v1.4.42Sep 2, 2026·1 min readBeta 2
No plant can be paid to run
A cost-model residual could turn into an unbounded credit on a handful of plants, letting a sector book profit far above what it sold. That credit is now capped at the plant's own bills.
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Corporations (PR #1311)
- •Profit is bounded by revenue again. Under plants, each sector carries a calibrated residual cost line. On a few sectors that line had become a credit larger than every other cost put together, and it scaled with output, so one NPC mining corporation was booking income hundreds of times its revenue and dominated the exchange and the Global Top 50 index. The credit can now cancel a plant's real bills at most, never more.
- •Affected valuations unwind. Corporations that were priced off that phantom income reprice from their real earnings and book value from the next turn.