Help with Local Market Trading (Little Upsilon)

Hey I'm pretty new I just started last week.

I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what i'm doing wrong with local market trading? I have certain state corporations which produce good that other state corporations of mine need for their production process, however when I go to the common market page and click "Accept Only Local Market Contract Offers" the only contract that was set up was between my oil company selling to my chemical company, while no contract was set up between my aluminum company selling to my furniture company. Does anyone know what the problem is?

One thing it may be: Does a corporation need the item in its actual reserves before local market contracts can be set up automatically using this method? Because I specifically indicated for the aluminum company to reserve the monthly amount of aluminum that my furniture company uses, so do I need to wait for the physical product to actually be in the corporation's reserves before I can set up the contract on my local market?

Thanks!

Basically, you have a good idea, but there is a strategy you need to add to make it work, and the reason is 'quality'. Without going into detail, it would actually be better to contract Wood and forget Aluminum (see website and blog information below).

But, the short answer is: first you need to 'offer' the products from all corporations of interest, then after, you can go 'accept'. And, no, it wouldn't matter if you had 'reserved' some amount, as that's what contracts do anyways; but, yes, of course it's always possible that some 'glitch' occurs..so, the best thing is to go back and start over, cancel any reserved amounts, re-offer all products to the local market, then go re-accept all those supplies.

For more information on how to use common (and local) markets to make 'very good profits', and for general advice on setting up a new country, check Scarlet's affiliate site: http://www.freewebs.com/churchofsimcountry/index.htm, and browse or search the Simcountry forum for the "Wildeyes' Leaving Guide to Everything", as well.

For common (and local) market information, check the link going to the blog for that also.

Hey, thanks a bunch for the help! I'm pretty sure the only thing I was doing wrong was failing to 'offer' the products first, so I'll go try that now, but I'll let you know if that ends up not working.
Thanks again!

I was just able to play with this feature today as I had been too busy with college finals lately. Everything you explained to me was correct, however now the problem I'm having is getting a red "!" sign next to some corporations notifying me that some of my corporations' local contracts exceeded their production, but that simply isn't the case for any of my corporations... is this a glitch as you suggested or do you think it's something I didn't do correctly?

Those red (!) signs always, or least usually, appear when first starting contracts. Basically, it takes two world months to get 'fully operationa;', because the first world month the corporation 'retains product for contracts', then the next world month it actually sends it. It usually doesn't matter, except if you have a corporation about to close due to poor sales, etc, then it's better to not auto-contract, as it would delay an extra world month. You could also go to the corporation and select manual reserve product, and if there is some available then it would by-pass that delay.

So, the bottom line is, those red (!) probably are just a one-time thing and will go away soon.