My capitalist's cash question

[unmerged(11439)]

I just converted a game from EU2 to Vic:Rev. Anywayno problems the first 15-20 years I had no problems. My capitalists did thre thing; factories, railroads, etc. Anyway after that ally capitalists stop building completely. I've looked at them and nationwide their cash floats from 90-95. I'm not exactly sure what the problem. I have the rich taxes set to zero. My nation is pretty big after EU2 and I import nothing. All the same I tried subsidising the trade to see if that made an effect and it did not. I promoted a pop who had 0 cash and it increased to the 90-95 area and just joined the others.

Not sure if the world economy can effect it at all but its 1880's and many countries are just starting to build railroads and such. I've tried lots of things but I can't figure out what the problem is.

ideas?

 

[Orm]

What is your government's economic policy?

 

[unmerged(11439)]

laissez faire

 

[Orm]

It looks like your capitalists have trouble buying all their needs. I can see two possible reasons. 1) The world seems to have lagged behind in industrial development and can't keep supply in level with demand on products your capis want. Also capitalist demands increase with technology, so your capis want more and more. 2) You may have too many capitalists, so that the national income is not enough to go around.

 

[Gwalcmai]

What is your tariff rate? I'm not sure if going negative on that actually gets your pops more money to buy stuff or limits itself to burning a giant hole in your income, but maybe you could try that?

£90-95 probably means they reach £100 (the threshold for buying luxury goods), buy all the luxury goods they can get their hands on, and get thrown below the threshold again.

 

[unmerged(11439)]

Well it isn't too many capitalists. I taxed them 100% for a while and crushed there numbers. Back to 0% tax and they went back to the same old thing. My national income is extremely high, I did try the subsidize tariff but it didn't seem to have any impact.

I also have massive stockpiles of everything, I'm the lead producer of everything minus canned goods. I could probably go communist or socialist and easily afford all the upgrades and such myself its just a pain in the neck to have to babysit the economy while have better things to do.

 

[OHgamer]

Cash flow fluctuating at 90-95 in reserves means they can buy luxury needs, but the cost of those luxury needs is greater than their daily income, which pushes their reserve income below 100, and you end up in a loop

You need to expand export income. keep stock of goods only in amounts needed to maintain production, and export the rest to the world market. Sitting on huge stockpiles does not really do a heck of a lot of good, since your POPs do not buy their needs frm your stockpile but from goods that are sent out to the WM, so let your nation get the revenue.

also if you have not been splitting POPs, split them, especially if you have highly productive RGOs. Because of the tiered nature of POP production in Victoria, 2 smaller POPs produce more output than one large one. What you need to maximize now is output and getting that output to the world market so that your capis have the income to not just buy their lux needs but also build their reserves past 100.