You are not prestigious enough to buy my garbage

[DesertSnow]

Hello everyone!

I recently returned to Victoria 2. I was enjoying a game as Greece (PDM) when I noticed the following phenomenon:

The world market suffers from a lack of concrete, as evidenced by the inability of my government to buy any. The funny thing is, that not all available concrete is sold, i.e.

"demand" > "supply" >"actually sold"

I know that "demand" is the total need, independent of whether the pops/governments actually have the money to buy. If I remember correctly, it is what decides the price.
I also know that prestige determines the order by which a resource becomes available to each country.

Does the amount a country (pops/government) NEEDS is removed from the world market even if it doesn't actually have the money to buy the specified amount? This would explain why my low-prestige country cannot buy any of that not-actually-sold cement in the global market.

 

[KonradRichtmark]

That particular discrepancy between demand, supply and actual bought has been around in different forms throughout the existence of the game. At least back in the day, it was known as the Desire =/= Demand inequality, or D!=d for short. That because it was thought to be caused by POPs trying but failing to buy goods, and in doing so registering demand but not actually managing to buy.

Demand is supposed to be actual demand in the economic sense, i.e. wanting and being ready and able to pay for it, but various bugs cause it to not always match.

I think your issue is caused by what I describe in this thread. TLDR: Countries in spheres other than the sphere master are only able to export a certain fraction of their produce, the rest is reserved for domestic use regardless of whether there is domestic demand for it. The entire produce shows up as supply though, even if not all of that supply is actually available for the international market. PDM has higher fractions of goods reserved for the domestic market than the vanilla game, that probably causes it.

 

[DesertSnow]

Thanks!