GM! STOP THE OVER-CONTRACTING! (Little Upsilon)

I'm sick and tired of being unable to offer the correct amounts on contract in my common market!

It's a freakin' crap-shoot when I try to alter offered amounts as to whether the game actually does what I want or adds the "adjusted" level to the previous level!

And there are OTHER times, when I want to offer only a few corps, hit "submit" and EVERY corp offers MORE production, so corps end up offering 200% of what they produce.

This isn't rocket science!

Tom, Jozi, somebody - FIX THE CM PRODUCT OFFERING SO IT WORKS CORRECTLY AND CONSISTENTLY

Yes, but it's a bit more complex.

First of all, you can offer % of all corporations --based on their current production level-- up to 100% for the local/common market.

Supplies, also will contract up to 100% --of current supplies used-- similar to offered %.

If corporation production changes, then the 100% to offer changes, and usually the 100% supplies needed changes as well. If this --decreases--, the amount for production remains, and may over-contract, while for supplies it will auto-decrease to match the useage.

There are a few ways to 'manage' this: have all corporations at 100% hiring when doing offers and acceptances, and plan for your corporation to grow, so, add more supplies than necessary at high quality. Of course, you could manually go back and re-offer, and re-accept, too -- have fun with a big enterprise, though.

Also, you could just do manual contract for important contracts (not

CP, I know all this. It's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the bug/glitch.

Oh, I think I know what's going on.

Your common market settings for percentage amount offered is higher than you are trying to adjust and your corps are automatically offering what you agreed to when you joined that common market. I think you may want to lower that.

I think this might be your problem, just a guess at this point though. 200% is odd, maybe something else is going on here.

Think this might be your gremlin?

You have to cancel ALL contracts then re offer to common market. When you try to adjust corps that don't offer the agreed amount to the cm, you end up adding more contracts for higher amounts to corps that are offering to correct amount.

So if you have %25 on your good corps, and 10% on others, when you try to adjust them by selecting all corps form on the bottom, you add another 25% to existing contract amounts. I think that is what he meant. It drove me crazy for a long time too. Offering too much of your production to the CM will kill the heck out of your profits.

Just cancel all contracts manually, then when you offer 0% for all your corps, re offer the correct amount you want contracted. You can't do it using the form for all corps on the cm page either. The game doesn't allow it and gives a message about the minimum you should offer if you try to reset the corps back to 0% from the cm page. You have to go to corps, and

Solomon: No. My CM minimum is set as THE minimum

Psycho: I'm talking about adjusting on the CM page, where occasionally it will re-offer what you already have inputted on top of new offers. The page should be ready by the game -ALWAYS- as an adjustment, never addition or subtraction. And it should be capped at 100% of base production. So, you know what I'm saying (I think), but canceling should be unnecessary.

To me this sounds like a bug that is long overdue for a fix.