W3C - Countries "Nearly" Bankrupt

When countries are close to bankruptcy the system tries to save them.

This "Support" function has been there for a long time and we have now made an effort to improve the process.

The repair process as described below is in place for a long time. We have now tested it for a very long period, and have tuned it at some points to make sure it continues all the time until it is completed.

What is "Close to Bankruptcy"?

When cash is lower than a certain threshold (currently -1T) OR the total value of materials in the country is negative, we call the country "Close to Bankruptcy".
(The negative -1T may move to -2T but currently it is -1T).

When cash goes lower than this limit, the system starts making an effort to repair the finances.
Purchasing of products stops, part of the army goes into the reserves, units are dismantled and more weapons go to the reserves.
Mobi

1T close to bankruptcy? That is a pittance Andy and should be much higher. I have went into that amount negative many times by accident. Buying up weapons and such.

To think that my units will start dismantling etc isn't cool.

I will add, having been in war with 8 countries. This neg ammo is a real pain in the neck. Having to make sure every country has positive ammo always or risk loosing my army is hard to manage and so easy to make a mistake. We need atleast a little time to fix it before the army goes?

It was -3T for a long time and we had not even one complaint.
prices are now at least 50% lower than at the time it was set to -3T.

also of course, you can take loans.
loans are limited too but 10T of loans will get you very far.
negative cash does not exist.
you cannot spend when there is no money, you take a loan.

so the limit is not -1T.
It is -1T plus all the loans you can take.

If you's didn't have a complaint why change it? -3T is much more of a buffer than -1T.

So it's -11T before weapons get deactivated? Does the auto loans still kick in when Neg cash?

Andy pls see my post in the Problems page about invincible mobile units.

Stop Ignoring me

You need to ask for the loans to get them.
the loan limit is probably higher than 10T but even at 10T is it huge.

Ok so I think -1T is to low in that case. Deactivating my gear because of a meesly -1T shortage is harsh.

The numbers in the game decline.
prices used to be 10 times higher and much more.

-3T was a small amount.

we decrease the numbers gradually to get into more "realistic" figures.

a precision bomber used to sell for 1.5 Billions.
1000 used to be 1.5T.
everything came down, spending limits too.

Yes I've noticed the falling numbers and I'm unlikely to fall that far into neg numbers. But still, maybe I do by not logging in for a bit. Deactivating or force selling my stuff is extreme.

Selling your stuff does not happen for a very long time.

You should really make sure you can transfer money into the country if needed and prevent the support functions from going into action.

make sure you have +5T in cash and everything will be fine.

countries these days can be very profitable and it is improving all the time.

I was referring to the neg ammo with regards to the forced selling. I thinks it's too harsh.

Suggestion. Why doesn't the game take out auto loans? I'm pretty sure it used to when you went negative? Take out loans up to the max 10T to pay for any neg ammo or supply the neg cash.

After 10T loans then start selling/deactivating.

10T maybe to much. Make it 5T. Just give the player more of a chance to fix the issue.

You do not have negative ammo.
you are warned long before it happens and you just make sure you have ammo.

why do you need weapons when you do not have ammo?

this case is closing as many are buying their ammo now and the negative numbers gradually disappear.

There was only a small group who "used" this "feature" and in all cases we have seen they had lots of ammo in their empire.

There were many complaints against auto loans.
they are available in some cases but experienced players are required to manage their finances.

Also here, many of the countries with negative cash are part of empires with huge amounts of money available.
not fixing these countries is a choice.
not a very good choice.

If you have an empire, you must take care of all the countries or discard them and keep those you want to develop.

How can I take loans if I can't log in

" Thank you for trying to help. I paid $36 USD to play this game, and now any of my entity that's below -1T debt has been blocked from me to play. Yet the W3C keeps on playing these entities to when they reach -14T before turning them off from me? Everything the current procedures do have not help me, including building corps to have zero production or corps which have large surplus on the market, or these state corps just get destroy by rebellions. Lowering salaries to destroy my welfare indexes, raising tax to deter CEOs to build in my countries, and so on. My assets in SC are more than 5.6Q SC$ while total debts less than 275T SC$, so what is the logic that I cannot repay my debts?

Hmm...It would make sense to allow players access to indebted countries as often as they like...how else can they turn the debt around?

I agree with Craig. It does not make sense to cut them off from the entire thing, they should at least have access to the systems they could use to turn the debt around with.

Not true and confusing players.
You can easily login into any country if your assets are as you describe.

If you have the money, you can transfer some to the country and make it cash positive.
make sure it has no material shortages and all GM interventions will stop immediately.

Instead, some are keeping huge amounts of money in some countries and keep other countries far below zero.

Bankruptcy is disastrous as the debt of the country is transferred to the main country.

we are trying to prevent it by invoking these procedures.

The support system, is building profitable corporations, reducing cost and in time, repairs the country economy.
If you think you can do better, you are welcome to do it yourself.

We have now seen a case where a badly dented country that should have been bamkrupted, was improving steadily, improving employment and it would eventually come out of this situation.