It's onhand resources that are lost.

Bureaucracy = for gc
Decay = for resources

Every tick it's 0.5% loss of what gc/resource you have on you at tick time.

no once you place it on the market it takes out 10% of your bid and decays 2% of your resources only when you remove it from the market.

Plus your resources still decays on the market.

> Drax of Terigon wrote:

> can you save or stop it if you float your rez or gc on market?

You can save GC by floating it on the markets, depending on how long you want to float the amount on the market.

The Beauro rate is 0.5%, so if you need to factor in the diminished decay rate, you can use B=current gc amount * (1-0.005)^number of ticks.

Example:

The withdrawl amount is 10%, so for 100000gc will be 10000gc
B=100000*(1-0.005)^22
thus B= 89558.6991 after 22 ticks

This same equation will work for any amount, so if you want to save money, you will need to leave it floated on the market for over 22 ticks.

*NOTE* This formula doesn't take into account current income, but since the decay rate of GC is a flat 0.5% it shouldn't make too much difference (will double check that when I have some free time)...