The game ends when 50k in debt

[Tizzitch]

Is this a bug or a new feature? I'm fine if it is a new feature but I find myself falling below that line quite often whilst my docks have hundreds of thousands stocked up in them

[Frank ist Krank]

No. You can choose if you want to quit or continue.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Frank ist Krank:

No. You can choose if you want to quit or continue.

Not in Caribbean Skies you can't, the game ends at 50k debt. (unless you use the exploit to avoid it)

Originally posted by Tizzitch:

Is this a bug or a new feature? I'm fine if it is a new feature but I find myself falling below that line quite often whilst my docks have hundreds of thousands stocked up in them

In Caribbean Skies this is considered a new feature to increase difficulty. Do note that you are actually given enough money on every one of the new missions to avoid losing this way. I've completed all of the new missions on the hardest difficulty without going into 50k debt, so it can be done.

The secret is to expand slowly and always keep a positive balance. Understanding that you need a cushion to get you through between exports you will fail by overbuilding. Stay focused on steady growth and the mission objectives, not just trying to arbitrarily ramp up your economy (which you honestly don't need to do for these missions)

The focus is very much on meeting the story goals and moving from one to the next, not sitting around making yourself rich and the economic bounce you are experiencing comes from trying to make money quickly, which you just don't need to do.

The only mission where expanding quickly is sort of needed is the final one where you have a time limit to win, but you also start with a million dollars so you can still just play smart and not spend it all at once, you should never be in that much debt.
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Having said all of that, I experienced the same issue as you when I first started playing these new missions. The original ones didn't care if you went into debt and gave you the continue option and a lot of players fall into the trap of playing the game that way. While I have since figured out how to play without going into debt and failing, there's a secret exploit I found by accident as well, but it is very much a cheat and doesn't only solve the debt failure, it will exploit and ignore any failure, so I don't suggest using this other than to experiment.

The core of the game still allows saves to be made no matter what pop up window is in your face. Have you failed due to debt or any other reason? Do NOT push "OK" or "return to menu" just let that window sit there.

You have two ways you can make a save at this point: Let the game sit idle until it makes an autosave (which continues on behind the window) or use your mouse to push the menu button up in the corner and manually save. Whichever method you choose: load that save.

When you reload, the failure window will come up again, but now with an "OK or continue" rather than ending the game. You can now play the mission without any fail conditions.

Be aware however that this removes all difficulty completely as it will not only ignore failures from debt, but it will ignore legit failures from any other event that should have caused you to lose. This breaks the game and makes it impossible to lose.

If you want to play the game legit, learn how to cushion your economy growth and never go into debt, I promise all the new missions can be completed correctly.

If you just want to experiment and don't care, use the save/load trick, the game will ignore all failure conditions from that point forward (even story related ones)