Product dump

Good job to whomever dumped about every product imaginable on KB. Just single handedly ran everyone's corps into deficits. Unless this is another glitch .

Khome,

As an economically minded person, this interests me greatly.

If you look at the chart for supply, and it shows a sudden spike in a single month, then it is probably a player dumping reserves.

If the chart shows a gradual increase, then production is larger than consumption for those products, leading to a gradual oversupply.

I'd look into it myself, but I don't have a presence on KB.

If the supply increase was gradual. Then from my analysis, it is caused by resent upgrades the the AI that controls C3 nations.
In the past, these Nations were a large net drain on global markets. Buying what they needed, but often failing to produce much in return.
The recent upgrade has enabled them balance their economies, so that they are actually producing enough to make up for their purchases.

Long term, this will be very good for Simcountry. The global markets will become real dynamic markets, rather than sitting in permanent severe shortages.

Signed President of DanNation on LU

It was a quick dump, you would see a quick spike within a game month.

Khnome,

Ok, if there was a quick spike in a single month. Then yes, the Market was just hit by a player dumping his reserves. Have fun riding the rollercoaster while the planet works through the supplies. lol

Signed President of DanNation on LU

More like a vertical cliff!
An interesting thing as well, must have taken quite some time to gather all those products. You don't sit on 7.000b products most of the time...

Money would have been made, by selling all those products to this player, to stockpile. Now money is being lost, as those products are flooded onto markets.
What goes up, must come down. Booms are followed by busts. Surpluses by shortages, then surpluses again. The cycle of life, and the cycle of economics, pulse to the same rhythm.

Signed President of DanNation on LU

Yeah, I've seen this happen several times over the years . It's been an irritant because it gives a temporary windfall to them and hardship for everyone else . Just pointing out, it's a selfish move and it's irritating.

It probably isn't profitable for a player to dump a stockpile and crash its price. A better explanation for dumping is that the automation is resetting one or more inactive entities. When resets happen, a bunch of products get dumped.

That makes more sense, there isn't much to be gained. How often do these resets happen

As the oldest World in Simcountry. KB probably has some of the biggest stockpiles, in it's veteran nations. Additionally, being the smallest world, it's markets aren't able to absorb the sudden influx.

But to be honest, if events like that didn't happen, it could all get too easy. This is a recession coming to bite, Simcountry style. ;)

Signed President of DanNation on LU

Yup, time to buy products at a discount, save for later.

Lol

Because many worlds are seeing these issues. My educated guess is the auto features are dumping "Aries" assets in order to generate money for his empire. Few players have the level of assets needed for these kinds of dumps.

Might be, might not be him, who knows but that's my educated guess on the matter.

It is not aries.

A country reset occurred.
It was not even very large but had huge amounts of accumulated products.

And now I can't build any corporations. Is this the result of the reset? I still have production plants but they aren't building any

Are the corps requiring products in short supply?

No, but it does have a shortage of the product that is producing

T. Wo,

Please provide the Name of your Country, And the World that it is on. This enables people to look at your country to see what is causing the problem.

Do you have a shortage of ANY type of Worker/Professional? If you don't have a large enough workforce, with at least some spare people in every category. Then game will prevent you from building Corps, because you would be unable to staff them.

I hope this helps you.

Signed President of DanNation on LU