Accumulated wealth glitch

[Hawker44]

My accumulated wealth went 50,000 to 500, and now won't go above 2500 before it drops to 500 again. Pops are happy, all needs met. Population is stable, not losing people. Productions are online and running fine. At this point I can't go forward with the game as I can't purchase any big projects. Anyone else having this problem?

[olympe]

Not any more - but this kind of thing tends to happen when you over-produce stuff. Or when you have too many ships.
Try the key combination STRG+Q and look at your stats: How much do you produce (lower bar), and how much do you actually need (upper bar)? If you produce too much, you'll be paying for production lines where you cannot sell the product to your population. And, no, selling it in your trading post won't give you a net gain, it will only reduce the amount of money you lose. Also, unless you have at least electricity available, do not produce your own steel beams, but buy them from Archie. (It's cheaper. Really.)

Also, do you have any auto-buy things going on - be it via trade route or via your trading post?

[Hawker44]

Thanks for your reply. I was thinking the same as you so I let the game run and watched all the production lines to see if there was something there but couldn't find anything. I called it a glitch because the loss of accumulated wealth would be instantaneous. The only thing I could think of was that it started after I established a settlement in the new world. After letting the game run I made sure I had positive cash flow and watched the population growth for awhile. Here also I would see a fluctuation where I would loose people and then gain them back. Since the only thing I could really afford to do was build more houses I went on a building spree and built houses in both the old world and the new world. Eventually I was able to increase the overall population to the next level and that seems to have fixed the problem. Now I am able to accumulate wealth again.

[olympe]

Here also I would see a fluctuation where I would loose people and then gain them back.

ou did not supply all needs (or lifestyle needs) fully, thus the change in population. And a change in population means a change in income.

However, the instantaneous nature of your loss of money as well as the fact that it never went below 500 indicates that you're auto-buying something that you can afford under normal circumstances, but not when your population is low.