Possible State Corporation Trade Strategies Glitch

Hello,

I joined the community about 6 days ago, I think. During this time I have had a problem with the trade strategies feature of the game, specifically for corporations owned/run by the state.

I have turned off all automation features except the buying and selling, which follows the trade strategies I should be able to set.

Every time I log in, I find that my trade strategies have been reset to a default of 100% market value with 8% increase/month for buying, and 108% market value with 8%[as I recall] decrease/month for selling. I can change the strategy to best price, and the strategy will default for all state-owned corporations when I log-in again. I've lost two corporations because of this, and growth has stagnated in all other state-owned corporations.

The people in the chat room suggested that this is a glitch, so I am posting it here. For the past couple of days, I've presumed that this was

I think until your beginners bonus cash runs out you may be stuck with the auto change.

The game has set automatic support for you account with the best possible setting to ensure your economy is developing.
This will run in the first two weeks.
If you want to change after two weeks, go to the settings page and turn off the automatic support functions.

I had the same problem. I want to buy a membership, but right now I'm waiting to see if my corps start running out of supplies all the time again. It's really annoying to have to manually order them regardless of what the buying strategy is. I've since turned to making my own internal local market and supply most of my needs that way.

420.000 corporations are purchasing automatically.

There is either a sever shortage in some of the raw materials you use or you have changes a setting that made it impossible to purchase.

Wold name, country name and corporation name may help if you want us to take a look.

You looked already, and couldn't see a problem...and in fact there is no problem right now. It seems to have corrected itself.

I have a theory on this...could it be that free players are locked into "best buy" mode and therefore the number offered for the product does not rise each month?

I see there are settings for that, so I assume that the strategies work for paid memberships, but I am not sure if they work for free memberships.

1.
Craigsw, I do not know what you are talking about, but maybe I was not coherent when I typed my last post. I was tired. To start: I have membership, and yes, free members are locked into best price mode, because the other trade strategies are premium only. My question was: Do state corporations have a default trading strategy that is set as a limitation on their growth? No.

2.
I just realized I did not get the default strategy trade settings right. The following is what the setting defaults to when I log-in during the succeeding game month/s after changing or turning off my trade strategies [in a preceding game month].

Selling: 110% -8%/month
Buying: 108% +8%/month

I am trying to be polite, but I do not see how that is optimized for growth in a corporation when:

A) There are extreme shortages in supplies and product, leading to a deficit in spending, which was happening to Yosha Anti

Craigsw, I have the same theory about free players being locked into best price.

jhgrant, for the first 14 days of account, trade strategies will automatically reset, premium or no. It's annoying but should go away after 14 days. If it has been longer than 14 days and they are going back to "default", complain louder. Additionally, you can change your name by going to the portal and then from the top menu:
Settings >> Edit Public Profile

The Nickname is your name in chat and First Name/Last Name make your "president name" and forum name.

For corporations, I have a related post that's for enterprises (so some minor differences in suggestions), but should have some helpful info on picking corps.

Yep, jhgrant, the gamemaster, Andy, did answer you and tell you about the 14 day (2 week) thing several posts ago.

As for your anti-tank missile corp, the only way you will sell them is by using the automatic strategy or even lower, eg -10%, you will never sell at 300% and find the corp will build up massive stocks, not making any money, and then auto sell to your country if the stock is big enough. Honestly you are probably better off closing it and building something else, most military corps are really poor at the moment.

You have the right idea (ish) in salaries meaning more production but there is a trade off point where the increased cost of salary outweighs the extra bit of profit. This is not a very high salary for most simply run normal state corps, maybe 300 tops for most corps. (As you get more experience, there are ways through investment funds and IPOing where higher salaries can benefit).

The 14 day part about being able to turn off beginners protection did not work for me. I tried everysingle day, two or three times a day to turn mine off when I was a new player and it NEVER EVER turned off. So I would recommend double checking to see if this is fixed or you WILL have to wait out your noob bonus. I had to wait. This was one of the issues I emailed the gm's about and they never bothered to reply.

