03-20-2024, 01:58 AM
I noticed this while considering acquiring Oldsmobile tonight. If a single-marque company goes bankrupt, it ceases to show up in the Prestige/Image report. However, if a marque is acquired by another company, and then that acquiring company goes bankrupt, then only the acquirer's original marque is removed from Prestige/Image, and not any child marques it has acquired.
My guess is the report excludes any marques with an active status of -1, and since these acquired-but-parent-bankrupt marques have a status of 0 (acquired), they still show up. I'm distinguishing acquired from acquired-but-now-bankrupt in my Executive Secretary utility by doing a lookup on the parent company for all companies that show as 0 (acquired).
Confirmed in both 2.0.3.1 and 2.0.0.6 (200000060). Admittedly I've been playing setups that are ultra-violent nightmares for survivability, resulting in more bankruptcies, so I'm more likely to notice this, and I had not noticed it when considering acquiring marques in that 2.0.0.6 save.
Sample save: BM-2.3.0.0.zip , with sites files here. Abla was acquired by now-bankrupt Clyde, but still shows up in the list. Whereas Aboot-Detroit simply went bankrupt and does not appear in it.
(I also realize this is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things; the positive feedback to previous reports has encouraged my natural software testing tendencies)
Side question, can a company's active status ever be -2? I know -3 is "not yet founded", -1 is "bankrupt", 0 is "acquired", and 1 is "active". At one point I'd guessed -2 was "discontinued", but that is "-1" with a parent company that isn't bankrupt, and I've yet to find a -2.
My guess is the report excludes any marques with an active status of -1, and since these acquired-but-parent-bankrupt marques have a status of 0 (acquired), they still show up. I'm distinguishing acquired from acquired-but-now-bankrupt in my Executive Secretary utility by doing a lookup on the parent company for all companies that show as 0 (acquired).
Confirmed in both 2.0.3.1 and 2.0.0.6 (200000060). Admittedly I've been playing setups that are ultra-violent nightmares for survivability, resulting in more bankruptcies, so I'm more likely to notice this, and I had not noticed it when considering acquiring marques in that 2.0.0.6 save.
Sample save: BM-2.3.0.0.zip , with sites files here. Abla was acquired by now-bankrupt Clyde, but still shows up in the list. Whereas Aboot-Detroit simply went bankrupt and does not appear in it.
(I also realize this is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things; the positive feedback to previous reports has encouraged my natural software testing tendencies)
Side question, can a company's active status ever be -2? I know -3 is "not yet founded", -1 is "bankrupt", 0 is "acquired", and 1 is "active". At one point I'd guessed -2 was "discontinued", but that is "-1" with a parent company that isn't bankrupt, and I've yet to find a -2.
