Maybe you need to spend more like Keynes would say.

Perhaps, but that's the thing; I've tried a variety of policies, including Keynsism, Slavery, Monetisation, and so on. None of them seem to make a difference. That's why I find it so odd; these depressions seem inevetable, largely due to "poor global conditions". My best guess is that the AI sucks at managing their economy and it drags me down with them.

I've just begun saying "to heck with it" and opting to raise taxes and ignore the depression; it means I'm still losing money to the Econ mod, but unless I figure out what I'm doing wrong, that's the best I can do. Makes for an interesting Marathon game, I'll tell you that; I'm the richest Civ on the map, and I can barely keep my head above water! :p Most of the other civs are losing 30-60 gold per turn. Silly billies should've nursed their economy better. :p

There are two types of Depressions: National and Global. Global depressions are, as you say above, triggered by a weak global economy. There's not much you can do about those other than promoting good relations, reducing warmongering, and increasing global trade. These periodic downturns are the price of capitalism, as we all know too well.

Aaah, that makes sense. I have noticed a few depressions because of "poor planning", which I assume are the national ones; usually it's the world economy, though. Guess I'll just have to do what I can to stabilize the world... e_e BY CONQUERING MORE THAN HALF OF IT. Take THAT, inprudent leaders!

Thanks for the quick response, FramedArc. :) I appreciate it.

just take everyone over and fix their economies for them

Yeah I'd imagine that because the bots suck at managing economies and cities, you're gonna be in perpetual global depression.

Try the Artificial Unintelligence Mod. Should help.

Here's the link: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=312060464

its just the economic cycle. as long as you have an average growth rate across time, its fine.

@Shaddap Hm. I tried it, and it reduces the frequency of depressions but doesn't seem to stop them. (They now occur every ~15 turns instead of ~7.) Still, that's a step in the right direction!

@Meadman I feel like you misunderstood my post. Small recessions and stagnations are part of the economic cycle. Dramatic depressions are supposed to be noteworthy for their rarity, not for being ubiquitous. Major depression being the state roughly 10-50% of the time is an Issue. This is particularly true when it means that, 1100 turns in and regardless of action taken to try to rectify it, there is universally less income provided by the mod than supplied by it. To me, this suggests that the pitiable growth, which has consistently and stubbornly lagged behind government expenses, is flawed. (Note: This means there is a growing economy, but the *rate* at which it grows is lower than the rate at which the expenses grow. So I must respectfully disagree with your assertion.)

I can respect the need to nurture an economy in order to start seeing a profit, but my complaint is that regular depressions criplle the local economy and make it impossible to ever have positive cash flow from this mod. However, based on the lack of anyone else reporting similar issues, I'm guessing this is either a problem with mod interactions on my end, or else most others just use it for multiplayer where you can expect other players to protect their economies as well. Unlike the silly, silly AIs, it seems. Ah well, at least now I have a pretext for world domination; FOR THE ECONOMY! *charges*

Zombie thread: however I have noticed that heavily investing in infrastructure has the ability to stabilize the economy and for tax rates ~40% has no effect on the destabilization of the general economy.

And if they do a tutorial on the concepts and mechanisms that players have to take into account to play?