Bug with demand for luxury goods?

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Just the other day I wondered why my Capitalists never ever bought Precious metals or Opium from the WM. Even though they start accumulating reserves, their demand was 0.0 for all luxury goods in general.

What really puzzeled me was that as soon as I started producing fuel, those capitalists started to demand luxury goods?!?

Given the information from another thread that the WM price for PM tends to collapse, maybe one reason migth be that the demand for luxury goods in general needs the production of the first manufactured luxury good to start in general, or the production of fuel. This surely needs some further observation, but maybe you community can jump on that as well?

Im playing with english version of Victoria 1.03b, observation was made as USA with no tariff, taxes set to 32.8 % for everybody and an export surplus of about 1000 pounds/day, playing the GC.

Help and feedback highly appreciated.


Ralph

 

[Generalisimo]

Just the other day I wondered why my Capitalists never ever bought Precious metals or Opium from the WM. Even though they start accumulating reserves, their demand was 0.0 for all luxury goods in general.

What really puzzeled me was that as soon as I started producing fuel, those capitalists started to demand luxury goods?!?

Given the information from another thread that the WM price for PM tends to collapse, maybe one reason migth be that the demand for luxury goods in general needs the production of the first manufactured luxury good to start in general, or the production of fuel. This surely needs some further observation, but maybe you community can jump on that as well?

Im playing with english version of Victoria 1.03b, observation was made as USA with no tariff, taxes set to 32.8 % for everybody and an export surplus of about 1000 pounds/day, playing the GC.

Help and feedback highly appreciated.


Ralph

the luxury needs are these:

capitalists = 
{
	precious_metal = 1
	telephones = 1
	fuel = 1
	automobiles = 1
	aeroplanes = 1
	opium = 1
}

are you sure they didn't even bought opium or precious_metals?

 

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the luxury needs are these:

capitalists = 
{
	precious_metal = 1
	telephones = 1
	fuel = 1
	automobiles = 1
	aeroplanes = 1
	opium = 1
}

are you sure they didn't even bought opium or precious_metals?

Yep, they didn't.

Ralph

 

[SirGrotius]

I was going to post about this, because it seems the price of luxury goods such as precious metals is off. In my game precious metals are the single least-desirable resource a province can produce. Actually, in all my games they almost never surpass the 1 pound mark.