Loans, Supply Contracts, R&D, Financial Statements, etc

I have a few things that I would like to suggest and have questions on.


Loans

I'm a bit confused on the loans feature. I've been trying to conduct LBO's (leveraged buyouts) with my enterprise. I've been trying to take on debt, but the game seems to randomly pay back the debt in a couple game months instead of waiting until the due period. If you look at my Loans taken graph, it starts at 0 on June of 4496. Then it goes as I borrow more, then it drops down, then it becomes a up and down battle as I try to take out more loans while the game automatically pays them back. It's only been about one year since my first loan. My enterprise's leverage is only at around 0.6%, so it doesn't make sense for me to be restricted from a high level of debt. I looked through the automation setting but don't see anything that might be causing loans to be paid back prematurely.

It would be nice if we coul

Loans - If you have enough cash the loan will get paid back early.

Supply to Market - You buy supplies from corps through Trade>Trade with own corps>buy and then sell them on the world market. 100% suppling of corps is not profitable because of the cap on output quality.

Automatic Supply Adjustment - Trading in the common market could use some improvement.

Common Market Contracts - Offers of product are not refilled. If you offer 1,000 units and accept 100 then 900 are left.

Growing Offered in Contracts - I think that page is buggy, again I'll say 100% supplying from common market is not profitable.

More In Depth Cash Flow - I believe the GM is working on that.

Thanks johnV for the insights.

I'll have to work around the loan mechanic then.

I didn't know there was an output quality cap. I'll have to take a look at that and figure out how it works. I mainly do supply contracts to avoid supply shortages since buying automatically on the global market can be spotty at times, and I don't want to go through every corporation setting up individual orders and contracts. Hence why I just do the one click accept contracts in the common market. Though now I know about the Trade with own corps feature, this makes things more interesting. Instead of clicking through every corp, I can kind of do things on more or less one page.

The market is short of many products.
sometimes corporations are not supplied, not on time and reduce production which is causing a lot of financial damage.

I have increased the price I want to pay for products by 3 percent.
I pay a little more and I get the products on time.

you can try to figure out if it makes sense for you.

I am sure some experienced players here will have their opinion on this.