GM TAKE NOTICE FB >HIGH TECH SERVICES<

Hi andy the economy on fb is totally messed up because of ht services. My high tech services corps aren't producing anything because they don't have ht services. The shortage has caused everyone's economy to shut down. I thought there where safe guards in place to stop stuff like this from happening. If its a player they are killing the economy on fb. We need some help from the gm or everyones econ will be destroyed.

I agree. Its gone from 9B postive to 36B negitive.

I have a CEO not making anything becuase its in a shortage. This is really bad the GM needs to intervene or at-least help us understand whats happening.

Plus the same thing is starting to happen on LU

I don't even have a Economy anymore!

FB and LU are looking grim

High tech cant buy Air trans, Computers, Software----Which need high-tech and high-tech isn't producing.

My CEO is at a COMPLETE standstill. I have only 2-3 dozen corps making anything but their product supply is low

The system has an intervention function ant it should intervene automatically is the situation is getting so bad.

I just triggered a check.

I will watch for extreme shortages in the coming 24 hours.

I did see many shortages in countries we run ourselves but I could see that all products showing a shortage, were ordered only once.

when the situation gets desperate, we can see multiple orders for the same product.

let see how it proceeds in the coming hours.

I am sure that some of it is player made but it will surprise me if they succeed in creating a very large shortage.

Thanks for investigating Andy

I was looking around

Services, High tech services, Oil, some others are massively in the negitive.

The problem I'm noticing is that with services 61B in the negative my country cant buy them which is causing a massive shortage. Do this across the board it will cause greater problems.

My theory if i may is this problem comes AFTER you've allowed us to set our own buying strategies for corporations. Maybe by doing so we can created a MASSIVE demand on the market it cant keep up
I mean before we where only buying a couple months, with some plasyers like myself wanting a year or more supply it has really messed up the markets...

Just a thought, Figured id try to help

Given that the issues are with many of the worlds biggest markets on multiple worlds, Super's theory seems to be the only explanation. I see 3 ways to prevent this from reoccurring.

A (far) smaller cap on supply levels to prevent massive hoarding.
Implementing a cost to store goods to deter massive hoarding. (realistic too)
People using contracts to ensure market volatility only risks revenue, not corp supplies.

Yes, Super is probably right. I too set my supplies to over a year. It seems that this is the root of the problem.

Btw, while you're at it Andy, can you fix the space game also? There are like three threads on this already... Please? PRETTY PLEASE???

But if that really is the problem it will fix itself in time. There will come a point where you have a years worth of supplies and that you only need to maintain it.

The biggest question is if the markets can survive till we hit that point. Personally i don't mind this situation that much. It's just something that shakes things up a bit.

And yes, i'm also bleeding. I've got 14 countries and a decent size ceo so i fully understand the hurting but nobody ever died because of a little blood.

Well...switched my 1100 private Corps on KB to 30 month supplystorage...may Peak some demands ^^

hate me for saying it,

but players have complained/accused the GM for years of adding products to the markets, and asking for less intervention, now look above.

when the GM did their last round of production adjustments, several products when badly green. when the price went down half way from base and bottom, i started buying, when it hit red, near bottom, i stopped buying, but the demand kept climbing. with low prices, it isn't very difficult to buy that much stuff, and the new corp feature couldn't help this. although, i didn't really look at how many corps closed

AT, HT, and services, these three are the ones that mostly bought, i just dropped enough to nearly even out AT and HT, not enough for service, i dropped 20B, i wanna keep a bit for myself. couldn't bring myself to giving up the EP stash i've got. i hope that some others have stock piles of the other stuff they can sell to help fix things.

the corp situation is pretty bad

Same happening in WG, significant crash in my economy, had to draw out the stockpiles.

my economy is a mess, i don't know why

@ Laskaris

A lot has changed over the pas month. Corps need more high tech people then before. Yes it's only a few extra but when you have 50+ corps those numbers add up.

Add to that that there seems to be a shortage of certain goods and you get a recipe for a serious bump.

Then again, I still don't see the problem. It's a bump. Deal with it, adapt, lose a few corps, some cash and change your strategy. For me things like this keep it interresting.

Quite a few of the crucial components of LU's economy went into the trillions of deficit today. Thankfully I have the cash reserve to afford supplies for now. just hope the situation gets resolved soon.

why the High Tech Services needs High Tech services as components?

Haha, I never thought of using HT services (or even the notion of a corporation that uses it's own product as a supply). So much more effective. If a player is causing this, SOMEONE GIVE THAT PLAYER A MEDAL. THEY DESERVE IT.

I agree brostoevski ;)

It's pretty bad right now but it's hardly the end of the game. People just need to adapt.

I'v always seen that HTS is not a needed supply for HTS corps. At least on KB. It's been like that for a while.

For all those in need: We put up about 2B HTS in Direct Trading.

Also added 1B Services. Will increase supply later

That is a nice thing to do BQ.