Partnership, Part continuation Loosing stats on purchase of a building

[baz]

Partnership
Is there away of creating a partnership or at least having a partnership that gives you 6 months minimum before they don't supply or won't accept your supply?
One of the issues i've found is that when you decide to either buy or sell to the Ai, you go into a price protect partnership, but this can be broken very easily by the AI.
For example I will sell sugar, I now have a buyer and we form a partnership. yes they could open there own farm and swap which is what they will do but there should be at least a message that the break will happen and so you would have at least some time to work out your next strategy. 6 months minimum, It would aid the Semi Industry a lot.

Part continuation
The other thing I would like to see if possible is that if I bought say a car factory off the AI, I should have an option to keep using there parts.
For example I've just bought a car plant off Audi, I will make my own body but I want to continue to use there engines, at least till my own is developed.
My reasoning behind this is. land Rover where owned by BMW and Ford, land Rover sold these vehicles the day after they were sold and still do, but they still have to use lots of components and engines from the previous manufacturer and they still do. Land rover did build a new engine but that went into the New Tata L/R vehicles and is slowly been implemented into the rest of the product but this has taken 5 years or effectively the life of the vehicle to implement.
Land Rover today are still in partnership with BMW and will be using this tech in there latest electric cars, However the ford plant that was building engines for L/R will be closing, But Ineos are buying that plant for there new defender.

Loosing stats on a new purchased building
When I take over a company everything resets and you loose the quality and everything the the plant had under the previous owner, which shouldn't occur as you are paying for the work force and building, and with you retaining the work force you should keep the quality. I would understand if it had been bankrupt then sold, or the line had ceased and the company moth balled the factory before selling.

[MightyGooga]

The 3 concepts mentioned above are really agreable. I mean, tehre are some details that could be added, if possible, to will increment the game. If I could I would go even further and and start giving traits to characters so we can evaluate if thei are likely to breake contract. Also, for B2B operations there shoul dbe a contract option that can guarantee you a certain supply for a pre defined time. We coul deven have a price variation if you can commit to a bigger volume, and you could have fines for breaching the contract.

[baz]

Cheers for the post Miggy,

B2B forgot that one jargon. yeah I agree, B2B could be used in other ways, not just for contracts, Could be used along side my data feeds post. Contracted data feed allowance or something ie an agreed amount of space in a data center (another post) for use, or guarantee the amount of subscribers, or commercial broadband contract, guaranteeing telecoms can use a data center for example (another post).
I like the idea of contractual relationships, could have agreed supply of coal for example. It would make Apple work well in the game as they would have a long term B2B with the company that makes the phones in china for example. Amazon may become possible, I know they have end users but a lot is B2B, considering there business model.

[David]

Loosing stats on a new purchased building
When I take over a company everything resets and you loose the quality and everything the the plant had under the previous owner, which shouldn't occur as you are paying for the work force and building, and with you retaining the work force you should keep the quality. I would understand if it had been bankrupt then sold, or the line had ceased and the company moth balled the factory before selling.

Would you please describe in detail which types of stats are lost when you take over a company?

[baz]

Hi David,

If I buy a complete company via stock exchange then there is no issue. It is usually around when you want to buy a Building ( Company ) that says produces engines. When I buy it it just returns to a building. If I wanted the building only then it works, If I want to buy for example an engine company then it doesn't. I know that you have to have the r&d etc but it would be nice to be able to buy buildings ( companies ) that still function as they did prior to you buying, with all of the units at least keeping there stat, And keeping the supply chain unless it's internal sales from the other company which then makes sense.