Generally transit services are never run at a profit because of the socially positive externalities of reduced congestion, ghg emissions and social mobility. There are a few profitable routes that are highly trafficked and these are used to cross-subsidize less trafficked routes in rural areas or generally just areas people need to get to because of employment, etc. This indirectly reduces costs on employers.
Government usually only takes over services or utilities that are natural monopolies and therefore whose demand is incredibly inelastic. Someone isn’t going to stop paying their energy bill because it is now in government hands. People are not going to stop using cellphones. People aren’t going to stop going to the bank. The inelasticity of demand of these services generally indicate how essential they are to daily life and eliminating the private price gouging this facilitates is part of the rationale of government intervention in the first place.
But you’re right, like tax revenues, state ownership revenues should also scale upwards or downwards with population/GDP, as with their costs given the the volume of exchanging the good or service for money rises and declines.
I do see the post office on the list for state runs services as well, I would die happy if you included banks as well. Which would definitely help later on when you make China a playable country.
Well… we do sort of think we might put china in at some point. In theory, its a democracy… but with only one party
But ignoring the reality for a moment, wouldnt it be interesting to try and run china as a democracy? HUGE population, HUGE manufacturing base, a big cultural bias towards education, a starting scenario with massive state surveilance… could be interesting.
On the other hand, not sure we want to upset the chinese state…
But yes, state owned banks should maybe be a thing.
Maybe nationalised sectors would make money like Satellite Road Pricing does, and it just reads the value of how often something is used?
Transport is obvious
Electricity and telecoms could read your technology value
Water would depend on population
and I can’t remember if there are others.
I don’t think it should be possible to make an exponential profit like the Socialist Reform mod from Democracy 3, but it’d be nice for them to break even. It’s tough to balance a utopian budget!
Update is now live with version 1.05. State owned enterprises can now run at a profit if you put the slider all the way down. Don’t expect everyone to be happy about it though, as this means fewer staff, less investment, and a poorer service :D.
Was that after ticking the box to install the visual c++ redistributable thing? most people wont need that, and as I recall its only the 64 bit version anyway. Or did you not tick that?
when you get to install this version, at the end of the install it should show you this(see below) does it get that far? when is this error message happening?
Note that you can untick the first checkbox harmlessly if the game has ever run for you before.
