Why does my factory say it's unable to afford all inputs when it has plenty of budget?

[Microphage]

The input icons on my artillery factory are both red. When I hover over one of them, I see the message "Factory couldn't afford to buy all its inputs yesterday."

This doesn't make sense to me, since the current factory budget (which I understand to be the cash the factory has stockpiled) is 61, and the total daily cost of all inputs and maintenance goods is 18. Why would the factory be unable to afford all of its inputs?

Sometimes I even get this message when I'm subsidizing the factory, which I understand to mean that I'm paying for whatever the factory can't afford by itself.

Does anybody know what might be going on here?

 

[Poppis]

Just because a factory has money doesn't mean it can buy everything it needs. It might be that there simply wasn't enough of the desired good in the market for the factory to buy.

 

[Microphage]

When the goods aren't available on the market, I get a different message, saying "There's not enough <whatever> on the market to satisfy factory input needs."

 

[Poppis]

Are you playing with any mods?

 

[Microphage]

No mods. Just the latest version from Steam including both expansions.

 

[Poppis]

Ok I have no idea, lol. The reason I asked about mods is that some(well at least HPM) has modifiers that increase import costs. Tariffs would increase the cost of the goods but even with 100% effective tariffs it should still have enough money.

 

[Poppis]

Oh wait. Factories need to pay wages to the workers and capitalists, so that's probably what's messing it.

 

[Microphage]

Wages are a portion of the net profit, "sales price - price of inputs and maintenance." They are calculated after inputs are purchased and final product is sold. I don't see how the workers' wages could cause a factory to be unable to afford it's inputs, Besides, the factory has 61 money stored up and its inputs cost 18.

 

[Poppis]

Right, never mind then.

 

[Nashetovich]

The input icons on my artillery factory are both red. When I hover over one of them, I see the message "Factory couldn't afford to buy all its inputs yesterday."

This doesn't make sense to me, since the current factory budget (which I understand to be the cash the factory has stockpiled) is 61, and the total daily cost of all inputs and maintenance goods is 18. Why would the factory be unable to afford all of its inputs?

Sometimes I even get this message when I'm subsidizing the factory, which I understand to mean that I'm paying for whatever the factory can't afford by itself.

Does anybody know what might be going on here?

Because as old meme says "deny money achieve rating" or something. Can't find the meme picture now. Idea is it's not the money what allows you to buy things (silly you) it's what your rating does. https://vic2.paradoxwikis.com/Trade#Trade order

Underlying reason is, as I investigated, is that prices have change limits. That limits influence of demand/supply balance, even if you are super rich you can't buy more, cause price met it's limit (x5 in both direction, as I found). So whole market self-balance idea works only on some price interval..

Don't know why devs did it, hopefully it's not mistake but necessary solution. Though I made own simulation, with smallest limits.

 

[cristofolmc]

Trade and production in Victoia isn't like in real life, where if something runs low, its price goes up, and only people able to pay it get it. Here it doesn't matter how much money you've got. If you're not a top 5 country, you will not be getting it. Possibly even if you are the 2nd. Production works really bad and there is no many ways to increase production for a higly demanded good like in real life, where, take petrol as an exmple, the more you want it, the more there seems to be + fraking and other stuff. Not in victoria.