Acquire Companies Facing Bankruptcy
With the Acquire Companies Facing Bankruptcy setting enabled, a company on the brink of bankruptcy can be rescued — by you, buying all of its shares.
Distressed companies are cheap, and some of them are worth more to you than to anyone else — a technology that complements your own, for instance, at a fraction of what it would cost to develop.
Turning it on
It is a new-game setting.
When a company starts to fail
The offer appears
A window asks whether you are interested in acquiring the failing company.
Say yes to buy time
Click [Yes] and the game pauses, so you can evaluate the company without the clock running.
Acquire it
If it looks like an opportunity, open the company’s Corporate Details screen and click [Acquire Company].
