No Iron in Stockpile

[Pallen]

Hello!

I need iron to expand my factories. How ever when I click the amount needed to BUY in trade window, I still dont get any increase in iron :/

 

[OHgamer]

Hello!

I need iron to expand my factories. How ever when I click the amount needed to BUY in trade window, I still dont get any increase in iron :/

what country are you playing

do you produce iron in your own nation

what is your prestige and overall rank

 

[Pallen]

I play Denmark, rank 11, my prestige is 13 - 24

 

[OHgamer]

do you produce any of your own iron. if no, then you have to depend on access to the world market, which is dependent on your prestige level relative to other nations, if you are too low on the totem pole and other nations are buying all the iron, you'll not be able to acquire it on the world market, just as it was in V1.

 

[safferli]

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[Pallen]

I guess they all eat my iron then

 

[Orpon]

I have the same problem, and I'm playing Sweden. We export iron and still my factories are stuck without it.

 

[unmerged(14905)]

Hello!

I need iron to expand my factories. How ever when I click the amount needed to BUY in trade window, I still dont get any increase in iron :/

Do you have the national stockpile slider maxed (in the budget window)?

 

[Orpon]

I didhave, it didn't help. Then suddenly the factories started building again:wacko:. I have no clue why...

 

[OHgamer]

I didhave, it didn't help. Then suddenly the factories started building again:wacko:. I have no clue why...

factories will acquire iron (or whatever inputs they need) only if they can afford it, if they do not have profits enough from previous sales, they'll not be able to purchase their inputs for the next day until the prices come down enough to purchase them

 

[Baro]

Yeah I'm playing switzerland and I'm exporting Iron and Coal but my steel mill (which is subsidized) constantly complains about a lack of coal and sometimes iron. Built a cement factory and now both it and my steel mill almost never have coal. I guess there's just not enough coal, time to research better mining tech. Some early ones give +100%

 

[Pickle_mole]

Anyone know of some good regions that have coal that i can take as greece? I took a chunk of algeria for the Iron and that worked great but now im lacking coal.

 

[TheGabe]

I'm having the exact same problem (playing as Sweden). I'm also trying to build factories, but nothing happens. I hovered over the factory in question in the outliner, and it says that it has 0.0 of the 21.0 iron needed to start construction.

It doesn't matter if I manually set to buy Iron, or setting to only sell once I have a specific amount in stock. In fact, the stockpile stays at 0 iron whatever I do and so I can't do anything that requires iron. Are the Capis taking all of my iron before I can use it myself or what :wacko:? (there are a few projects in the works, the Capitalists don't seem to have any problem getting the iron)

 

[dodobird18]

I think the problem is that prestige matters in SOI so if you get added to an SOI the great power who most likely has more prestige then you will soak up all your resources making you go to the world market where the great powers are most likely soaking up all the iron and stuff anyway. i had this problem as belgium and when I became a great power and left the SOI my iron crisis was solved.

 

[A_Dane]

Had the same problem as Denmark, i was trying to kick start my capi's (they didn't build anything for years), but since i was not able to aquire iron on the World market, i couldn't do anything :/

 

[Phystarstk]

I'm having a similar problem. I am Sardinia-Piedmont with a rank of about 15. I am in the French SoI (would that matter?). My problem, however, is with coal instead of iron. Specifically, despite having a province that seems to be making ridiculous amounts of coal (like 60 or something), and despite having a Cement factory which usually makes a profit of over 20 a day, sometimes.. it says there's a coal shortage. This is despite the fact that I produce twice as much coal as my country needs. I've even tried buying coal, but the same things happens...

 

[robc04]

Not exactly sure of how it works, but perhaps a country should always get first dibs on the stuff they produce, even when in a SoI.

 

[FrEDa]

I'm having the exact same problem (playing as Sweden). I'm also trying to build factories, but nothing happens. I hovered over the factory in question in the outliner, and it says that it has 0.0 of the 21.0 iron needed to start construction.

It doesn't matter if I manually set to buy Iron, or setting to only sell once I have a specific amount in stock. In fact, the stockpile stays at 0 iron whatever I do and so I can't do anything that requires iron. Are the Capis taking all of my iron before I can use it myself or what :wacko:? (there are a few projects in the works, the Capitalists don't seem to have any problem getting the iron)

Had the same problem, I deducted that the Russians were buying up all Iron since Sweden is in the SOI. I'm not sure, but after reducing relations from +150 to -30 my factories started going (even Cap factories after a while).

Could have been reduced SOI demand though, so not sure.

 

[TheGabe]

Had the same problem, I deducted that the Russians were buying up all Iron since Sweden is in the SOI. I'm not sure, but after reducing relations from +150 to -30 my factories started going (even Cap factories after a while).

Could have been reduced SOI demand though, so not sure.

Yeah, I just lowered relations with the Russians below 100, and now I have iron again.

So in short if you're in a Great Power's sphere of influence, and have over +100 in relations, they'll buy up all the stuff they want and you get none.
I'm guessing that difference in prestige between you and the GP has some influence as well (and Russia, in my game, has over a hundred more than me).

 

[unmerged(45977)]

We really need 3 levels of markets. A local market, SoI market and a world market. I was playing as Belgium preducing quite some iron but all of it was bought by the UK. I was in the UK's SoI. I couldn't expand my factories! Rather rediculous that my mines would ship iron to london when they can sell it for the same price at Bruxelles.

Please fix this at it's a rather major problem for countries that aren't GP's.