I have had the same experiences, I found the cause to be retail focused AI purchasing or selling vast amounts of land.jared_allister1 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2019 1:56 am The boom/bust cycle is insane and super unrealistic. The highs are too high, and the lows are too low. There is nothing I can do to fend off a recession, no matter how much money my governments pump into the economy. The economy will experience a boom cycle, where the economy is literally booming, experience 30%-50% gains, only to experience depression of 20%-50% decline in economic output in a couple of years, and repeat. It does this regardless of how much money my government invest in education. This usually leads to a number of AI companies going bankrupt and lower profit for my companies. I am on V6.1.03 with the Realword Mod v11.34.
Savegame: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k2Hsv ... KNTm3ibcQw
You can either counteract the real estate AI, for example if the sell $3B, you buy enough land to bring GDP growth up to stop a recession/depression. You can sell said land when the AI purchases land.
Do this on Dec 31st of every year, it’s annoying I know, but it works and you can use it to keep growth steady.
Obviously this can also be used to your advantage, you can cause a boom or bust any time you choose with this strategy, all with a quick glance at the cities figures.
You can really manipulate an economy as it will never get large enough to cope with the AI purchases and sales, even with max competitors and cities (that itself is a bad idea, the game will see massive slow downs after a couple of years)
The other option is to turn off real estate focused AI within a script.
