Capitalists & Reserves

[OHgamer]

First dibs? What kind of 'free trade' market is this, anyway??

local market would most likely be easier to distribute and retail goods than exporting overseas, so makes sense that local production should go to local population first.

 

[OHgamer]

Sorry mate, but it must be only me. When I sell everything ASAP, my POPs running at average ~30% goods across the spectrum. When I stock 1000 and sell everything above I have 100% constantly (of course with the exception of goods which I cant manufacture early in the game). Perhaps with huge stocks coming huge price reduction so POPs buying stuff for much less? I not arguing that what you saying is wrong. Most probably it isnt . But stocking works for me even if it isnt right way to do that (and on the other hand I hate to run out of stuff when I building 40 units at once ).

That 100% you see is because no one else is producing the goods, or your overall ranking is too low to allow your POPs to purchase the goods from overseas producers. So, of the goods that are available to the POPs given those circumstances, they are purchasing 100% of their needs that can be filled (which does not mean that they are filling 100% of all their needs)

Once you start putting your production on the marketplace, and your local POPs finally get access to goods (because your nationals get first chance to buy national production) then the reality of how their income vs tax comes through, and they can only buy 30% of their needs as a result. You'd get the same result if your nation was ranked high enough and there was enough produciton on the world market for your POPs to fill their needs via imports alone.

So don't be lulled into a false sense of stability - you are seeing 100% simply because there are no goods at all to fill nor access to those goods to be had. Once access is available to your pops, the reality is they are only able to fill 30% of their needs based on their current income generation and your level of taxation.