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Budget (Previously called TAXES. Budget is a more appropriate name)


Budget-E990BE01

Dword - File Size (number of bits that follow). 10 Bytes Unknown Qword - Total Funds Qword - Total Funds Qword - Total Loans Borrowed Amount QWord - Monthly Expense 220 Bytes - Unknown. There's some sort of pattern here in these 220 bytes.

Dword - R$ Current Tax Rate Dword - R$ Max Tax Rate (Seems the Max Tax Rate available in-game is Hard Coded) 112 bytes Unknown, Mostly Zero's Qword - R$ Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - R$$ Current Tax Rate Dword - R$$ Max Tax Rate 112 bytes Unknown Qword - R$$ Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - R$$$ Current Tax Rate Dword - R$$$ Max Tax Rate 112 Bytes - Unknown Qword -R$$$ Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - CS-$ Current Tax Rate Dword - CS-$ Max Tax Rate 112 Bytes - unknown QWord - CS-$ Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - CS-$$ Current Tax Rate Dword - CS-$$ Max Tax Rate 112 Bytes - Unknown Qword - CS-$$ Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - CS-$$$ Current Tax Rate Dword - CS-$$$ Max Tax Rate 112 bytes - Unknown Qword - CS-$$$ Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - CO-$$ Current Tax Rate Dword - CO-$$ Max Tax Rate 112 bytes - Unknown Qword - CO-$$ Tax Income Monthly Estiamate Dword - CO-$$$ Current Tax Rate Dword - CO-$$$ Max Current Tax Rate 112 byte - Unknown Qword - CO-$$$ Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - IAG Current Tax Rate Dword - IAG Max Tax Rate 112 bytes Unknown Qword - IAG Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - ID Current Tax Rate Dword - ID Max Tax Rate 112 Bytes - Unknown Qword - ID Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - IM Current Tax Rate Dword - IM Max Tax Rate 112 Bytes - Unknown Qword - IM Tax Income Monthly Estimate Dword - IHT Tax Current Rate Dword - IHT Max Tax Rate 112 Bytes - Unknown Qword - IHT Tax Income Monthly Estimate

Variable Number of Bytes - Unknown, also changes.

Dword - Total Number of Loans Issued. This is probably an Identifier for this section, identifying the lenght of this particular Section in terms of the number of Loans on issue. [Start break] 8 Bytes - Unknown. QWord - Loan Amount borrowed [Individual Loan]. Qword1 -Total Loan Repayments [total repayments over course of loan]. Qword - Unknown QWord - Unknown.. QWord - Monthly Loan Repayment Amount [Individual Loan] Qword - Loan Amount Owed [Individual Loan] [End Break]-Repeat above section for each loan.

8 Bytes - Unknown QWord - Monthly Income [Total]- Qword - Unknown [maybe also monthly income?]. Qword - Monthly Expenses [Total]- Qword - Unknown [maybe also monthly expense?].

Dword - [Possibly] number of Sections that follow. [Start Break] Dword - Unknown. Same value as following Dword. Dword - Unknown. Same value as previous Dword Dword - Lenght of section Name. String - Section Name. I.E. Different areas of the Budget. Qword - Monthly Expense Estimate of Section. Qword - Monthly Income Estimate of Section. Dword - Equals the number of Dwords that follow. XxDwords See Previous Dword just above to get the number of Dwords for here- Unknown. [End Break] Repeat above section for each different Budget Deparment.

End of E990BE01 file.

Budget - AA313C9F

Dword - File Size of Section (number of bits). 10 Bytes - Unknown. Dword - Lenght of Section Name. If this is zero, seems as though there is no section name, or valid section for that matter, but rather the section is just a "Fill" section??. String - Section name. I.E. Different Areas of the Budget & Individual Items. DWord - Number of "Section Item" Items [where applicable, as not all budget items give details as to how many there are of a particular item]. Dword - Unknown. QWord - Section Monthly Cost [Expense]- For Items if they were at Standard 100% Efficency. QWord - Section Monthly Estimate [Expense]-Current Month-Actual Amount charged against the Budget. Qword - Section Monthly Estimate [Revenue]-Current Month Actual Amount credited to Budget. Variable X bytes - Unknown, number of remaining bytes depends on each sections' Dword File size above. And repeat as necessary as per above for each section. End of file.

Budget - E990BFFC

Dword - File Size of Section (number of bits). 15 Bytes -Unknown. Dword - Lenght of Section Name. String - Section Name. I.E. Different areas/Categories within the Budget. 21 Bytes - Unknown Dword - Equals number of Qwords that follow. [Number of [Main] Line Items belonging to Section [I.e. Different items within Budget Department areas]. May or may not include Main budget Department Heading itself]. X Bytes - See Previous DWORD just above to get the number of Qwords here. Dword - Equals number of Dwords that follow. [Number of [Sub-section] line items inside current section I.E. the various Line items that exist within the different "Master Budget" Departments. For example; where it lists each and every individual Coal/Oil/Gas Power Plants in the "Master Power budget"]. XxDword - See Previous DWORD just above to get the number of Dwords here. Dword - Unknown Dword - Unknown And repeat as necessary as per above for each section [for each budget item]. End of file.