I got a chance to look at the equity calculations. The parent company does take into account marque's equity. The only difference is that when you buy a spin off directly, some of the of it's assets are calculated at approximately 150% increased value. And the player is charged an extra 10 times to buy from the AI than it would be selling to an AI to prevent exploit features.
You said in your save, you got $300 Million in debt and $200 Million in cash. If the marque's cost you $100 Million each to buy, their actual value in the game is $10 Million. Which would account to about $4 Million stock equity each.
So while you got a $100 Million better deal than just buying the two marques outright, with how the game calculates the marque's values, you actually lost $80 Million to $92 Million in the deal.
Thus I don't think I have much to fix here. The prices of the marques are high to fix tactics players were using to break the game. We need more anti-exploitative fixes to the stock system to punish bad behavior, then I can make marque buy prices near equal to the prices used to calculate company equity.
This might be a good idea to add a bounty though for marque/company image. There isn't anything like that in the price calculations.
I also came up with another idea where the AI will bundle debt with the marque's. I could probably then lower the player penalty on the marque prices.
You said in your save, you got $300 Million in debt and $200 Million in cash. If the marque's cost you $100 Million each to buy, their actual value in the game is $10 Million. Which would account to about $4 Million stock equity each.
So while you got a $100 Million better deal than just buying the two marques outright, with how the game calculates the marque's values, you actually lost $80 Million to $92 Million in the deal.
Thus I don't think I have much to fix here. The prices of the marques are high to fix tactics players were using to break the game. We need more anti-exploitative fixes to the stock system to punish bad behavior, then I can make marque buy prices near equal to the prices used to calculate company equity.
This might be a good idea to add a bounty though for marque/company image. There isn't anything like that in the price calculations.
I also came up with another idea where the AI will bundle debt with the marque's. I could probably then lower the player penalty on the marque prices.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski