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Marcus White
All worlds
21 Dec 2017 15:34Link
I've been playing for many years now and have recently run into an issue with my enterprise.
Said enterprise, MJW International, has lost around $20 trillion in the last two months (real time). My corporations are still making profits, with a $200 billion surplus each game month in the finance rundown. Yet each game month I am losing almost $100 billion from my enterprise cash holdings. One of the main drains on monthly cash seems to be in the 'Cash transfers To and From Corporations' bracket. It appears I'm always paying a substantial amount of money to something, for something, but since the info popup is vague I can never determine where exactly the money is going. (Might be helpful to note here that I am still using the old interface as I prefer it to the newer one.)
Since the majority of my corporations are making profits and only one has a current debt (a public corporation) it makes no sense
Said enterprise, MJW International, has lost around $20 trillion in the last two months (real time). My corporations are still making profits, with a $200 billion surplus each game month in the finance rundown. Yet each game month I am losing almost $100 billion from my enterprise cash holdings. One of the main drains on monthly cash seems to be in the 'Cash transfers To and From Corporations' bracket. It appears I'm always paying a substantial amount of money to something, for something, but since the info popup is vague I can never determine where exactly the money is going. (Might be helpful to note here that I am still using the old interface as I prefer it to the newer one.)
Since the majority of my corporations are making profits and only one has a current debt (a public corporation) it makes no sense
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Marcus White
All worlds
22 Dec 2017 14:28Link
Okay so I figured out a few things that were causing issues and identified where the money is going.
I had quite a few corporations selling products to my other corps on the local market to cover part of their supply needs. It appears that the corporations buying by contract have far exceeded their usual order quantity. I have mine set to a 10 month low water mark and 15 month order quantity, however most of these corps that were buying supplies by contract on the local market have managed to stockpile up to 120 months worth of the contracted products.
I'm not quite sure how that is possible, given that they should only be buying a month worth of supplies by contract each month and using one month of supplies within that same month. Therefore there should be no possibility of those supply quantities rising or falling too much if at all.
The problem with the cashflow numbers rests in the fact that monthly profit only factors i
I had quite a few corporations selling products to my other corps on the local market to cover part of their supply needs. It appears that the corporations buying by contract have far exceeded their usual order quantity. I have mine set to a 10 month low water mark and 15 month order quantity, however most of these corps that were buying supplies by contract on the local market have managed to stockpile up to 120 months worth of the contracted products.
I'm not quite sure how that is possible, given that they should only be buying a month worth of supplies by contract each month and using one month of supplies within that same month. Therefore there should be no possibility of those supply quantities rising or falling too much if at all.
The problem with the cashflow numbers rests in the fact that monthly profit only factors i
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Khome
All worlds
22 Dec 2017 17:41Link
It is a major pain in the ass that has only made me "baby sit" my corps relentlessly. I did just fine with out these "protective" features, and quite frankly, I don't know where all of the funds end up going, even after reclaiming some of them.