xylo opened the ticket and wrote:

I would like to have an option in the settings allowing human players to overtake companies controlled by other human players by buying 100% of their shares. I suggest, that, if a company is overtaken its players are informed about the company fusion and asked (via a popup window) if they either want to continue playing in the merged company and agree not to demolish the company as a kind of revenge or if they prefer to leave the company and spectate. If they agree, they become players of the merged company with equal rights. Of course, one could also think about limiting the rights, e.g. limiting the money a player may spent within a month or disallowing the demolish tool for him, but I'm not sure about the positive effect of those limitations. In the end I think, it's more likely that overtaken players will continue playing in good intentions if they have exactly the same right as the "company owner" (if such a person exists). I'm pretty optimistic that this feature will make the gameplay even more interesting and that overtaken players will usually like to continue playing in the merged company and will not take revenge.

Reported version: 1.0.5
Operating system: All

This issue was imported from FlySpray: https://bugs.openttd.org/task/4572