Economics/industrialization

[milesjb]

Why do levels of industry disappear with future turns. I invest for light production in a state on one turn and and a factory icon is created. On the next turn the factory icon has disappeared. Is this a bug or just something i don't understand?

[Stonewall]

The factory icons do not represent new industry. The represent the level of development you are funding. When you begin a new turn and are at a deficit in either $ or war supplies, the industry investment is cancelled. You still benefit from industry already created, but the automatic investment is cancelled.

[jake_g]

I'm playing the north. I have plenty of money and war supplies, but my industrialization keeps dissappearing from the map. Specifically, in New York and New Jersey...places the Rebs haven't reached. It's frustrating to spend the same money over and over again....

[keith]

i built up industry in sc,nc and georgia in the same turn, i had the money and the supplies and yet the next turn the factoriy for sc had gone but the other two were there, how does this work if i had the money and supplies

[Stonewall]

Again. You did not lose anything. When you click on the industrialization map, you are essentially selecting how much to invest. Once the money is invested and the new factories are built (you'll read about these in the news section of the message screen), they are there for good. All the factory icons on the industrialization map represent is the current level of investment for the turn you are in.

[James D Burns]

I'm playing the north. I have plenty of money and war supplies, but my industrialization keeps dissappearing from the map. Specifically, in New York and New Jersey...places the Rebs haven't reached. It's frustrating to spend the same money over and over again....

The factories on the investment screen represent how much money you have allocated to spend on economic development that turn. They are not permanent and will automatically go away if you end a turn with any deficit spending levels (when production numbers turn red at the bottom of most spending screens).

The permanent factories are reported in the text area at the bottom of the screen after a turn’s resolution. These can be observed later by hovering a mouse over a city and looking at the bottom of the chalkboard on the top of the screen.

The chalkboard shows the income of the city your mouse is hovering over on the bottom row and your nation’s total income on the top row. As new factories are built, the city permanently gets an increase to its per-turn income.

Building these factories permanently is a random roll for each state that is based on your per turn investments. I think each state can possibly get 1 factory for each level of investment you spend on the investment screen up to a max of 3, but I haven’t confirmed this.

So for example if you have 2 factory symbols spent in a state (and no deficit spending), that state gets 2 rolls to see if it builds a random factory in one its random cities. If the same city is chosen twice, then possibly 2 factories can be built in one city that turn if both random rolls create a factory. But usually two different cities will be chosen and they will each get a random factory if both rolls are made.

Jim

[Spruce]

I've made similar remarks a few weeks ago ... this is very confusing for a new player !