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Reply to Make buyouts less anti-climatic in Offworld Trading Company Stardock Forums

Thanks for you reply and feedback. My impression after playing this game for a few days is that the endgame is all about buying out the other players. In many games, the endgames are often an important and climatic event. In RTS games big armies clash together. In RPG games you have big boss fights. Endgames are all about winning or lossing and I wouldn't mind some complexity in that regard.

Make buyouts less anti-climatic in Offworld Trading Company Stardock Forums

When you own all our own shares, being bought out is really anti-climatic. No advance warning is received and you do not know how close the other players are to buying you out. The game just ends abruptly. In the real world, buy outs are announced to the board of directors ahead of time and a grace period is often implemented to allow the government to evaluate the impact of the company merger. The CEO is not fired at the moment a buyout bid is announced. Often the bid are ann