Factory subsidies question

[robc04]

Does anyone know why my factory states it can't afford the required goods even when I have the subsidies checkbox checked, I have enough money in my treasury, and my budget is positive?

Thanks

 

[Peuri]

I'm not sure as I'm learning the game myself, but it might be that you've got high tariffs and so the factories can't buy the raw materials needed. Are you sure that they can't get the raw materials or just can't sell their products? I'm not quite sure if subsidizing the industries does even help them buy the raw materials, I'm pretty sure it just helps them stay afloat.

 

[robc04]

The tooltip for the subsize checkbox states it helps the factory pay for the input costs and minimum wage of the workers, so it doesn't seem like the factory shouldn't be able to afford its inputs.

It seems either the message is displayed in error, there is a bug, or there is something else to how this works that I don't understand.

 

[Darkrenown]

Is you budget enough that it would still be positive if more inouts were bought? The autotrade stuff doesn;t want to make your daily balance negative.

 

[Matte979]

I might have the same problem.

Somehow my steal factory even if it being subbed, still say it cant get the iron needed.

My own market is producing enough iron but some how its used somewhere else I cant figure out where.

I thought the internal market bought it first then the world market.

 

[unmerged(93086)]

You can allow your factories and pops to buy things they need from your national stockpile (in the trade window)

 

[robc04]

Is you budget enough that it would still be positive if more inouts were bought? The autotrade stuff doesn;t want to make your daily balance negative.

It is possible that it wasn't positive enough to pay for the inputs. I thought I was +40 or so. The inputs cost 14.3 and 4.7 (currently) for one unit of each. The requirements are .1 units of each. So, you maybe right in your assessment but I don't have a way to go back and verify it anymore.