How to Buy & Sell Stock in Sid Meier's Railroads

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DIXON GILLETTE: Okay. So now, it's time to talk about how to buy and sell stock, which is actually how you're going to either win or lose the game. Now, the main way to buy and sell stock is by accessing your Competition Report or by pushing F2 on the keyboard. Now, here we can see all of our competitor's stock options that we have; and below, each competitor's window is a buy and sell option. Now, of course, you can't sell your competitor's stocks so those will be grayed out. Your stock, however, can be sold, and the current price is shown here, which is updated dynamically according to how much net worth your company is currently worth. So one thing that you want to keep in mind is when you buy your own stock that means it's going to be more expensive for your competitors to buy you out of the game in the long run. So you're going to always want to keep as much of your own stock on hand as possible. Because in order to buy you out, your competitors will have to pay two times the share price. Consequently, you will also have to pay two times the share price for all outstanding shares that your competitors do not own. So you're also going to want to buy as much stock of your competitors as possible. Now, once you buy out all the stock and there's none available, you'll see a buyout number will appear and that buyout number is going to be the dollar figure that you're going to need to come up with in order to buy that competitor out. In the case of total victory or monopoly victory, you have to buy out each one of these competitors. Now, once you buy out a competitor, that competitor's assets become your assets. Now, as you can see here, as I'm continuing to buy out Jim Fisk's stock, his stock price is increasing, and that's because there is less availability that's driving up the demand, so it's making it more expensive. So as you can see here, his shares are now $602,000. Now, as you can see here, I bought all of his stock out and now I have a buyout price, and that's $2,415,000. And this number, like I said, is basically calculated on two times the share price, so each of these shares is worth 605, roughly 1.2 million. So times two is that buyout price. So as you can see, that's why you want to retain as much of your own stock as possible. So essentially, you can see I don't have the cash to buy them out right now, so I'll have to wait for a while and once I do, I can buy him out and then he is out of the game. So you're going to want to do that for each one of your competitors to win the game. Now, you can also buy and sell your stock from your Quick Access screen here. As you can see, we still have our same Buy and Sell buttons. And if we just expand each one of these competitor's windows, you can see that I own most of Jim Fisk's stock. I can also sell his stock and I can buy other people's stock as well. So that's our overview on how to buy and sell stock in Sid Meier's Railroads!

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