Bankruptcies while being bankrupted ?

[jaunty forge]

When you get bankrupt you lose 90% crown power and a lot of Estates loyalty, this makes you lose a lot of income which can put you in the red and then again you can get a bankrupt while bankrupted (???). Being bankrupted should put you at the lowest point possible, fair, but if it triggers a chain you can't get out off it makes absolutely no sense and just ruins saves

[long haven]

In my first playthrough I went through seven bankruptcies within 4 months or so.

[light haven]

this is definitely an issue, but 7 times in 4 months should not be possible as expenses are substracted only first day of each month, but yes, unfortunately game lets you bankrupt each months many months in succession without actually warning you that you'll be in red numbers budget-wise.

I also got bankrupted few months in a row after a random event took 10x more than I had in coffers. The following bankrupcies were a surprise as I was supposed to make money next month. Also I lost all my trading offices and many kontors built abroad, which took me about 10-15 years to build again.

[prisma grove]

I survived a bankruptcy as Holland (after hook and cod situation). Put all expenses to zero, start minting at max and invest as much as possible in stability. You need to give some privileges to the estates to upgrade there equilibrium, but that’s it. Definitely a major setback which takes 10-15 years to get economy back up and privileges takes way longer, but bankruptcy is not a game ending one

[keen veldt]

Yeah I feel like this speaks for itself

if you go bankrupt, you shouldn't go bankrupt again like 5 seconds after that 😭

That feels just pretty game ending

bankruptcy should be extremely penalizing but not permanent

[light haven]

at least you had the warning as the game showed you go into negative balance. Then you check how much money you can borrow, and if not enough, you make all efforts with balance sliders to make sure you are in budget surplus.

Also the game does not steal anything from you with further bankrupcies, only gives you severe penalties which do not stack. Also these are now withering away over the course of 10 years you have them, so another bankrupcy only renews them, which make sense. So I would say it is working fine, just looks weird.

My main issue was that game was showing me that my balance will be positive and ended up being negative and so I was surprised by the bankrupcy.

[long haven]

There is nothing that can be done with the economy as you saw in the video.

[light haven]

you can sill close some buildings to cut their cost.. and you still have 0,04 in economy. But that situation looks pretty dire from in the balance sheet..