Losing money (gold coins)

[Edgar_cesar]

Hello! I've been playing this game for a while, but I seem to have a problem with my newest kingdom. The thing is, I keep losing money, even though the balance of expenses, income and revenue seems to be in my favor...
It says that I am making from +300000 to +500000 in the side bar, but somehow still my treasure keeps getting lower and lower, it was around 7 million, and now it is just 500000 or so, I've already stopped buying anything, just keep selling with my trading companies (which cost 1 of upkeep, and already have 0% fee on trading) adjusted the maintenance of my industrial buildings to 3 gold coins at most (usually had them in 5), and I'm using frugality cards on almost all of the most expensive buildings. I even made those coin factories which I usually never build...
Am I doing something wrong? Am I losing track of something?
Thanks in advance for any advice!

[Edgar_cesar]

Yeah I hope so, I also stopped playing because of that.
Also just to clarify, in the town where this happened, I had all the resources as a "local produce", and got all my needs covered trading directly with AI, so my trading companies doesn't even had anything selected on the "import" section, so it was all exports, and consequently a positive trading balance... so I don't know

[Celtic-Soul]

Mate I found a solution thanks to the discord's help :

Go to your townhall, and set income to "very low", see if money goes up after it.
If it doesn't, play with the different tax settings until you see money going up again
that's it.

For whatever reason, I got positive income when setting very low tax and negative income on every other tax settings. Temporary fix but it works ;)

[Edgar_cesar]

That did the trick :D thank you so much man

[Celtic-Soul]

Edgar_cesar a écrit :

That did the trick :D thank you so much man :No1:

glad to hear :) you may flag it as an answer to the thread, more people will surely find themselves in this problem in the future ;)

[Troub4dour]

So I don't know the reason the game is doing this, but I think I have diagnosed the ISSUE. I don't really have a fix for it though. First, I do think this is a bug. I was dealing with the same issue as a few people here. Losing between 4213-4219 gold ever second or so on the fastest game speed. Yes, I did the math. I saved and literally destroyed my town looking for the cause. I FOUND IT. At least for me. I believe it has something to do with taxation. I was running very high taxes because I could get away with it being that my happiness is over 100%. But when I switched to very low taxes, I started making money again. It seems to be an issue with "very high taxes" specifically. I start making money again on every other option. Idk if this is an issue with a wrap around integer in the code somewhere or what but thats my best guess as to what caused this bug, but if you wanted to try it and see if it worked for you. Ik this is a couple months late, but hey, figured I would post what I found because I haven't seen any other post about this.

[FrankMintor]

Yeah, I can second this. It seems to be something with taxes. I removed all trades and still was going negative every tick. Once I changed it from Medium tax to Low tax, I started to make money again.

[Thamalandis]

Typically in most games you'd expect an integer overflow to be the problem when making too much money is suddenly making a loss instead. However Int16 is 65000 or 130000 unsigned and Int32 is 2 billion or 4 billion unsigned.

As those don't fit the margins described, this would imply that getting too many taxes is not the problem.

One could now speculate that too high taxes make people unhappy and "tax evade" (paying nothing instead of more). If this was an actual system though, the question is why the actual UI doesn't properly show this tax evasion and runs a red in the background.