Hi,

When I decided to privatize my island's industries I noticed that after privatization issued all factories, oil wells, mines, and logging camps were privatized but not farms as it is described in Absolute Power expansion manual.

But that's not everything - after a couple of years after privatization I noticed that now private factories are not serviced by teamsters, so their output stock is counted in thousands and does not decrease, after some short period of time input stock is 0, and factories stopped paying me rent, so i had $0 profits from industry, mining and logging. However farms was selling all their products like caffe by docks; maybe thats why because they was still in government hands. Situation was persistent by almost 10 years.

My system specs if necessary :
AMD Phenom II X4 940
Asus M3A78 mainboard
4 GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD 4650 512 MB

Windows 7 Home Premium

DirectX 9.0c up to date and Direct X11 too.

Tropico 3 + newest patch + AP expansion - all purchased at Direct2drive.com

Thanks !

(17-05-2010 09:50 AM)flux Wrote:  Hi,

When I decided to privatize my island's industries I noticed that after privatization issued all factories, oil wells, mines, and logging camps were privatized but not farms as it is described in Absolute Power expansion manual.

But that's not everything - after a couple of years after privatization I noticed that now private factories are not serviced by teamsters, so their output stock is counted in thousands and does not decrease, after some short period of time input stock is 0, and factories stopped paying me rent, so i had $0 profits from industry, mining and logging. However farms was selling all their products like caffe by docks; maybe thats why because they was still in government hands. Situation was persistent by almost 10 years.

My system specs if necessary :
AMD Phenom II X4 940
Asus M3A78 mainboard
4 GB DDR2 RAM
Radeon HD 4650 512 MB

Windows 7 Home Premium

DirectX 9.0c up to date and Direct X11 too.

Tropico 3 + newest patch + AP expansion - all purchased at Direct2drive.com

Thanks !

I believe the farms were left out intentionally to avoid issues with food supply (so I think here the manual is just wrong/outdated)

However I can confrim the other issue with teamsters. Very annoying.

Plus that this edict should be either permanent (so every new built building becomes private as well) or repeatable as soon as there is again a building which can become private.

(17-05-2010 06:26 PM)Rebel-Yell Wrote:  However I can confrim the other issue with teamsters. Very annoying.

Yes, it is annoyning - it makes privatization useless

(17-05-2010 06:26 PM)Rebel-Yell Wrote:  Plus that this edict should be either permanent (so every new built building becomes private as well) or repeatable as soon as there is again a building which can become private.

I agree with that. I would prefer if it is repeatable. So I could after privatization of some goverment industries privatize new ones when I build them , if I want this.

are you saying if you have a factory its now privatized but if you build a new one a year later that new building is not private? if so then YEA that needs to be fixed!

The edict seems to work as intended - it is a one-off event which privatizes all of your industrial buildings (farms excluded). You should receive annual rent from these buildings (if you have a save where private buildings do not give out rent, send it to lyubo at haemimontgames dot com, or the kalyspo support email). Buildings constructed after the privatization edict has been activated are NOT meant to become private.

The only problems we found regarding private buildings are connected to the interface and they will be resolved when possible.

I'll prepare and send to You savegames, thanks for answer.

EDIT :
OK e-mail sent.
One more thing - on tooltip factories generate income, but in economy tab in almanach in couple of years after priatization I have 0$ income from factories, and as I wrote earlier there is nothig transported in and out of private now factories. Also there is crossed out bag over this factories all the time.

We spotted some minor issues with privatization that are related to the interface. The rents from private buildings even if they are industry buildings is not counted in the income from industry. Nevertheless, they still give you rent, so you should not worry.

As for the transport - that is intended behavior. Your teamsters will not service private buildings.

(19-05-2010 12:39 PM)Lyubo_Haemimont Wrote:  The edict seems to work as intended - it is a one-off event which privatizes all of your industrial buildings (farms excluded). You should receive annual rent from these buildings (if you have a save where private buildings do not give out rent, send it to lyubo at haemimontgames dot com, or the kalyspo support email). Buildings constructed after the privatization edict has been activated are NOT meant to become private.

The only problems we found regarding private buildings are connected to the interface and they will be resolved when possible.

Is there a special reason why it is one-time only?

Also, if everything I get out of privatisized buildings is a fixed annual rent - what is then the 10% of the profits the manual talks of? Is it also meant to be one time only and how is it calculated then? Because it the moment you privatizise there are yet no private profits...

And finally...how do private buildings set their wages? So far in all my games is it 10$ for the uneducated jobs and 20$ in the factories - does that somehow change over time (e.g. according to the carribean average wage)?