Bankruptcy buyout price should be market-cap based when it is smaller than assets

[speeder]

So some interesting company was going bankrupt.

Market cap: 100 million.
Assets, mostly being tech: 600 million.

Why I can't just pay the 100 million? My choices are either pay 600 million, or try to manually buy the company shares until I have the majority... but this is risky, beause I saw the game delete companies even after I had control of them when done that way.

[anjali]

yeah unfortunately buyout when company go bust is asking full asset price, good if its a public company with way overrated share prices which probably never happens except on banks / bad if the shares are penny-stocks compared to assets

irl you pay a fraction of a bust company or wipe majority of debts on takeover. guess its some sort of preventing you to buy up the world for cheap

what you probably could do on a company like you described ... on the pop-up screen where you can get offered to buy out the company click on have a look / pause game ... then go and buy some techs of em just to make em liquid enough to keep em in game and start buy up the stocks if 50% of stocks are available ... company shouldnt go bust then as it has cash