State Support

I ask the State to support company owners by buying their products to use in the state companies
Grain wont be a problem, but Iron also needs to be bought

Our Iron is under attack by empty companies, this way I cant keep my company open forever
I am prepared to sell Iron at 0.08BEF, but if I go lower then the wages of 20BEF (10 and 11 Gurus) and 19BEF (9) I make loss

Selling at 0.08BEF is the lowest I can do

I ask support from the State to buy Iron from Real companies, not just mine, also other real active iron and grain companies
Use the iron as a stock or to supply our army

It's times like this that I thank god for my iron company's export lisences.

I am also willing to sell at 0.08 (maybe 0.07 sometimes) but much lower is suicide. The grain is okay for me atm, but I can't see it lasting much longer.

I guess this is happening all over the world, but in such a small economy, it's gonna be magnified.

I think this is a good idea if you can get it going.

Well, with the current export licences it is impossible to do it without having a huge production loss.

Our only export licences are Netherlands (100% import taxes) and spain where the currency is far lower than our and the selling price is 50% than the belgian price.

Even with 0.05 BEF as raw price, as we need 60 Unit to produce 1 unit, it'd lead to a cost of 3 BEF just for the raw. This is more than the price that we could have while exportating weapons.

The other possibility would be a prospection to begin to export to other countries, or to use it for ourselves. But there are no war and so no internal market consumption, so unless the MoD has an other idea in his head it'll be hard to provide help.

There is a big problem in Belgium which is that there is no consumption...

How about food (Q1 in my case) ?

I'm afraid this will only help on short notice. This could be done if we knew the admins would change the economy module but we all know that that is never going to happen.

I could be selfish like some other people and simply buy me another grain company and iron company and start producing for my own, to supply myself
but Im not as selfish as Zimmah for example

I try to keep the economy stable, but as long as there are people who want to destroy our economy they simply will be able to do so

Our gov should have received a boost from the recently hightend grain import taxes, so with that money and some extras, it should be able to give people a job and at the same time help real companies survive this masacre

the job market is completly f**ked as well. If food prices hadn't plummeted, I'd open that one back up to employ people. I'm employing like more than 10% of the workforce already :S

I would be glad to help, but need some advice. I have just opened a grain company, but have not been able to get any workers yet. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, if there are actually people out there looking for work and not finding it.

Glenn Wauters wrote:
Our gov should have received a boost from the recently hightend grain import taxes, so with that money

This doesn't help us at all, rising the grain import taxes are just impeaching people to export, but that doesn't provide more money to the state.

@MaryamQ i've been able to hire 4 workers now. You just have to give the highest wage. It's the only thing people look at and not only in the lower skill levels. Problem I have is getting my grain sold to insure a cash flow. I've only just started but if it goes on like this I will have to close down.

Bert_en_Ernie wrote:@MaryamQ i've been able to hire 4 workers now. You just have to give the highest wage. It's the only thing people look at and not only in the lower skill levels. Problem I have is getting my grain sold to insure a cash flow. I've only just started but if it goes on like this I will have to close down.

Same here ... have to sell my food at prices that are just too low to make a profit ...
But still try to offer decent wage and hanging in there ...

Bert_en_Ernie wrote:@MaryamQ i've been able to hire 4 workers now. You just have to give the highest wage. It's the only thing people look at and not only in the lower skill levels. Problem I have is getting my grain sold to insure a cash flow. I've only just started but if it goes on like this I will have to close down.

you don't need the highest wages, but some decent wages are good.
don't start exceeding the wages, but only match them, and you get (if you put offers in all categories) very fast some employees

I get a lot of workers in the level 9 categorie since I'm the only one providing work there for now.

Problem is that it's difficult to put wages out since you don't know how your sale prices will be. I hope workers can cope with a decrease of payment when the prices keep dropping on the market. We'll see about that in the future.

It's very simple, the admins killed the economy, and now things are bad, you all come moaning for money from the state. It's just the way it is people... We could start with lowering minimum wage, so that people can work at lower wages, all prices have been going down anyway.

my grain company has been reduced from 4 to 1 worker -_- because of this if they dont put it back i may shut up shop for a while till they realize there mistake which they wont

Can't the govermnment give a short of certification to the belgian companies who still give work and then publish this in a newspaper and advice people to buy from these companies. Perhaps also a sort of logo only these companies may put in the company avatar or something.

In eSouth Africa we have Proudly South African (PSA)
They promote the South African companies.
Something similar could be done here

Bert_en_Ernie wrote:Can't the govermnment give a short of certification to the belgian companies who still give work and then publish this in a newspaper and advice people to buy from these companies. Perhaps also a sort of logo only these companies may put in the company avatar or something.

that sounds like a great idear

Yeah, like if nobody could steal it...

You could publish a list of State approved companies
Companies who give people jobs

indeed

Glenn Wauters wrote:You could publish a list of State approved companies
Companies who give people jobs

I'm planning to do this, but a little more stronger