Average Sales and Purchase Prices

[Boomer21]

Hey everyone probably a stupid question but this game as brought out my inner ignorance. I am currently playing as Australia nad all is well except for the fact that my average sales prices are extreme. I can hardly sell anything at all as a result but I can purchase purchase products just fine. Is there any way to gradually lower my average sales prices? Oh and as a completely unrelated question, is anyone having any bugs in regards to campaign promises? Out of my 13 or so promises, 4 are saying they haven't been met despite the fact that they have. For example, I made a promise to increase real estate taxes to 3.80 and despite the fact that it clearly is now at 3.80, the game says I haven't kept that promise yet. Anyone know if I am doing something stupid or is this a common bug? Thanks for any input!

[Bata Sale]

Regarding sales prices, high sales prices are good actually. Since you are playing as a developed country with high living standard the best way to increase profit is to lower prices of raw materials needed for production of that product or to subsidize that product. You can also lower taxes but that is expensive and it will destroy your budget. Your prices are determined by purchase prices of raw materials (pre-requisites for production of that product), salary level of workers in the industry, various taxes but also quality of your product etc. You increase your quality by tech research and better education of workers. So investing in education and research is investment in future profit and growth. Just increase investment in agro training in education and watch your farming sector grow.

So the best way to make money is to hit those subsidies and import raw materials at low prices. You want your purchase prices low and sales prices high. Difference between purchase and sales price is what creates jobs, grows production and makes your moneyz!

Don't sell or buy stuff with contracts a lot. Do that only for sectors you wish to grow. Your economy exports goods by itself, sales/purchase contract only makes sales/purchase price a guaranteed price for the amount of goods covered with contract for a certain period of time (5 years by default). You can also try importing raw materials (volume purchase contract) required for production of certain goods from countries that sell it at low prices. For example, I played with Mali and boomed car industry by buying cheap steel from India and tires from Italy. Purchase price of cars went down and sales price stayed the same, but actual production, demand for my cars, jobs, profit and tax income went up.

Again, don't make too many sales/purchase contracts. It will boom your growth and money in short time, but it will create high inflation by the end of the year which will murder your currency and budget.

[Boomer21]

Originally posted by Aleksandar Vasic:

Regarding sales prices, high sales prices are good actually. Since you are playing as a developed country with high living standard the best way to increase profit is to lower prices of raw materials needed for production of that product or to subsidize that product. You can also lower taxes but that is expensive and it will destroy your budget. Your prices are determined by purchase prices of raw materials (pre-requisites for production of that product), salary level of workers in the industry, various taxes but also quality of your product etc. You increase your quality by tech research and better education of workers. So investing in education and research is investment in future profit and growth. Just increase investment in agro training in education and watch your farming sector grow.

So the best way to make money is to hit those subsidies and import raw materials at low prices. You want your purchase prices low and sales prices high. Difference between purchase and sales price is what creates jobs, grows production and makes your moneyz!

Don't sell or buy stuff with contracts a lot. Do that only for sectors you wish to grow. Your economy exports goods by itself, sales/purchase contract only makes sales/purchase price a guaranteed price for the amount of goods covered with contract for a certain period of time (5 years by default). You can also try importing raw materials (volume purchase contract) required for production of certain goods from countries that sell it at low prices. For example, I played with Mali and boomed car industry by buying cheap steel from India and tires from Italy. Purchase price of cars went down and sales price stayed the same, but actual production, demand for my cars, jobs, profit and tax income went up.

Again, don't make too many sales/purchase contracts. It will boom your growth and money in short time, but it will create high inflation by the end of the year which will murder your currency and budget.

This is perfect! Thank you that explained everything in an easy to understand way. Kudos! :)

[Bata Sale]

No problem. And don't forget, the game is in endless mode. As long as your character is not overthrown by parliament/army or murdered you can keep playing. Even as opposition. If your prime minister's or president's term limit is out and you win election with another candidate of your party you switch to that character. So play slowly. Don't rush things.

BTW, a minor influences in profit and growth can be achieved by joining organizations and controlling currency. So for example an EU country will have advantage in selling goods in other EU countries because there are no import tarrifs. So Italy will be more competitive in selling tyres to Germany than India because of similar prices, but no tarrif for Italy. Also, lower strength currency is good for exports. In RL China keeps yuan low artificially in order to keep exports competitive.