Anyone know why?
I'm assuming you already know that it starts showing up when someone has 50% of the cash necessary to buy you out, right?
Could you be more specific?
So, I've just started playing and came across this problem, not that it didnt show the percentage because it did. But rather i didn't understand what it meant. I not dont understand how it is possible to buy out a company with much higher cash reserves than you. Can you please explain this?
The opposition had about $3,500K in cash but $1,500K (x5) in debt (so i assume $7,500K debt) the company was worth -$2,000K. I owned 90% of their company, and 100% of mine. their value was $0.10 and I think mine topped out at $200 per share. I had about $30,000K cash and more in resources.
So i though the 83% shown was the game saying they were in too much debt and were going bankrupt, not that they were going to buy my company out! Are cash reserves not linked to company value?
Also an unrelated question, do goon squads disappear after successfully stopping an attack? And if an enemy EMP is dropped near a protected square the square still gets frozen, it only stops the EMP is the EMP is placed directly on it?
Thanks for your help!
The "83%" means that they have 83% of the cash needed to buy you out. (I believe the popup help on the percentage states that?)
If you owned all buy one of their shares, and they had a $0.10 stock price, I assume you could buy them out, correct?
thanks.
Yes I could have bought their entire company for $1 so 30million times over. My point is how are they allowed to just build debt and get 4million to buy me out while they have 7.5 million in debt. Also my main question is: is you cash separate from your company and its stock price or would the enemy company have gotten my $30mil when they bought my company?
Sometimes it doesn't show. Yesterday I had two cases where it didn't show that I could be bought out, not even the 50% and from one second to another the company was bought. The main issue I faced here was that I had 400k of savings which I could have used to pay back the depth (increase the company market value) and to buy shares from the competition instead of waiting for a full buyout which would have happened ~30 seconds later.
I guess the way I've always looked at it is that they are only "allowed" to build up that much debt if other players buy them out. Certainly in MP, a player with a sub-$1 stock price is going to disappear very quickly.
Having said that, in Beta 4, there are a number of extra penalties for carrying too much debt.
I am pretty sure that both the debt and cash is wiped out.
I don't know how the price is calculated, but debt really hurts in beta 4 now.
Also, if you buy another player's shares, it will be better than holding cash, because it seems your share value is calculated as market value, and the more shares are owned the more valuable they all are. This means you could spend maybe 500k in shares to increase your networth by $1m.
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