How to keep Cash Reserves high after Social Reforms and Industralization

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I played a few games of VICKY and around years 1880's I am rich enough to afford social reforms, I pay for whatever I can get and generally I do not bakrupt myself or get a deficit but I get social reforms until my income is only a small fraction of the 40,000 dollars a month I was making before reforms.

So after I get the reforms my money income grinds to around 4000 dollars a month. Soon after all my people lose their once plentiful money reserves.

Same thing with industrailization! I get many factories, many factories. It imporves my score alot but in the end my people don't seem to get any benefit from working these factories... and I miss the days when most of my people farmed and mined.

So why does cash reserves lower after I industrialize and socially reform. Why can I not keep them high during my progress... my pre-1880's people were richer

I played as America and England and this happened both times, rich cash reserves lost for exchange to reform and industry

 

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I usually swim around in cash by 1880, no matter what nation or economic system I play.

Social reforms are wonderful, but they should only cost you money to enact. After that, they don't need to be funded more than the ruling party decides. Minimize that cost, and try to get a L-F party in power to be able to reduce the cost to 0.

If the factories are not profitable, they should be closed. I've noticed that weapons are usually a bad investment, while steel and lumber are good industries. Browse through your factories and close the useless ones to get better profit. Also increase the productivity in the factories, by promoting the 2 biggest (of 5 pops) in each factory to clerks.

And, off course make sure there are rails everywhere possible.
Good luck!

 

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Health Care in particular is very important. I find that giving up economy control is worth the increase in population growth. It's insane what happens when you migrate your population into the highest growth population, you literally have to check every couple of months just to split up clerks.

 

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well I meant also why my pop's cash reserves fall from healthy 100's to zero after making social reforms, or industrializing and putting them into factories. ISn;t that the point of this game?

 

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What you may be seeing is the cash is actually being spent on late game goods that are now available for your pops to purchase. Early on there are no telephones , auto's , oil for your pops to spend the cash buying. Also I think I remeber reading how as you discover more commerce techs your pops also want to buy more high end goods to fulfil the needs.

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