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The current rewrite of an (un)surprisingly delicate section:

Mergers occur:

  • when a company connects to another active company’s home station

or:

  • when a secondary company floats and its home station is already connected by track

For mergers caused by connecting to another company’s home station, one of the two companies will acquire the other (active player chooses):

  1. The acquired company pays a Special Dividend (see Dividends)

  2. All route markers on the board from the acquired company are replaced with route markers from the acquiring company

  3. Each player’s shares in the acquired company are replaced 1:1 with merger shares from the new parent company.

  4. All shares and route markers from the acquired company are discarded from the game

  5. The acquired company’s income is added to the acquiring company’s income, and the acquired company’s marker is removed from the income track

When a secondary company floats and its home station is already connected by track, all connected companies are acquired by the new secondary company:

  1. Any route markers on the board for the acquired companies are replaced with route markers from the new secondary company

  2. All shares and route markers from the acquired companies are discarded from the game

  3. Each player’s shares in the acquired companies are replaced 1:1 with merger shares from the new secondary company

  4. The resulting merged company pays a Special Dividend (see Dividends)

After the merger the active player must capitalise a share of a non-operating company in the normal manner with a minimum bid of £5. If all companies are already operating, then the player may auction any share in the bank pool or one of his own shares in the normal manner. If all companies have floated and there are no shares left in the bank pool, then the player must auction one of their own shares in the normal manner (see Capitalise).

If the auctioned share floats a company then proceed in the normal manner, including resolving any resulting mergers.

The bones are there, but it can still bear polish.

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