Kansas

imnotthatwierd · Post by **imnotthatwierd** » May 17 2005

I Just Played as Kansas...and its an economical nightmare
within two weeks game time i was in the red...and after a years game play...i had 25% unemployment and about 14% DEflation

altho the point of no-return for my economy was around 2 months in...i couldnt buy in resources, couldnt build units or buildings

i accept some of this is down to me not knowing what to do with the economic side of things...has anyone played as kansas and not gone into the red so early...

any help would be appreciated

aegisx · Post by **aegisx** » May 17 2005

How about some details of what was going wrong?

imnotthatwierd · Post by **imnotthatwierd** » May 17 2005

simply wasnt making money...and when i started going into the red...all production/building/buying in resources stopped

for a start kansas doesnt start with metal ore or uranium...and shortages of these lead to huge problems in producing goods/military equipment/electricity

i didnt have taxes too high to begin with...and i wasnt building expensive units either, there just wasnt money to be made

aegisx · Post by **aegisx** » May 17 2005

Were you running a big trade deficiet?(How do you spell that....)

imnotthatwierd · Post by **imnotthatwierd** » May 17 2005

1 every 4 days i had trade surplus of up to 200Mil at the beginning, but with the days in between i was either losing little amounts or just breaking even

so eventually i was in the red

aegisx · Post by **aegisx** » May 17 2005

I'd see whats going on with your imports and exports... maybe production needs to be increased? Maybeyour making goods more expensive than you could get them from the WM?

imnotthatwierd · Post by **imnotthatwierd** » May 17 2005

the economy screen does give you the cost per unit...but i seem to remember it always being lower than the WM

imnotthatwierd · Post by **imnotthatwierd** » May 18 2005

ok...on any map is there a way to stop unemployment rising, and stop inflation going down, without having huge debt

Legend · Post by **Legend** » May 18 2005

question... did you build a lot of upgrades?

dust off · Post by **dust off** » May 18 2005

imnotthatwierd Keep the faith Kansas is do-able!

Decimatus · Post by **Decimatus** » May 18 2005

Yeah, just take nebraska early on and you should be set. After that it will be a war of attrition with colorado and the dakotas if you don't finish them before they field too large an air force.

imnotthatwierd · Post by **imnotthatwierd** » May 18 2005

Legend wrote:question... did you build a lot of upgrades?

what are upgrades, what exactly do they do?
lol

Decimatus wrote:Yeah, just take nebraska early on and you should be set. After that it will be a war of attrition with colorado and the dakotas if you don't finish them before they field too large an air force.

if you attack early on this map, you end up getting yourself at war with every other region on your border, and then, every new border you get, that region will declare war on you

Legend · Post by **Legend** » May 18 2005

upgrades are what you build on the map, bases, hydro dams, radar stations, roads... If you build too many... then you may run out of money.

3iff · Post by **3iff** » May 23 2005

I had this problem, built too many new bases/factories and quickly drained my cash. I had to send many units to reserve and shut down bases...even halting unit builds.

My exports would raise $200-300m then construction would absorb this cash. I had constant complaints about electricity and ore shortages and I couldn't really do a thing about it. My interest rates kept rising making my economic situation even worse... I eventually achieved some stability but realised I was in a hopeless situation.

Perhaps next time I'll get it right.

imnotthatwierd · Post by **imnotthatwierd** » May 23 2005

i have this big problem where i overspend...lol
except you said you had inflation, whereas i have deflation, and my deflatin economy has arrised more than once..lol