Well your antional budget woudl fo coourse only really coem into play when youa re buyign thigns that would be bought by your nations govenrment as opposed to some kind of private entity within your nation.
When it comes to buying military equipment (the predominate govenrment purchase) the actual amount of funds you have to buy things with would be part of the "Defense" percentage of your national budget.
Looking at your NSdossier (one of several NS calculators) page:
http://nsdossier.texasregion.net/main.a ... ion=rhanta you have a defence budget of about $7.1billion. Now the proportion of this amount that would be available for buying stuff the "Procurement Budget" cna vary hugely but 20-30% would generally be about right.
In regard to setting up a storefront it is highly advised that you do a lot of research into the kind of things you want to sell and particularly in the military feild avoid selling things that exist in Real Life (RL) or things that are just a copy and paste from another website with the name changed. There isn't anythign agaisnt selling Rls tuff its just frowned upon and shows a lack of care and effort. With a storefront Creativity is good as logn as it is tempered by a big dash of realism, hence the research before you do designing thigns you need to understand how simialr thigns were desined and how they work and above all why the choices in thier development were made.
You cna present your storefront ina nnumber of ways soem people like to lsit all the products right there in the forum thread, while others find it easier to use an off site forum or wiki to keep thigns organsied and tidy. A couple of things I would say is try and make your storefront look/sound business like and professional and try to find a niche market, i.e. its not really worth bothering trying to sell rifles or tanks unless you really know them inside out and can draw very pretty pictures.
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:38 am