Managers complaining about low funds?

[Ducko]

Hey guys, after installing the 2.0 Beta I keep getting notifications from pretty much all of my station managers that they don't have any money left? Even tho there is enough everywhere (They need between 1-20m, every station got 25m). Someone got the same problem?

I managed to make one manager shut up when I added like a couple of thousands of credits to his bank, but that only worked for one or two, the rest of the 20+ keep spamming me with too low funds.

Someone can help me out here?

[HeLLfire]

I'm not sure where\how the manager calculates how much funds he needs, but it seems to increase with your factory size.

As the funds are only used for purchases, and there are no negative effect for being under his "budget" just ignore it.

[Ducko]

Well the only thing is that everytime they inform me about their budget, it throws me out of my SETA :/

[DaddelTobi]

I get these notifications all the time in V1.60 Vanilla and it really wants me to be able to disable these notes as my seta always disengages...

[coconut_willy_97]

This comment pops up often. Did you search before you posted? Sorry, not to be nasty, it just there are a lot of this exact ?.

Here is what I found from other posts, and my own experience:

Based on the number and type of resources required for any factory or function(ship building), the station tries to keep enough $$ on hand to buy more resources as needed to fill the storage area with resources.

So looking at the station storage as half empty, it's possible you may have too much storage. More storage than your manager needs to build the products given a certain time cycle/cost per unit and demand.

Once your storage is full, the demand for resources still seems to yoyo around outside of a comfortable range forcing a message. Even with enough $$ it might still ask for more as demand spikes or ebbs. You'd think that if you're making $$ you don't need more, but the station pays you the excess BEFORE it pays for additional resources.

YMMV depending on you speed of delivery, manager skill(?), demand, and who knows what.

Until they make that little change that stops SETA from dumping out, you probably shouldn't rob the station piggy bank. Even without borrowing, the stations will probably send you requests for more $$.

[steve47antec]

if you get insufficient funds message, after you take funds from a station, put 5 mil back and message goes away

[Patola [Linux]]

Happened to me after I built three large storage modules. Manager wanted more 30 million credits. Greedy ba@#%#. Should have fired him, but he had 4 stars in management.l, which I see as the game equivalent for an MBA Diplomma.

[Malkntnt]

Every station needs working funds... my large base takes something like 55M. If you run under that then you'll get a mission to add funds. I've got a different problem though... that base (which has dozens of manufacturing modules) generates a LOT of cash, and when it gets over a certain amount (80M to 100M or so) the manager starts sending me refunds - but it appears that those refunds are not deducted from the station so he just keeps sending them every 30 minutes to an hour. My total free cash went from 1.5 Billion to over 4 Billion in maybe 12 hours of game time before I realized what was happening. I've actually had to cheat to give it back because it's ruining the game balance (nothing much to strive for when you can buy everything you want).

[eMYNOCK]

Originally posted by MachoBurrito:

Every station needs working funds... my large base takes something like 55M. If you run under that then you'll get a mission to add funds. I've got a different problem though... that base (which has dozens of manufacturing modules) generates a LOT of cash, and when it gets over a certain amount (80M to 100M or so) the manager starts sending me refunds - but it appears that those refunds are not deducted from the station so he just keeps sending them every 30 minutes to an hour. My total free cash went from 1.5 Billion to over 4 Billion in maybe 12 hours of game time before I realized what was happening. I've actually had to cheat to give it back because it's ruining the game balance (nothing much to strive for when you can buy everything you want).

would you mind providing a mod list?
eventually we can track down wich mod is causing that issue...

if you are lucky it may conclude that the source mod is obsolete...