IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FED2
ODDMENTS
MONEY AND TAXES
The unit of currency in Fed DataSpace is the Imperial Groat, or IG. A thousand groats is a kilogroat. One million groats or 1,000,000 ig equals a megagroat or meg. Add some more zeroes and you have a gigagroat, 1,000,000,000 ig.
You can give groats to another player using the command 'GIVE playername amount', for example 'give dork 137'. However, there is a limit which stops you from passing large quantities of cash to another player - a player can only receive 1,000 ig each day. If the amount you try to hand over would take the receiver over the limit, then the amount will be reduced accordingly.
Having said that, the 1,000 ig limit is subject to your generosity in buying rounds - the amount of money you spend on drinks for your friends is added to the limit for the day.
The Galactic Administration keeps a tight rein on the Galactic money supply, and acts to curb any inflationary pressures. As part of this rather restrictive monetary regime, it has instructed the Interstellar Revenue Service to investigate those who seem to have way too much money for their rank, on the grounds that anyone with excess groatage must be a dodgy character and up to no good.
The IRS investigators will swoop and confiscate any earnings that are deemed to be suspicious.
The threshold at which the IRS will take action is as follows:
Commander - 250,000 ig
Captain - 400,000 ig
Adventurer - 600,000 ig
Merchant - 900,000 ig
Trader - 2,100,000 ig
Industrialist - 2,100,000 ig
Manufacturer - 2,100,000 ig
Financier - 2,500,000 ig
Each day at reset, they will remove 20% of your excess groats.
The taxman doesn't tax the personal money of planet owners; however, planetary treasuries are subject to a strict 1 gigagroat limit, and at the reset any excess groats are confiscated.
The same limit is applied to companies - at the reset, any groats in excess of 1 gig in the company balance are removed.
