Share buying / island takeover and AI reaction to it

[Popex]

Wiki page about island takeovers ( https://anno1800.fandom.com/wiki/Island_takeover ) is blank for the moment and I'm looking for more information.

In my solo game I bought a few shares on AI islands before afking for an hour.
It seems the AI went full aggressive and bought all my islands shares after that resulting in my game defeat (thankfully I was able to load an earlier save).

Apparently the AI doesn't interfere in your islands shares if you don't buy theirs ?

[Popex]

On another game AI declared war to me after buying a share from their island even tough I had 80 reputation with them and my share buying only resulted to -2. Is share buying considered by AI as an hostile manoeuver resulting in a war ?

(apart from main subject : may be a coincidence but AI brought his awesome fleet in front of my harbor before declaring war, it's a really interesting behavior if it was intended)

[DrDeath]

well if you think of it if you buy enough shares in a company you technically own it .. so yes they might consider it as an attack so in the future i would just buy them out instead of buying 1 share or a few shares

[Popex]

I wanted to buy a few shares but letting them run it so I only get a part of their income without having to manage anything. I'm worried they don't have self sufficient islands and relying on trades I'm not able to provide at the moment.

[Manslayer]

If you take over an island they lose every single building. Currently, at least in my opinion, buying shares is useless as it takes forever to get your return on investment. For example you may buy a share for around 50k and only get 200 back per tick. If you do plan on taking shares do it through conquest. Attack them, take their harbor and rather than conquer the island take all their shares then instantly sell those shares to the queen, or hold onto them if you don't need the influence. You can do this every 30 minutes to their weakest island and get a lot of money.

Also buying shares will, depending on the Ai you buy it from, trigger negative relations. It is all tied to the AI itself.

[Venom Jesus]

Originally posted by Manslayer:

If you take over an island they lose every single building. Currently, at least in my opinion, buying shares is useless as it takes forever to get your return on investment. For example you may buy a share for around 50k and only get 200 back per tick. If you do plan on taking shares do it through conquest. Attack them, take their harbor and rather than conquer the island take all their shares then instantly sell those shares to the queen, or hold onto them if you don't need the influence. You can do this every 30 minutes to their weakest island and get a lot of money.

Also buying shares will, depending on the Ai you buy it from, trigger negative relations. It is all tied to the AI itself.

Nah, mate, you're not thinking this through. Think about how shares IRL work. People become shareholders not because of their measly monthly income, but because said income is bound to increase if the business is succesful

The game works the same way, with the exception that the AI will always be succesful, except in cases of war. So(under the assumption it's on their main island) you are buying a 50.000 share that in the future is probably going to be worth 500.000.

They actually pay for themselves rather quickly.

[Herr Kommissar]

I usually just declare war and take all their shares, thats if the AI has been a problem for me and refuse to trade.

[Cheatyx]

It depends on the difficulty, easy bots, just a reputation loss, even by takeover the island. harder ones declare war.

[Diminisher_qc]

teh fat lady decalred waer on me 5 mins after i bought one of her island