Question marks when trying to build an industry?

[El Kabong]

I've been playing the scenarios, and I've run headlong into a problem: when I'm trying to build an industry, they keep having ??? listed in the price field. Not all of them, the basics are fine - Meat, breweries, sawmills and so on. Those I can buy and place. But then ones like the candy factory, steel, the furniture factory - those I cant buy.

The "manual" and the help is utterly, there's no clarification about if I dont have some kind of technology unlocked or that I've not reached a certain date or what.

Thoughts? Is this a bug? What's the deal?

[El Kabong]

Here's what I'm seeing (assuming this works) -

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1349825582

[gardlt]

This means that there is no demand for their output good anywhere on the map. You aren't able to build them yet. Normally that means growing cities except for special cases like the Steel Mill where you need to build an industry that consumes Steel such as Tool Maker, Auto Factory, or Cannery.

Completely agree that documentation has room for improvement. Such industries were previously invisible before patch 1.2

[futureboy]

It means that there are no cities on the map that require the product. Cities have to reach a certain population, I do not remember off hand, to get those products. Like furniture, I think you need at city at 115,000 before a city will accept it, so you cannot manufacture it yet.

Richard

[Dray Prescot]

Go into a city and look at the left side and do the eye glass (or magnifying glass), it will show what goods are demanded by size of population in any city for your current map, which campaign, date, and time period conditions. At least one city on the map has to demand that good for the question marks for an industry to turn into a money price to build that industry.

So there is something to be said for having at least one city that grows fairly quickly up to 60,000 and then over 100,000 so that the various Industry type buildings are available for you to use whenever new City Lots for Industry get added at the 40,000 and 90,000 population levels. Otherwise you may find some private investors building the wrong industry on that newly available lot, or find yourself being forced to build not your best/planned choice there to keep your own ownership of that lot, and then later be forced to pay a fee to dismantle that Industry just to build what you really want there (and you might have to engage in auction to buy out any private investors as well).

[pop90954]

It means that the city is not large enough to build that particular factory. Grow it and try again. Cheers.