Consistantly losing money (White Giant)

I am a premium member, playing a few months, and my country was doing very well even after teh beginning gifts were over. I play a peaceful game. I always made a profit, and my education and health and everything were all well over 100.

I raised the salaries and everything went bad. Slowly I brought them back, but I am still losing 15-20 billion a month. None of my percentages are as high as they used to be. My employment is over 95%. The only difference I can see is that I have a lot more people now since I bought some with gold. I wanted to make a great country.

I'm at 49.1 million, people are still moving in, but I am losing money like a sieve. I have lots of companies that hire them. They seem happy enough. I've tried everything. It is almost as if they don't want your populations to get so high. How would that contribute to longivity of the game? If you start to become a big country you are penalized? Not much purpose to play if it is a losing proposition. Am I missing something?

Increase profit transfer to 85% and taxes to 0%. I did that and hit the green right away.

What is u r country name? Message me at Intel(WG), and I can help u further

Hey I did what Sunny said now my country is making money. thankd

Grats! Also I was told that the population is now increased to 300 million with 990 corporations in one of the updates done by the gm. Also, change you're buying and selling strategy if they are on default and performing bad and set you're quality at between 186-190-196 which ever suits you. 0% tax and increase proft transfer, but not too high. Set you're Government salarie at 100 or lower depending on the corporation salaries but not too big of a difference which can hurt you're country in terms of finance. Good luck.

You probably got good advise because the problem is reduced to 1B-2B.

When the shortages on the labor market will be solved by tuning the education (nearly done) you will be in positive territory.

what about company types
replace any bad companies run at full employment 95% hiring and no labor shortages
buy upgrades sell to world buy from world at set quality don't take whatever
run at 300 sell price

Make sure you have enough of all worker types; if you are short on, say, high level workers, the corps will lay off all workers necessary to balance the shortage. Be sure that gov't salaries are at 75% to 80% of your worker salary, to keep from suddenly having a reduction in force (RIF) in your education system. Raising social security will raise productivity, but do it in 20% increments or less ( I have 118% max so far), so econ system can absorb the impact. Always hand-order and supply FMUs at Q=120, and Nuclear or electric power at Q=120. Check to make sure your country hasn't auto-ordered hundreds of millions of tons of unnecessary goods, as often happens now with this new supply rule.

Corp Salaries - 280.
Gov Salaries - 260.

Buy 108 over 8
Sell 20% more. Ie, Product Quality = 185, Sell at 205. (Follow product quality and enter 20 in the box, and 10 on the one below).

Whatever cash you have, put into giving loans.

I wanted to give it time to work. Putting taxes to 0 and increasing the profit transfer. I also stopped buying from my corps and reselling them to them for supplies. It was another stream of losing revenue. It got me up to -2b a month, wihch is a lot better. It was temporary though, I'm back to -8 10 -15b a month again. I fix education priorities and little else trying to stop the bleeding. I'm doing something very wrong, but I sure cant figure it out.

Check Your Sale Strategies

Buy 10 below market and add 6/7/8 for every month not delivered

Sell 15 over market and subtract by 5 every month product not sold. (You can adjust these figures up or down with varied results based on market conditions.)

Always follow quality.

Then go and check your order strategies. Make sure you enter something like 20 month low water mark and buy 10 months a pop to avoid getting immediate orders which will make you overpay.

Then make sure your order quality is set to 120 or whatever number makes sense to you for some added benefit and never allow it to purchase goods for your country at any quality. This will have you paying from 2x or more of normal price.

Then go to your country automation page and make sure that each and every single economic protection is unchecked because it will override any of your manual inputs in favor of what the system decides is best for you(which in most cases is not). These protections are auto triggered in some cases even when not checked. The game will intervene if you corps are not selling product and adjust your strategies and salaries. I have also witnessed that the system resets your inputs if you allow your country to fall below -6 to -8Trillion in cash or loans. Try to avoid this.

I know that is a lot to digest but do it, and get used to checking them when you log in to make sure they haven't been reset.

When you are done with that lower your taxes to 0 - 10% and invite ceos to your country or allow them to purchase your corporations. Also, not sure if you are premium member yet, but many of these tweaks aren't available to free accounts.

@Sunny starting to buy at 108 is very poor strategy despite the nonsense you've been fed around here by some. That is unless you enjoy over-paying for supplies. I just thought you would benefit from that.

Your corporate salaries are really low--aalary index appears to be at 100 for all state corps. Raising them would improve your national welfare and tax collections.

Maclean wrote: Always hand-order and supply FMUs at Q=120.

Other than hand-order manually, how do I get to do auto settings unless it's done through the common market, if that's the case, I am still working this out on my own.

How do you do this. I am still in searching for the answer to this, to help lower the corpration costs.

Would you care to help me out?

That would be great, thanks, Anthony.

I'll help you out, after you change your name to Anthony. And not a moment sooner. Alternatively there are many players who will help you out, and an extensive beginners forum filled with the answers to your next 100 questions.

Lol what?! Next 100 questions? That's sounds about right.