Stolen funds.

[stingray]

Playing as Chin China from 1900, it is now 1914. During this period I have had two identical events occur. The result of which is that in each case 1,000,000 cu’s (currency units) mysteriously disappear from my budget, which is thus reduced by 1,000 each time. (I presume that a figure of 1 in game, equates to a figure of 1,000 in “real money”.

The options presented to the player are the same in both cases, and are something like;

1. Oh well, these things happen.

2. We will have to improve our accounting procedures.


I have no idea whether option 2 has any effect in game, but option 1 may well encourage more of the same.


Could I suggest that in a future upgrade / patch that a third option be offered along the lines of;

“Report the loss of funds to the authorities and ask them to investigate.”

The negative side of this would be the possibility of losing face (prestige) due to reporting the event.
The positive side would be the possibility of the authorities successfully locating the fraudsters, and reclaiming a proportion of the funds taken. Which would then be added back into your funds a month or so later.


Pending the potential implementation of the above suggestion (or something like it). I have decided to apply a “House rule” to address the issue.

On the 2nd and following occurrences of this event I use a very simple spreadsheet to generate a random number between 0 and 1,000. In LibreOffice Calc the following function works just fine =RANDBETWEEN(0,1000)

Having taken possession of the returned funds, I just edit the RTWGamex.bcs file. Locate the line Funds=xxxx and add the returned cash into the available funds.


You won’t get all the money back, but it’s much more satisfying to be able to reclaim some of it instead of effectively shrugging the shoulders!

[ieshima]

Mar 18, 2021 4:57:13 GMT -6 stingray said:

Playing as Chin China from 1900, it is now 1914. During this period I have had two identical events occur. The result of which is that in each case 1,000,000 cu’s (currency units) mysteriously disappear from my budget, which is thus reduced by 1,000 each time. (I presume that a figure of 1 in game, equates to a figure of 1,000 in “real money”.

The options presented to the player are the same in both cases, and are something like;

1. Oh well, these things happen.

2. We will have to improve our accounting procedures.


I have no idea whether option 2 has any effect in game, but option 1 may well encourage more of the same.


Could I suggest that in a future upgrade / patch that a third option be offered along the lines of;

“Report the loss of funds to the authorities and ask them to investigate.”

The negative side of this would be the possibility of losing face (prestige) due to reporting the event.
The positive side would be the possibility of the authorities successfully locating the fraudsters, and reclaiming a proportion of the funds taken. Which would then be added back into your funds a month or so later.


Pending the potential implementation of the above suggestion (or something like it). I have decided to apply a “House rule” to address the issue.

On the 2nd and following occurrences of this event I use a very simple spreadsheet to generate a random number between 0 and 1,000. In LibreOffice Calc the following function works just fine =RANDBETWEEN(0,1000)

Having taken possession of the returned funds, I just edit the RTWGamex.bcs file. Locate the line Funds=xxxx and add the returned cash into the available funds.


You won’t get all the money back, but it’s much more satisfying to be able to reclaim some of it instead of effectively shrugging the shoulders!

My understanding of the issue is that the first choice is effectively a meaningless prompt that has no effect on the game itself.  

The second option effects the corruption of the players nation. 

Corruption is a metric in the nation files of each nation, with China having the highest start value in the game.  A high level of corruption will result in more of these "lose x amount of money" events, as well as the far more dangerous "Crews are not up to reported standards" event at the start of any given war, which results in the crew quality of most if not all of you ships dropping by one or two levels.  As the game progresses and these events appear, choosing the 'right' answer will lower your level of corruption over time.  You can make it to zero in a few years, but it will occasionally pop up.  

I am not certain, but your corruption level might increase if you take certain options, like the "sell arms to minor nations in South America" or "Business man offers monetary support" events.  I haven't checked.