Engine Parts / Advanced Electronics factories run out of credits

[ezra-r]

Before I go deep and maybe report.

Do your engine parts / advanced electronics factories run out of credits too? Mine seem to just always go down instead of generate credits.

Is this known? any of you know about this? is it just me?

[Ezarkal]

No
But I usually build full (or nearly full) supply chains within my factories, so this answer is pretty much irrelevant to you.

-Compare the cost at which it buys the wares and the costs at which it sells
-Check how much storage is dedicated to the end product. Your station may be in the process of filling to certain threshold where it drops its prices a bit and become competitive. If that's the issue, then it will stabilise over time. I tend to avoid too much storage on stations I use to generate income for that reason.

[Pesanur]

Mine are giving me profits.

How you set the factories? You have set the factories to no buy raw materials from other factions? Buying raw materialsss isss the main reassson of losssing profitssss.

[Imperial Good]

The factories require workforce to make most of their profit. X4 industry is balanced around workforce so without 100% fulfilled workforce the modules will be highly prone to losing money.

[Raevyan]

Well I noticed that too with my stations. I think it is because of my wharf that is consuming those wares in high quantities. I think if your traders from other stations or your stations trader do a trade with one of your stations, no money is transferred.

Dunno if I remember that correctly but there was a dev response on the own traders trade with player faction topic somewhere.

[Imperial Good]

Well I noticed that too with my stations. I think it is because of my wharf that is consuming those wares in high quantities. I think if your traders from other stations or your stations trader do a trade with one of your stations, no money is transferred.

That is correct. Internal trades do not move money around. Why this behaviour is the intended behaviour I am not sure as it does make book keeping problematic. However it also does solve the money collection problem of XR where low down industries would end up with all the profit and never pay it to the player automatically.

If you use the product of a factory internally, the solution is to also produce the raw materials internally. This creates a net money flow of 0.

[ezra-r]

Thanks for your answers guys! Much appreciated.

It seems to me that I hit both cases, near owned Wharf/Shipyard station and I tend to build factories with LAAAARGE cargo hold

Thanks!!