"To avoid jobbery we have set the top limit of products price. The top limit depends on many factors, but the principal guideline is the indicative price(IP) (you can find IPs in the World map section).
For the goods of minimum quality the limit price cannot be higher than 30 IP, for the goods of the highest quality it cannot exceed 300 IP.
One of your prices is behind the limits. Changes for these positions have not been saved."
So I have a Cotton Mill produces heaps of Cotton fabric right now. But I'm not putting it on the market right now, because of the way the IP policy works. This is apparently something new since many people are selling the fabric for higher prices and lower quality then I try to do.
I put my price a while back when I was supplying my own factories and put it around the market price I could get from other people back then. It is set 'only to my company' . When I try to change the setting it gets the above message. I'm selling for 2650 now
I have tried lowering the price a bit ( yes I'm a saint ) to about 1000 but still this is not acceptable for the IP. Lower than that is not acceptable for me since there will be no profit for me then. So instead I take the 16 mil. loss a turn and probably will scale down production in the end, while the supply of fabric is next to zero, the cheapest one stands now at 4900 of a lower quality then I offer. I imagine many people produce the stuff just to use in company, distorting the market.
So in short IP distorts the market, prohibits me selling supplies for other factories, prevents players creating a healthy market based on competition and as such creates the outages players in the retail experience daily regarding clothes and such. I don't think this is the way to avoid 'jobbery'
tl;dr : communism! 
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