Country Funding (TFTD)

Your International Relations Organisation Funding is critical to your success and development, particularly at the start of the game.

Starting Funding

Each game your starting monthly funding will be very close to $6 million, although the balance of which Zones it comes from can change to a significant extent from game to game. It can be worth checking this out as soon as you start. If the traditionally rich Zones are paying less, and poor Zones are paying more, you might want to reconsider your subsequent base locations. Unfortunately there is no way to check Funding prior to placing your starting base.

Country	Monthly Funding ($1000s)
	Low	High	Average	Percentage
USA	627	1211	854	14%
Alaska	245	459	356	6%
Euro-Syndicate	255	409	358	6%
Arabian Bloc	352	572	435	7%
Egyptian Cartel	272	509	361	6%
Africa Corp	180	320	238	4%
Brazilian Union	141	227	184	3%
New Mexico	277	488	388	7%
Asian Coalition	424	739	578	10%
Scandinavia	160	314	215	4%
Neo-Japan	346	609	434	7%
Free China	315	515	415	7%
Australasia	211	310	275	5%
Fed Korea	362	621	508	9%
Eurasia	157	208	228	4%
Icelandic Union	137	228	172	3%

This table was calculated using the results of only 10 games, which may not represent a sufficient sample.

For further details on how these values are generated in UFO Enemy Unknown, see the xcomufo thread discussing it.

Monthly Funding Change

Each month the council review yours will demand a progress report from you, and once they have received it they make a group decision on whether to increase, decrease or hold your funding steady. This is based on the monthly rating which factors in X-COM's overall successes and failures for all combat. USOs merely moving around the map make only very small impacts; one good mission will totally overwhelm this, at least in the early months. Successfully completed alien missions, especially Terror Mission (TFTD)s, have serious consequences, though.

After the council has made its group decision, the majority of Zones will follow the council's lead and adjust their funding. A few Zones may consider their situation exceptional, due to very good or bad localised performance by X-COM (the presence of an alien base in their Zone, a terror mission that succeeded, etc.).

It is possible for Zones to sign a pact with the aliens, in which case they will pull out of the council at the end of the month and cease funding you - completely and forever. The latest evidence from intel operatives suggests that aliens come to exert pacifying mind control over an entire government once the two meet in person to sign the pact. Consequently, there is no known way to regain the Zone's confidence. The only way to avoid this occuring is to shoot down the scouts for the infiltration missions, which will occasionally halt the entire process, or more often merely delay it. It is pretty much confirmed that on Superhuman difficulty, once the aliens decide to Infiltrate a Zone, they WILL succeed... The best that X-COM can do is only delay them by a number of weeks.

Zone 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

• Country Funding (EU)
• 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.