late game economy

[chaddy]

so i always find late game economy goods value are wildly different area to area, has anyone noticed this am i suppose to be doing something to offset this?
my economy usually gets up there and then i hit that wall and i'm running low on one item barely producing it because the factories are not churning out the product because as far as they are concerned the items not worth producing but according to your market. there is not enough in my market so very cheap i almost never din that early game.

for example i have 2 steel mills one is operating just fine electricity is a little expensive but it's at least making money - this is in Yorkshire
the other in ulster is making no money as according this factory tools are stupidly expensive here

[kgkong]

Productivity of industry can vary from state to state based on wages. Usually the key difference is incorporated state versus unincorporated state. The other usual culprit which actually really impacts good prices is market access not being 100%.

Make sure you also have plenty of convoys in reserve, cause you can get raided during war and outside of war and that can impact your market access of states not connected to your capital state by land.

[chaddy]

hmm both above states above are incorporated, got plenty of conveys and yeah i wondered about market access but there both 100%.
although i do have issues with keeping market access above 100% for me more industrialised states. usually because the train network has trouble staying cash positive

is there much point on incorporating over seas territories as i own most of Africa?

[kgkong]

Originally posted by chaddy:

hmm both above states above are incorporated, got plenty of conveys and yeah i wondered about market access but there both 100%.
although i do have issues with keeping market access above 100% for me more industrialised states. usually because the train network has trouble staying cash positive

is there much point on incorporating over seas territories as i own most of Africa?

There you go then, it's your states that don't have 100% market access elsewhere causing a difference in prices everywhere else.

Incorporate for taxes. Leave unincorporated for whatever colonialism institute benefits you have set, and the lower wages. Incorporated states can get costly in bureaucracy though.

[chaddy]

nah they both had 100% market access things have settled down, but my GDP keeps bobbing at 1b

[MJAnderson]

So prices for goods are the same in all states that have 100% access. When you look at the mouse over, there are 2 prices --- for my state and for my market. Those should be the same unless you have access or convoy issues.

some industries just don't make money --- railroads are more for infrastructure and things like power generation and engines are often break even.

have you updated the game? there was an issue in earlier patches where wages grew too much from profits such that a long standing profitable business increased wages too much so that the same industry in a new state would undercut it. It took a while to equalize again.