Country Funding (EU)

The Funding you get from the council of funding nations is at first a critical part in offsetting your maintenance costs.

Starting Funding

Each game your starting monthly funding will be roughly $6 million, although the balance of which countries and areas it comes from can change to some extent from game to game. It can be worth checking this out when you start, as although commonly the first two areas to build bases in are Europe and North America, for some games you may find India, China, and Japan are all near their maximum levels and might want to take precedence in getting coverage before North America, especially if the US is contributing close to their minimum.

Country	Low Funding*	High Funding*	Average Funding**
USA	600	1200	893
Russia	230	460	338
UK	240	480	353
France	320	640	473
Germany	250	500	368
Italy	160	320	233
Spain	140	280	203
China	245	490	360
Japan	400	800	593
India	150	300	218
Brazil	300	600	443
Australia	280	560	413
Nigeria	180	360	263
S Africa	310	620	458
Egypt	160	320	233
Canada	110	220	158

*These are not minimum or maximums, which can be around 100 higher or lower than these values, but the chance of getting values outside the range given grows exponentially
**Note the average is not the midpoint between the high and low funding, partly because of the distribution, and also because values below the low funding value are more common

For further details on how these values are generated see the xcomufo thread discussing it

Monthly Funding Change

Each month the council will demand a progress report from you, and once they have received it they will convene and make a group decision on whether to increase, decrease or hold steady the funding level. This is based on the monthly rating which factors in both XCOMs overall mission successes and failures both in the air and on ground assaults, they also count against you overall alien activity that was allowed to proceed, although mere aliens flying around the map will make only very small impacts, one good mission will totally overwhelm it, at least in the early months. Successfully completed alien missions, especially Terror Missions, will have much more impact though.

After the council has made its group decision, the majority of countries will follow the councils lead and adjust their funding in line with that. A few countries may consider their situation exceptional, due to either very good or bad localised performance by XCOM, the presence of an alien base on their territory, a terror mission that succeeded, etc.

It is possible for countries that are seeing particularly high alien activity to sign a pact with the aliens, in which case they will pull out of the council at the end of the month a cease funding you complete. Clearly this is something to be avoided, so it is important to ensure you note any high levels of alien activity in an area and react to it. One of the best things to do is to deliberately try to shoot down UFOs inside nearby countries borders, rather than in neutral territory, if possible as both successful interceptions and then any recovery mission will both help placate that countries government.

Country Satisfaction	Funding Change compared to last month
Happy	+5 to 20%
Satisfied	No change
Unhappy	-5 to 20%
Sign Pact	-100%, and will remain at 0 for rest of game

See Also

DIPLOM.DAT - Stores the current and past years funding, the monthly change, and other related information

External Links

Starting Funding, which contains Zombie's great thread on XcomUfo.