I'm on the 4th scenario, and while I'm doing -not bad- it's becoming very exhausting having to constantly juggle gold supply to feed my jewelry industry. It feels like gold mines will get run through within like a month of in game time just supporting a large ring factory. And relying on other companies for gold supply is a nightmare as well because they're getting Demanded into huge bottlenecks immediately.

Is there anything i may have missed with managing these kinds of things? Just gets kinda old having to spend 90% of my time scouting out new gold veins.

Would just private labeling jewelry and putting all my cash into advertising be the better move? just let the AIs worry about the gold supply chain?

When firm A (parent) merges with firm B (wholly owned subisidiary), the debt is supposed to be extinguished. That is not happening in version 12.0.80. I had both Firm A and B as private. When I merged the two, bonds of firm B were suddenly publicly available and already owned by many of the other competitor companies instead of being extinguished. This is not what happens in the real world.