u/Top_Row_5116

Whenever I feel like I understand this games economy system, I get thrown a curveball. So here is my question. Its late 1800s and I'm at 1000+ construction building a lot of buildings meant to produce goods that are expensive in my market. However when I check the state after the building is built, it doesn't actually hire people from time to time so the building remains unprofitable. And Im trying to build in the states that have the highest productivity in the state building tab so what's the issue?

What checklist can I go down for buildings to figure out why they aren't profitable?

Hello y'all!

I work the night shift at my hotel and something very strange just happened that I need to note down cause its makin me second guess myself hard. These guests booked a reservation with us over the phone and then showed up about an hour later.

I did the normal process of checking their id and ask for a card cause they didn't present it. They asked if they could pay with tap to pay which I said they couldn't cause I needed the card in house physically for ya know fraud purposes and all. They then pulled the card out to show me but still told me they needed to use tap to pay which this might've been my mistake in the whole exchange where I looked at the card, cross matched its details on tap to pay and saw it was matching so I said sure they could do that.

I handed the card back to the guest as he left to go outside and another used tap to pay and when it showed up on our systems, I noticed the last few numbers on the card was different from the card I viewed earlier. I told the guests I needed to see the card again and they started getting very defensive about it saying they didn't have the card and when I asked the individual who i gave the card to, they said they put it back in their car (they had gone outside after I handed them back their id and card). Though I feel like I did see them pull out the card when they were trying to show me their id again but it could've just been a similar card. Then they turned it back around on me and started getting angry at me for wasting their time when they were tired and that they paid for the room but wont be able to get into it, which whatever I don't really care I've had that same thing be used on me before, doesn't work.

Eventually one of them relented and said they'd pay with cash which they did and they went onto their room. It set off major major major red flags to me but technically they didn't do anything wrong so its not like I can tell them to turn around and leave though I wish I could. Also I just got back from a short vacation so I do need to get back into the grove of things which is my excuse for letting the tap to pay thing by.

The one thing I know for certain is that the card they showed me is not the same card they tapped with. I'm 90% sure nothing will come of it cause I've had more nerve-racking things happen at the hotel and nothing came out of them but ya never know

I know there used to be strategies of getting him deposed quickly but Paradox removed them all cause who wants to have fun am I right.

Its seems like with the new update, the civil war for the USA is near impossible to win. However I did win it once because I had somehow gotten the Pro-Slavery revolt to be only like north and south carolina, gerogia, tennasse, and alabama or something like that so maybe half the states it normally gets. How do you do that though? I can't seem to replicate it. How do you get the succession to lose states?

This question came to me because I work at a hotel in the Midwest and often have guests come in and tell me they are moving from Massachusetts to Colorado for example and that is mind-blowing to me because you could probably draw a circle with a 80-100 mile radius and cover everywhere I've ever lived in my life. In fact I'm only about an hour or so drive away from the hospital I was born in. I couldn't imagine moving multiple states away but it seems like a somewhat common occurrence at least from the people I've met.

I'd say for myself, the furthest I've moved was an hour away from where I'd previously lived. Which compared to the side of the USA, isnt that much. But how about you? What is the furthest you've ever moved?

Just had a homeless person come in for the first time in several months actually and I handled it best I could but it got me thinking about how other people do it.

Basically what just happened was a homeless woman walked into the hotel during my shift tonight and immediately went to get coffee from our coffee bar right by the entrance. Thinking back to this know, it might not be the first time she's done this since she knew right where it was. Its hotel policy and standard security during the night to ask people if they are guests in the hotel and she says she was so I ask her a few more questions and can definitely determine she is not a guest. I tell her she has to leave and she is being trespassed and if she comes back she will be arrested and she gives me the dumbest smile for walking away free with no more than 40 cents worth of coffee and creamer. I mean I think I handled that as well as I could. Can't do much about the coffee aside from jumping over the front desk and taking it out of her hands which I'm not gonna do. Just got me thinking. How is it different from other hotels though. Do yall immediately kick out anyone who looks homeless or is it yalls hotel policy to also confirm if they are a guest.

^(I wanna end this by saying I'm sympathetic towards homeless people. Its difficult being homeless and im sure feels near impossible to get out of. But my managers are very hardline about homeless people which I also understand.)