Hostile Takeover, must not have read the fine print..

[Brian Bóroimhe]

So I successfully completed my first hostile takeover war. Yay, go me. My cartel buddies didn't help one bit, and the enemy fleet turned out to be twice the size of mine, not slightly smaller as the half I saw lead me to believe, so it was a hard fought war to outmanoeuvre them and take them down.

Now having read this:
"Defeated empire cedes all Branch Offices. If part of a Federation Branch Offices on other members' planets are kept."
under the surrender effects listed for hostile takeover CB on the wiki (here), I was expecting to receive all of this megacorp's branch offices (a fair few) especially the ones he had on the worlds of my subsidiary. Instead I got one branch office from a world in a random friendly, but not allied, empire (I already had branch offices here if that's relevant).

Am I missing something? Was I meant to attack the branch offices directly instead of just the corporation's systems and planets? Is it maybe some sort of bug and the check to save branch offices in federated territory somehow saw my subsidiary as my enemy's ally?

Could anyone with more experience with hostile takeovers walk me through the fine print on how they work?

 

[Erik Kalkoken]

I am still figuring out how the hostile takeover works myself. However, it seams that you only takeover branch offices from empires you already have a commercial pact with.

So say your enemy corp has branch offices on empire A and empire B and you only have a commercial contract with empire A. After winning the war you will get the branch offices in empire A, but not in empire B.

Not sure how it works with subsidiaries, but since they are not independent and you can't make individual contracts with them I would guess you also can't have branch offices on subsidiaries. This kind of makes sense, since you are already getting a 25% of their total energy income.

 

[Typee]

I am still figuring out how the hostile takeover works myself. However, it seams that you only takeover branch offices from empires you already have a commercial pact with.

So say your enemy corp has branch offices on empire A and empire B and you only have a commercial contract with empire A. After winning the war you will get the branch offices in empire A, but not in empire B.

Not sure how it works with subsidiaries, but since they are not independent and you can't make individual contracts with them I would guess you also can't have branch offices on subsidiaries. This kind of makes sense, since you are already getting a 25% of their total energy income.

Makes sense. God damn it, the whole subsidiary part is so poorly thought out.

 

[Dustman]

You can build offices on subsidiary's hubs (unless they are corps themselves), that means you are considered to have commercial pact with them. Should've get these offices as well if requirement is commercial pact with empire.

 

[Brian Bóroimhe]

You can build offices on subsidiary's hubs (unless they are corps themselves), that means you are considered to have commercial pact with them. Should've get these offices as well if requirement is commercial pact with empire.

Yeah exactly, your subsidiaries are supposed to have an automatic commercial pact with you. This works fine for building branch offices etc. But in the patch version i was playing at the time (19th December) probably because there isn't an "actual" commercial pact, the hostile takeover wars were not counting those subsidiaries when doing the victory rewards. Fairly sure it was a bug or an oversight. Can't say whether this is now working properly now though as I haven't played a megacorp this side of new years.