Switching market tanked my economy

[SmiteMeister]

Apparantly I had no idea what I was accepting when I as Sweden accepted something about a market deal (I cant remember the request exactly) but the result was devastating.

For some reason the healthy swedeish market dissappeared and suddenly sweden was a part of the Russian market and it completely tanked my money balance.

What are the implications of that ?
I can still import from the entire world (free trade) but all the goods are now expensive.

Is it possible to recreate my own market again?

I dont know what is happening

help!

[VoiD]

You're basically merging as a single market, anything they are lacking, you are now also lacking, anything they have in excess, you too have in excess.

The good side is that you can now trade away their goods as well.

[SmiteMeister]

So now I lack everything, just like Russia :/ that sucks.
I dont remember being asked to join a customs union. But that apparantly is not what happened.
But can I leave their market?

[Kogoro]

You should be able to leave the custom market by going to that countries interactions menu.

I think i screwed my game over quite a bit when France asked me to join theirs, i accepted but i had so many materials that i over built my nation, so later when i left because i couldn't be one of the top nations i went from 100k income to losing 300k.

It eventually sorted itself out but i had a entire economic collapse later in the game because of companies auto firing people creating large amounts of welfare and radicals.

[Oleary]

You might want to try working your way through it. I had the same thing happen as Belgium, only with the French Market. It took me a year or so to get back on track but the larger market opens up a lot more opportunities.

Having said that, I just re-read your post and perhaps the Russian market isn't as good as the French? FYI, I'm basically a Victoria nube - I played Vic 2 when it first came out, but never figured it out (first PDX game) so take the above advice with a large grain of salt.

[VoiD]

Originally posted by Oleary:

You might want to try working your way through it. I had the same thing happen as Belgium, only with the French Market. It took me a year or so to get back on track but the larger market opens up a lot more opportunities.

Having said that, I just re-read your post and perhaps the Russian market isn't as good as the French? FYI, I'm basically a Victoria nube - I played Vic 2 when it first came out, but never figured it out (first PDX game) so take the above advice with a large grain of salt.

I think the russian market is focused on raw materials, should be good if you want to industrialize and use them to fuel your factories

[AT-Colt]

I had the same issue when I as Australia liberated from the UK market. My economy was tailored to cater to the larger market.
Now I joined the Austrian market and things do look better again; however, I am a middle power and cannot rise further because Austria is the senior member of the market and I therefore count as being dependent on the world power Austria.
Is there a way to join markets on more even terms? I'd like to have the markets joined but also to advance to be a world power without gutting my GPD and SOL.

[th0ma5]

Originally posted by Kogoro:

You should be able to leave the custom market by going to that countries interactions menu.

I think i screwed my game over quite a bit when France asked me to join theirs, i accepted but i had so many materials that i over built my nation, so later when i left because i couldn't be one of the top nations i went from 100k income to losing 300k.

It eventually sorted itself out but i had a entire economic collapse later in the game because of companies auto firing people creating large amounts of welfare and radicals.

Yeah something like this happened to me aswell. The french market allowed me to expand easy but when they kicked me out it was a big disruption. Even worse it was after a war so it was a huge set back. Was tempted to join another union but decided to try and turn it around on my own. Not easy and many years of trying to adjust and rebalance the economy. A good learning experience though.

[Many-Named]

Originally posted by VoiD:

Originally posted by Oleary:

You might want to try working your way through it. I had the same thing happen as Belgium, only with the French Market. It took me a year or so to get back on track but the larger market opens up a lot more opportunities.

Having said that, I just re-read your post and perhaps the Russian market isn't as good as the French? FYI, I'm basically a Victoria nube - I played Vic 2 when it first came out, but never figured it out (first PDX game) so take the above advice with a large grain of salt.

I think the russian market is focused on raw materials, should be good if you want to industrialize and use them to fuel your factories

Seriously, just like you say, this is a good opportunity in the long term