v2.5.0.2 - Acquisitions - Something wrong when buying a company with marques

[Elouda]

Just had this happen in my current game - Apeson was for sale for a pittance, but they also own Bellesez and Eisenwork as marques - both of which cost significantly more (100 million plus) to acquire. Apeson itself is far less - 32k.

Upon acquisition, what I am assuming was the liquid capital in the marques is transferred to me, kicking my cash up by over 200 million.

The price of subsidiary marques should be included in the purchase price of failing companies to avoid this situation. This would present the choice of buying the failing parent (and its marques) for a larger sum, or picking off the marques for a lower sum (and I assume if no one does this and they are valuable, they may be spun off if the parent dies).

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[Eric.B]

This is a general problem with the game, the values of the subsidiaries are significantly marked up to prevent users from poaching subsidiaries via the stock market. While the parent companies values are calculated via the stock market system.

It's a damned if I do, damned if I don't situation.

[Elouda]

I think the issue would mostly be solved by adding the cost of any marques to the purchase price of the parent if you try to acquire it. A more refined option (feature bounty?) could be to have a menu to choose to buy only the parent and spin the marques off or let others buy them.

Edit: Okay, it seems as if either the parent or one of the marques had 300 million in debt which I somehow overlooked... this may prove interesting.