Buyout button not appearing? (Resolved)

I just got done finishing the daily challenge today, and when watching the replay I noticed that the button for me to buyout my rivals sometimes didn't appear at all, and at others appeared at what seemed to be the wrong time/wrong funds accumulated.

I may be unfamiliar with the mechanic, and if I am it would be nice for someone to shine some light on it for me. I know once a rival owns 5K shares you have to purchase the last 5K at once to buy them out.

First, Silas Crichton was at a price of $27.75 per share, and I had ~350K, but the buyout button didn't appear. Upon pausing and 'SHIFT+Click'ing to Silas' perspective, I was listed at 100% potential to buyout his stock. Silas also didn't own all 10K shares - only about 5K or 6K, so why would I have to accumulate enough for 10K shares before being listed as 100%?

Secondly - a similar situation - Frank Dawson was listed at $34.27 per share, and I had $388K. The buyout button didn't appear and again when I paused and changed to Frank's perspective it showed I had 100% of the necessary funds. The buyout button did appear later when I had ~450K, and various other players owned some stock, but Frank didn't have more than 5K or 6K shares I'm sure. Would I/is it that I have to buy out other player's stock in Frank at *their* stock price in order to take over Frank? Also, it seems as though I am having to pay for 10K shares when I should only have to buy 5K or 6K at once.

Lastly, I was in a race with the final player standing (I had bought out everyone else as subsidiaries), Ilana Kamat. She had 5K of her shares, and I had 5K of her shares. Her stock price was ~$86.00 per share. The buyout button didn't appear until I had reached 877K. This seems particularly strange, as it almost feels like I was paying for the 5K shares she owned, but also again for the 5K shares I already owned and had previously paid for.

Also of note: I was playing on an older computer today, and the framerate and UI interactions were chugging along somewhat, so I don't know whether that would have affected the above situation.

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So, for buyouts, your playing double the price of a share for every share the person your trying to buyout owns, ocne they can no longer be majority bought out. So if you have 5 shares and your opponent has 5 shares, you have to buy 10 shares worth of stock not 5, because each of their shares count as double. I assume that is what is happening here. It makes sense because otherwise what woudl be the point in buying more than 5 shares into yourself? That might need to be made clearer in a tutorial or something. It was very obvious back with previous buyout systems, but with the current one maybe not so much...

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Thanks for pointing this out duelking. The 'Win as Robotic' tutorial is the one that is supposed to show you how to buy out an opponent and I assume give the detailed information surrounding buyouts.

The part about paying double for the player's shares in order to buy them out doesn't pop up at the beginning of the tutorial unless you hold SHIFT and hover over the buy shares button.

Like you said, the tutorial should make this clearer.

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