Whats with the " Too much debt " game over?

[76561198051514398]

Its pretty easy to get -50,000K in debt temporarily in this game, it seems around era switches it happens a lot.

I mean, you can keep playing and recover from the debt pretty easily, so what does it do? I don't understand, it acts like it's a game-over but it's not, does it take my score away or something?

[Bored Peon]

I find it annoying honestly. Simply because with a large island population you can easily deplete your cash reserves waiting on the next ship.

The way around it is best by placing a multiple docks to spread your income out over time. Whether you have one dock or three docks your income is the same, it is jsut the intervals you receive it at.

[76561198051514398]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

I find it annoying honestly. Simply because with a large island population you can easily deplete your cash reserves waiting on the next ship.

The way around it is best by placing a multiple docks to spread your income out over time. Whether you have one dock or three docks your income is the same, it is jsut the intervals you receive it at.

Yeah, exactly.

I have 3 docks, 2 on the same island and one on another. I guess i'll need more and some more teamsters.

[madmalfike]

I have two docks with 17 Teamster buildings servicing them. I have another 34 Teamster buildings scattered around the big main island. Cash is at $958,095 , pop 1839, and 89% happiness. I took to heart you need a lot of teamsters. :-)
I still can't get out of the World Wars. era.

[Bored Peon]

I just did the Superpower War map until 2060 or so and failed because my economy was STILL broke as a $2 @#$%^ addicted to crack..

Before starting over again in frustration I took the time to look at the entertainment buildings on the map. To put it simply they all sucked @#$% through a silly straw. Not a single service building ever turned a profit.

I restarted the map I destroyed every service building the map started with. Then I went through the map starting from the bottom up. Wood choppers, lumber mills, shipyard (ie reworking every production chain and placing it.)

Now here I sit with 500 pop and maybe 6 entertainment buildings and about 500k cash.

They need to fix the entertainment buildings.

Here is a good example. My Cabaret with service quality 88 and 135% efficiency sits 16 citizens (and is always full.) Yet it only has 4 visitors a month. So that means with a $24 fee it makes $24 a month after expenses ($96-$72 budget-$24.)

So by thinking you are "providing a needed service" and building entertainment buildings you are probably just choking your economy.

Meanwhile Newspapers and Radios are great money makes if you have them set to the advertisements and sponsored media.