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Puppy Butler 10 Feb, 2018 @ 1:09am
Losing money when nothing is happening
I was having a lot of money problems in my last save, it seemed like i was losing money for no reason at all, so i paused every trade route, stopped every station from functioning, then scooted the game forward one day at a time. Most days, nothing happened, but every 3-5 days, i would lose 16k-50k all at once. what . is going on. Additionally, upon getting from 250k to 0 via these random losses, I scrapped some ships to see! they scrap for Negative 400-2000. I scrapped a ship and went from 114 to 0.

What is this? just glitchy? early access? am I missing something? what is Up

*the edit is that I removed a mid-sentence capital letter that was making the post feel more alarming
Last edited by Puppy Butler; 10 Feb, 2018 @ 4:32pm
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Stranger 10 Feb, 2018 @ 1:11am 
Hi ! Are you sure that no stations has any input ste to allow trade ? Stopping them isn't the issue - they currently don't cost anything to run. The issue is often that they default to allowing trading.
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Puppy Butler 10 Feb, 2018 @ 1:21am 
Oh I see, a few of them do allow trading, though I'm not totally sure on what that means or how to not lose money from it?

btw the game is completely fantastic and exactly what I've wanted for a long time :> <3
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Stranger 10 Feb, 2018 @ 1:29am 
Well, if they do accept trading they will keep buying resources to feed production. You're not technically losing money, you're probably just buying more resources than you are selling (your money is in cargo, basically). This is part of the stuff we want to address in our next large feature update.
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Puppy Butler 10 Feb, 2018 @ 12:31pm 
Thank you for the replies, that makes a lot of sense and is very good and cool :> :>
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Hariwulf 17 Mar, 2018 @ 2:10pm 
This is happening to me as well. I only have 2 stations, a Research and a Telescope, and I am losing money constantly, even setting them to Not trade at all.

Is here some unexplained crazy maintenance cost or what?

I also tried stopping all trading routes (from 73% to 94% successful), but I keep losing money.
I am getting very confused
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Hariwulf 18 Mar, 2018 @ 6:05am 
Originally posted by Hariwulf:
This is happening to me as well. I only have 2 stations, a Research and a Telescope, and I am losing money constantly, even setting them to Not trade at all.

Is here some unexplained crazy maintenance cost or what?

I also tried stopping all trading routes (from 73% to 94% successful), but I keep losing money.
I am getting very confused

What I meant is that I:

- Halter trade route and reset stats to double check: routes are good.
- Own only 2 stations: Telescope and Science lab
- Halted trading function on my 2 stations. Stopped both stations. Still losing money

I had few long travels, didn't checked much the money because I was doing few runs. Next thing I know I have a hole in my founds. There is something sinking money every few days.

The game is about building stations, now, I am not sure WHAT is draining money (and maybe we should get a detailed overview of our economic movements, since they are a big chunk of this game), but I suspect is stations because before building them my credits were increasing.
I would just like a confirmation before scrapping them.
Last edited by Hariwulf; 18 Mar, 2018 @ 6:12am
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Hariwulf 18 Mar, 2018 @ 6:24am 
Some trade routes were not that profitable, I had to manually check each step and price to spot it.
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Stranger 18 Mar, 2018 @ 11:23am 
Make sure your stations are not buying resources. I believe they default to buying resources. The overview is coming - see my other response ;)
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Hariwulf 18 Mar, 2018 @ 12:02pm 
Originally posted by Stranger:
Make sure your stations are not buying resources. I believe they default to buying resources. The overview is coming - see my other response ;)

It was some trade routes generating negative revenues.
I couldn't see it anywhere, I had to manually check each step of each trading Fleet.

I couldn't notice it before because I was also losing money from stations. Then I stopped the stations, but I was losing income still, so I eventually guessed it was the trade.

Troubleshooting took a while.
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