Does Fickle Economics debuff always trigger?

[BoogieMan]

Or am I just unlucky? Every game I play, after like 2 or 3 imports polymer I get the Fickle Economics event which doubles the price. Every time.

As a side note, using the world Fickle to describe an event that is in fact a permanent change is in complete contrast to the meaning of the work "Fickle."

Seems a bit of a harsh debuff to apply so frequently at the beginning of the game.

 

[Promethian]

Its not always polymers but I believe it is an assured event. Prioritize getting local production as soon as you can.

 

[shadow25012]

i rarely have it trigger.

 

[Homeshine]

Fickle economics is a metagame trigger. If you are always importing resource X instead of making it locally, over several games, Fickle economics will start to raise the price of that resource to force you to make it yourself, instead of importing it.

For example, after a couple games where I got the McDonald's free food import event I quit making food and imported it all, so the next game I got fickle economics: Food. After a couple games playing SpaceX with half price imports, where I imported a lot of electronics for the new TV stations, I got fickle economics: Electronics. If you go a couple games where you make enough yourself and importing isn't the major source of it, fickle economics will stop triggering for that resource.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

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15% chance of it happening (between Sol 10-50).
It can happen for "Food", "Electronics", "Polymers", "MachineParts"
If playing as oligarch then it's only 50 instead of 100
It's a "Tick", so it's random chance, importing doesn't affect it.


Edit: It's permanent