Okay since this has gone a bit too silent for my taste, and to undermine my earlier point:
Problem first of all is: I cannot copy and paste a nation in beta, do it yourself and you will notice that the website adress does not allow specific links of nations for NS Beta.
So here is the link for NS Beta, and here you can copy and paste to check any of the nations I list and sample:
https://www.nationstates.net/page=betaNation: St Stephen n Critters
Loss of cheese exports despite a top 10 environmental ranking. Check for yourselves.
Nation: Kyupaa
Another top 10 environment ranker, despite his utopian environment he loses output in trout fishing and cheese exports.
Nation: Wilkshire
Another top 10 environment nation(10th place), losses in cheese exports again.
Nation: Pax Aurea
Another top ranker in environment, 20th place currently, with considerably higher trout fishing and cheese export sectors. Look at the sheer size of his environment, and look at his losses! WTF? Sorry that´s what I ask myself when I see that.
Counter examples: This time we will choose nations highest in agriculture, which still rank in the top 1% for enviroment, and see the losses and the lack of proper balance I spoke of before(no nation should lose raw output through this change! The aim was to merely lower the tie of agricultural industries to the environment in "ln raw vs. netto losses vs. gains", once again only lowering that tie only... not punishing nations with high environment for their rightfully gained ouput and having them lose raw economic output via this change, yet that is what it does, so let´s examine more data to make sure):
Nation: Taurian Concordat
10th place in agriculture, 630th in environment, and now see the losses the beta would give that nation...
Nation: Pullenstein
8th place for agriculture and 15th for trout fishing, 928th place for environment. See the losses once more. Here another interesting note from my side: From all 3 industrial areas, trout fishing is caped the quickest in terms of "how much environment you need to max out your 100% brutto industrial output" of that industry, so the losses are smaller too, since this is trout fishing, aka the sector least affected by that corrupted math.
In my conclusion: It uses the same and corrupted mathematical code that is already in use, but since trout fishing is less affected by that corrupted math the netto losses are a lot lower too. The flaw itself in the coding however remains, painfuly obviously so too by now.
Nation: Colonino
4th for agriculture and 198th for best environment. Compare the losses once more...
Nation: Whims
3rd for agriculture, also as i´ve seen has a lot of trout fishing and cheese exports too, 231st for environment... Big losses again...
Sorry but the conclusion is: This really can´t be it! Any nation, also like mine while maybe less impressive in these stats, knows what a hard ordeal it is to balance environment and also the industries of agriculture, cheese exports and trout fishing. We all put a lot of effort into these industries and they are part of our overall income to more or less degree. And especially those nations who fought hard to balance environment with these industries are punished the most, mine included.
I at least will not be taking that, and I bet a lot of other nations who fought hard to balance environment and agriculture also agree. Especially when the mathematical coding seems obviously corrupted... I did prepare to reply earlier however as said, the NS beta page doesn´t create links and hence is not saved, at least not for long : / Which cost me quite a workload of preparation. Am quite busy right now too so i´m quitting here. Wanted to get that out though as it is important.
Latest by now you should see that there are obvious flaws with how this beta is mathematicaly calculated... It is an absolute disgrace that nations who fought to balance environment and agriculture get punished for no reason. While overall I am in support for this change, it needs an serious overhaul. Since my nation is also strongly affected by this proposed change i´ll gladly keep monotoring it in my free time until the flaws are fixed. Until then I sadly coontinue to disapprove of this change... Though as said I approve the idea itself.
P.S. As said please extend that to tourism too once the flaws are fixed, and as mentioned give an income based tourism rating please... I am really tired of not being able to see how much EXACTLY of my income stems from tourism... I can guess and even math it up if I really want too... but even then since some other factors like income from administration, spirituality, social policy etc. miss you never really get a 100% acurate result, plus its really tedious to type that all in and math it up without making any small mistakes yourself. NS really needs a tourism income based rating.