Forced Industrial Subsidies?

[that one noob]

I'm playing as Belgium, in 1858. I have all industry tech's researched, NF on clerks in my 2 original states. maximum infrastructure I can have in the regions (level 3 railroad) and my ruling party is conservative. I have around ~ 300 capitalists in my nation.

Everytime I switch to Liberal however, my industry dies. And when I say it dies, I mean it dies. All my workers get unemployed, factories shut down, everything stops selling and making less profit. It's just terrible. As a result, I can never have a Laissez Faire Policy, which I'd love to have become I'm forced to keep my industrial subsidies on or else workers leave and factories shut down.

Anybody experience this before, or know what's going on? I'd really love to switch back to Liberal, but can't until economy stabilizes. How can I fix this? Any tech's that will help?

 

[Savolainen5]

It seems like your factories aren't making a profit, so they can't survive without subsidies. I guess you gotta find a way to make them profitable or build ones which typically are (liquor and glass are two common ones).

 

[sgvdberfesgdasd]

Here
-Check your factories production output,Is it produce at full capability ?
if not
- Check your factories maintenance
- Check your factories input amount, is it lacking anything ?
- If the input good have higher amount than produce in your country, Check your tariff

- Check your factories sell,Is it sell all of the product ?
if not
- Check if your pop(especially poor strata) can afford it
- Check the overall demand of the good on global market, Are supply higher than demand ?

- Check the prices trend, sometimes some good price can collapse making it unprofitable for a while
During the collapse some factories can lost all of it saving making them unable to by enough input leading to under produce lead to loss and the loop start )

If everything is seem fine chances are your tech isn't ready for certain type of factories thus making them under produce.

 

[DuroSVK]

Laize Faire is broken...
Just dont go with it

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Risking of repeating an earlier statement...

Hmm..i bet you are no great power or not among the first few as Belgium, but have many, many factories as a minor power
and relatively early in game ?

As was suggested more or less before, i bet its factories not getting their needs (maintenance here, though could also be ressouces for the product),
thus can't produce and sell nor pay their workers and thus are shutting down when not subsidized under liberal governments.
These hard times get survived with subsidies when under other poltical parties.

Liberal works best, assuming you are industrialising, if you are among the top four and as Belgium you are probably not.
Smaller powers have a restricted market access and thus tend to suffer more when there is a shortage.

Could also be you are building so much that you are causing a shortage in some material yourself and thus your factories can't get any
cement or iron or coal or whatnot anymore and its you who is ruining your factories that way.
Probably not in your case, but it's a scenario that still happens to me once in a while admittedly...