How TF do i use my investment pool???

[Commissar Tordez]

I see if filling up, i know i should be able to use it, but all the info about it i can find is a year old and the ♥♥♥♥ dosnt work that way anymore. SO HOW DO I USE IT!?

[GoldRumble]

You don't really "use" it per ce, the investment pool is like a safety net before you start running in the red and it is also used by capitalists to build stuff on their own. So if let's say you have maxed your investment pool then you should start building a lot of stuff.

[Commissar Tordez]

Originally posted by GoldRumble:

You don't really "use" it per ce, the investment pool is like a safety net before you start running in the red and it is also used by capitalists to build stuff on their own. So if let's say you have maxed your investment pool then you should start building a lot of stuff.

but i still have to pay for my own construction costs. so whats the point

[🌹KomradeKarl🌹]

If you're not on command economy, then the capitalists will build buildings using it (they'll also use a part of your construction sectors (the amount used depends on the economy law)), but buildings that you build yourself, will still cost you money.
If you're on command economy or playing with autonomous investment off, then the investment pool will be used to cover the cost of the buildings you're building yourself

[GoldRumble]

Originally posted by Commissar Tordez:

Originally posted by GoldRumble:

You don't really "use" it per ce, the investment pool is like a safety net before you start running in the red and it is also used by capitalists to build stuff on their own. So if let's say you have maxed your investment pool then you should start building a lot of stuff.

but i still have to pay for my own construction costs. so whats the point

Again you do pay for it but once you start building and losing money you will take money from your investment pool and once that deplets you'll start running in the red and being indebt.

[Daonar]

Originally posted by GoldRumble:

Originally posted by Commissar Tordez:

but i still have to pay for my own construction costs. so whats the point

Again you do pay for it but once you start building and losing money you will take money from your investment pool and once that deplets you'll start running in the red and being indebt.

It doesn't work that way, saidly. If your balance is negative, that negative gets directly subsctracted from your reserves.

So the point of "investment pool" stays unclear.

[Glitch]

So, the Investment Pool. Business Owners pay into the Pool according to your Economic Law. The same Law also regulates, for what the money in the Pool can be used e.g. only Agriculture or also Mines and Factories, depending on the Economic Law.

When you build something that can use the Investment Pool, the Construction Costs will be payed from the Pool, as long as the Pool has Money in it. It may still say, you have Construction Costs but there should be an additional entry in the overview where it says withdraw from Investment Poll or something similar.

So building something, that uses the Investment Pool, helps you with your Budget.