Mine never turned off no matter how many times I tried or switched it off, so simply telling players that it can be turned off after 14 days is doing no good if it is broken. If you can not turn it off then it is STILL broken. Email the gms every single day until they reply to you about this issue because you may simply just be spam to them.

QB

Keyword here? Nuisance.

QB, if your country is not doing well, on the way to going bankrupt even, then the automation will still kick in to prevent this. This happens up to game level 3 I believe. It's designed to help you we are told.

Unfortunately it seems to do more harm in most peoples views, indeed a 'nuisance'.

I got told off for bringing this up before, I didn't even know what I was talking about apparently. I would suggest you start a vote to have the GM review this system, it probably wont help you now you are more experienced but it could help future new players beginnings.

Speaking in my case, my country has always done well. From Day 1, I made allot of money. So the fact that it would not turn off had nothing to do with me doing poorly. It simply did not turn off. Red tried to turn it off and it did not turn off. I emailed the gm about it like we were told to do.

Plus. I do not think that red ever got his turned off when he started either. Although he would have to verify this. In some cases I would imagine it is possible that it will not turn off if you are doing poorly, but that would have to confirmed by the Devs.

Authentication ErrorYou can only post messages if you are logged on as player of simcountry.
You must also have a country in one of the worlds.
New members can join the forum about 48 hours after registration.

1. If you login with email address and password at https://www.simcountry.com, you will post under your registered First- and Lastname.
2. If you login as President or CEO in a simcountry world, the name of the world will be displayed with every Message that you post
   or New Conversation that you start.
   This is preferred if you want to discus 'world' related subjects as Trade, Federations and Common Markets.

Authentication ErrorYou can only post messages if you are logged on as player of simcountry.
You must also have a country in one of the worlds.
New members can join the forum about 48 hours after registration.

1. If you login with email address and password at https://www.simcountry.com, you will post under your registered First- and Lastname.
2. If you login as President or CEO in a simcountry world, the name of the world will be displayed with every Message that you post
   or New Conversation that you start.
   This is preferred if you want to discus 'world' related subjects as Trade, Federations and Common Markets.

A glitch in a glitch thread... Wicked.

Authentication ErrorYou can only post messages if you are logged on as player of simcountry.
You must also have a country in one of the worlds.
New members can join the forum about 48 hours after registration.

1. If you login with email address and password at https://www.simcountry.com, you will post under your registered First- and Lastname.
2. If you login as President or CEO in a simcountry world, the name of the world will be displayed with every Message that you post
   or New Conversation that you start.
   This is preferred if you want to discus 'world' related subjects as Trade, Federations and Common Markets.

so im not allowed to have profitable corporations for 14 days to ever?

The auto settings are designed to make you profitable. You could do better without them but not in the first week or two of playing for sure. Trust me, I have been here years.

Take the 2 weeks to read, read, and ask and understand and check out what the others do.

There are still lots of things to play with that aren't automated.

Authentication ErrorYou can only post messages if you are logged on as player of simcountry.
You must also have a country in one of the worlds.
New members can join the forum about 48 hours after registration.

1. If you login with email address and password at https://www.simcountry.com, you will post under your registered First- and Lastname.
2. If you login as President or CEO in a simcountry world, the name of the world will be displayed with every Message that you post
   or New Conversation that you start.
   This is preferred if you want to discus 'world' related subjects as Trade, Federations and Common Markets.

Ok, I keep running into the same issue, it has been more than 2 weeks for me now, I'm a paying member and I have adjusted it in the settings also. I don't get it anymore....

Did you check your PMs Khome?

noob question, what are pms?

PMS? I'm glad you don't know what that is. But you really are missing out on something here.

Laguna, you might have noticed I chose the word "are" not "is", that might help settle your misunderstanding.

Otherwise, what am I missing out on