Your last buyout could have given him the cash to buy you. Remember you give them 2x the stock value to buy it from them...
Smores182
What about making black market based off of both how many bought total and personal. What about this for the formula. (Original cost based of difficulty)*(number bought personally)^(1+(.2* number of total bm items bought globally). That way everyone gets the first of each type for cheap and then goes up exponentially. This would also limit the first claim snowball effect that we see now. This is a good come from behind type change as those who have used the bm until endgame can punish t
I wish when you buy someone out you got their patents as that is sometimes a huge reason why real life companies do hostile takeovers. Maybe when you buy someone out an option of what patents you wish to apply to your business. (A one time thing)