exports of things. Imports are incoming trades. Exports are both outgoing trades and reserve directives.

Note: specialised goods are handled separately, but I found no good way of showing which specialized good is which in the diagram. For the economy it doesn't even matter, as long as there is a process node that combines them. Further, the process receiving all twelve goods is the tax-sets being converted to money.

I can generate images for other systems as well, if people are interested!

[Gerben]

Yay, fun stuff ;)

I'd be happy to receive one for the Guaire System

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Guaire

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