Re: [Rails-devel] PublicCompany_1856

[Mark S. <mar...@gm...>]

I happen to have 1856 Rulebook at hand and I see a few items just to
clarify the points brought up:

STARTING CAPITALIZATION (Page 13)
1. If the President Certificate bought BEFORE a 5 Train is available,
company receives  cash for each of the first five (5) shares sold. If
shares after the fifth is sold, the extra cash goes into escrow.
2. If the President Certificate bought when a 5 Train is available,
cash for each share sold goes to company (no escrow)
3. If the President Certificate bought when a 6 or Diesel is
available, cash for all 10 shares goes to company

INITIAL SHARES NEEDED TO OPERATE (Page 14)
# of Shares sold equal to or greater than the number of current train
type available. This is determined at the time when the company "may
be able to operate", not based upon when the President's certificate
is bought.
EXAMPLE: If a 2 train available, only the President share needed, if a
3 train available, 3 shares must be sold.

The rules have a very clear example of when this odd situation occurs.

There is no concept of "floating" a company like in the other games.

What may also be necessary for this 1856 subclass is a count of the
number of loans the company has out.

Mark

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
> It is interesting that, just having had a discussion about Company types,
> I'm for the first time hitting the need for a game-specific company
> subclass. 1856 public companies need (at least) two per-company attributes
> that, I believe, are unique to this game and should not be included in the
> generic PublicCompany class:
>
> - the next available train from the bank when the presidency was bought
> (which determines the company capitalization rules at floating time and
> later), and
>
> - the amount of treasury money held in escrow by the bank in some cases.
>
> So I think I'm going to create a subclass PublicCompany_1856 to hold these
> values.
>
> The destination hex and the destination-reached condition are common enough
> to be put into PublicCompany itself (the hex has in fact always been there).
> Setting destination-reached will be a menu action, for the time being.
>
> Comments?
>
> Erik
>
>
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