How to stop my country from automatically buying weapons and ammo? (Golden Rainbow)

I've reduced my military as much as the simulation will let me, and I want to stop my country from automatically buying weapons and ammunition.

How do I go about doing this?

'My Corporations' -> 'automatic systems' in the upper right corner

But that will turn off all automatic ordering of products that my country needs won't it?

It's far too much for me to have to login every single day and place orders for all the products that my country uses. I just want it to stop buying military items from the market when I have no desire to go to war and Im in secured mode so nobody will be attacking me.

Ammunition is used all the time by all armies.
The cost of keeping the army consist partially of the use of ammunition and the replacement of a small number of weapons.

As long as you have an army, some weapons and ammunition will be used and bought to replace lost weapons or used ammunition.

The numbers depend on the number of weapons you have.

Does the number of weapons that are active versus inactive also play a role in replacement numbers?

The simulation won't let me drop any more defensive armies/troops whatever you'd like to call them. The simulation tells me we are already too weak in our defenses. We are a secured nation, there is no need for troops in our nation. I and my country have no desire to go to war, we are like Sweden in WWII, we are a neutral country and I don't want ANY troops or military in my country without my authorization. I am after all the president or King of my country and I should have the final say in this.

We need an option so that the country's auto order system can have military buying turned off when we are playing the economic simulation which is what I am doing. Please provide a real economic simulation for our countries so that we don't have to have troops laying around doing nothing but wasting our ducats/gold when we are a secured country and don't require them.

What you say you want you can have, just by selling all your weapons.

However this assumes you have no wish to climb the game levels and rightly so, as it would be absurdly easy to build a successful economy with no military spending whatsoever.

I've sold every weapon Im allowed to sell one month, and the next time I check it, there are more weapons back in my countrys inventory.

I've caught it on more than one occasion where the country is automatically ordering weapons on my countrys behalf and cancel the orders when I see them come up, however since IM not always online at all times with SC browser open, I don't catch them all so the country eventually restocks itself with weapons.

I have no wish to climb the game levels, they mean nothing to me. I merely enjoy building corporations and trying to amass as much SC$ as possible and hope that one day the developers make the economic side more robust so that we can do things like "buy" corporations from other people in the simulation, as I would enjoy buying losing corporations and moving them to my own country and turning them around. If they don't make the economic side of the sim more robust, then eventually I'll just stop subscribing since it's really overly simple to amass a small fortune and make sure all corps are making a nice profit and growing at a reasonable pace.

"and hope that one day the developers make the economic side more robust so that we can do things like "buy" corporations from other people in the simulation"

So what you really want to do is start an enterprise

I already did, Im now trying to get out of it by having my country buy up my CEO's corporations. I've found that people are too timid on the Enterprise market and don't buy up shares or whole corporations. It really didn't float my boat playing timid CEO, plus in one post someone mentioned that you have to have a country to have a enterprise (though since I can extend my enterprise longer than my country, I would assume that is wrong information) so that people have a place to retaliate against which is nuts if that's true, they should retaliate against the enterprise so it really doesn't do anything for me playing CEO at the moment.

I would rather be able to browse a list of corporations that are for sale, find the losers, and buy them up and try to make them into winners, if that is only going to be offered for the enterprise then I'll likely switch over to that and let my country go after buying up all the corporations it currently owns, but otherwise I'll just let my CEO account expire.

I agree about the auctions - they are rather lame at present, since apart from the Gamemaster's there's no list (that I know of..) showing all corps currently under bidding; if you auctioned off the Mona Lisa in a basement and didn't tell anyone, you wouldn't get much for her.

Where do you find the list of GM corps that are being bid on?

In the Enterprise called Gamemaster Corporations