Company value at two dollars

[Eagle112]

Im playing multiplayer with my friend and several AIs. My company value rises, but they have over the time just 2 dollars as value. Even though the company has trains or trucks and even makes money, I can still buy it, if sharing is enabled, just for two dollars. Why does´nt the value grow?

[Voyager One]

Welcome to the forums!

Regarding your problem, a savegame would be helpful as there could be a million reasons for this. One that quickly crosses my mind is a large loan that you have that (IIRC) decreases company value (I'm not sure of this). Savegame please.

[planetmaker]

Welcome to the forums!

Regarding your problem, a savegame would be helpful as there could be a million reasons for this. One that quickly crosses my mind is a large loan that you have that (IIRC) decreases company value (I'm not sure of this). Savegame please.

Indeed. Company value is the sum of the value of all assets minus the liabilities (=loan).

[YNM]

I thought i have answered this before, somewhere : If the current money - loans is less or same than zero (..., -3, -2, -1, 0) then the company value will shows £1. And as the in game currency state 1£ = 2$, then it stays at 2$.

Hope it helps - and push you to start turnover !

(Oh yes : if you can pay all the loans, just pay it as much as you can, as that helps a lot unless you planning some construction...)

[Eagle112]

Thank you for the welcome and answers!

I thought about the loan, but did not remember this concept from the original TTD. I remembered that even with the loan, company value rises and if you buy it, the loan simply is your problem... Now i can just buy some good routes with 2 dollars basically... altough the loan will probably kill me later on.

[3iff]

If you buy a company for $2 and it has a loan of $500,000 then you inherit the loan, so beware.

[toolworx]

Yea snapping up that Bargain competitor turns out not to be such a bargain. LOL

[planetmaker]

Yea snapping up that Bargain competitor turns out not to be such a bargain. LOL

Hehe I've seen people buy a company which was bancrupted on purpose. And then they went bancrupt themselves due to the big liabilities which they bought (we often set ship running costs to astronomical values - beware if the company you buy has a ship somewhere )

[doktorhonig]

Why is there no such thing as a negative company value? My wild guess would be, that this can be used as a cheat to increase the maximum possible debt of the own company. But we could still display the actual value in brackets, but sell the company for 1 pound.

[YNM]

Why is there no such thing as a negative company value? My wild guess would be, that this can be used as a cheat to increase the maximum possible debt of the own company. But we could still display the actual value in brackets, but sell the company for 1 pound.

I thought that theres a lot of case for negative-valued company to be selled with £1 value... (or any other "small" amount of money...)

Showing the real value in brackets may be better, but maybe having the real value showed will destroy its market
(Wild guess as i never looked to those part IRL...)