Massive number of shortages

After having only little difficulty with shortages in my country corps and enterprise corps other than a few items, I now have a shortage of one product or another in almost every corporation between them. I have not changed any settings on any of these.

Anyone have an idea what could be going on?

A major Financial and economic Crises is happening everywhere

Corran

It’s an Economic crisis
It happens not so often and unexpectedly(as it should)
Ur job now is to survive so come get a glass of wine and kick back

Products like industrial equipment, and aluminum for example are all experience shortages due to higher demand pressure. either someone is buying up all the products or it's some sort of glitch. Either way, I'm seeing new corps springing up to meet the demand, so build em if you got room too. Sell some of these supplies to your own state corps if you have sufficient stock

Corran,

TLDR, The Game Master recently made changes that have destabilised the game's economy. We have no choice but to ride it out, while we ask them to fix it.

Recent changes to how High Level Workers are created, has created massive shortages of High Level Workers across the game.

The Game Master claims that the new system will gradually correct the High Level Workers shortages.

However, I have seen no sign of the shortages improving, without constant player intervention to demote educated professionals to High Level Workers.

An automatic system to demote professionals appears to kick in once a nation's Employment Index drops to approximately 75, but it only holds Employment there, it doesn't improve it back above these extremely bad levels.

This results in many Corporations being unable to hire at full capacity. Causing their output to drop, causing good shortages across the economy.

Not only are there massive shortages, but massive over orders of all schools,high schools, colleges, hospitals, I had thousands upon thousands of orders in my empire with no staff for any of them. even though my stats were close or above 100 and auto ordering was off. Talking about an economy killer.

Its shortages but I seen my profits go up for my countries and corporations weird

The whole thing just seems out of whack. I think profits are going up because of the massive shortages.

Maths not my best subject, but I'll give it a shot. Using electric power as an example. There are 5811 corps of this type on FB, max production capacity of each corp equals 6750. 5811 x 6750 = 39,244,250.

There's a shortage of 3,978,069,307. Divide that by the max supply and you get over 101.3. That's how many months it would take to correct if demand ceased. Which isn't possible.

I don't see how this can be fixed without GM intervention? Can anyone enlighten me?

Another example to the equation. Total shortage = 3,978,069,307 divided by max production per corp 6750 = 589,343. That's how many corps need to be built to meet demand or am I being a simpleton??

I really hope your math is off lol. Otherwise the market is done for.

The game master should allow prices to change based on supply and demand, that would make the problem temporary instead of shortage sinking to the unknown. Immediate Orders have much higher cost than inflating prices.

Currently we can make full common/local market contracts to secure some of the supply chain away from the international market until it corrects itself.

Me to Joel

All my ceo corps have shortages lol. I don't have the time or patience to immediate order for each 1. But I'm playing for free so cant grumble to much.

Could this be the consequence of moving all that material to Tiny Atlas? That might explain why the problem is across all worlds.

No as usual it was caused by tweeks from the update.

As best I can tell, the Game Master has, within the last real life day or so, boosted the rate at which the game adds extra supply, to goods in extreme shortage, on the world markets. This short term stop gap, should help reduce the shortages on world markets.

However, I see no sign of any changes to the underlying cause of the problem. The extreme structural shortage of High Level Workers. The game economy can not truly stabilize, until this issue is addressed.

The market price HAS to change according to demand and supply nevertheless. Any update after that wouldn't make a shortage issue.

Still no improvement at all. All my countries and enterprises have collapsed...

The market is improving slowly.

I think GM should make electricity companies produce more. Increase capacity

The market is not improving in GR. Prices should change according to shortage/supply instead of being a flat line, or we're doomed for >10 game years.

Andy where the f are u

The GR market is very strange right now. I'm finding it hard to believe that someone is ordering jeeps.

I am pretty stable but I am spending trillions to keep the economy running.

Etherland, is on the right track. It's the 100's of trillions being shuttled over to Tiny Atlas. This should have been expected. At worst it is a contributing factor.
Rob

It's the workers' transfer, not the money. I wish that 20% of all wealth would be vanished so that demand would go down and give small consumers a higher chance to spend instead of mega demanders