Re: [Rails-devel] Settong Erie home base during green upgrade

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

Mark Smith wrote:
> Is there any 18xx Game that allows one company to place multiple
> Tokens/Stations on the same Hex? If so, there will need some more
> updates to accommodate.

In 1837 this situation can exist in Vienna or Budapest as a result of
minor companies merging into the national railroads.  When each of those
cities is upgraded to brown, the separate stations with duplicate tokens
merge into one station and only one token is retained.

> Also still see the ability for a Token to be placed on a hex that has
> "no tile" placed on it. Still the background color.

This relates to Eric's "bug fix" at the start of this thread.

I believe that when it's time to place a company's home token on the
board (at the start of its first operating turn in most games, but in
the stock round in 1835), the token is placed immediately even if there
is no tile and no track in the hex.  In the case of the Erie or Badische,
if there is no tile, then there is no need to ask the company owner where
the token goes, since the two unconnected station circles in that hex are
indistinguishable.

But when one of those hexes -- or any OO, XX, or similar hex that
already has at least one token -- gets a tile laid on it, THEN whoever
lays the tile (NOT necessarily the company owner!) should be prompted to
choose which station gets which token.

I have always played that if these companies have no home tile and don't
bother to lay it on their first turn, they give up their right to make
this choice.