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

[Erik V. <eri...@hc...>]

> 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.

Exactly, and the rules of both 1830 and 1835 completely fail to understand
that, when these state that "a home token once played cannot be moved". 
 
> 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.

That is how I have implemented it, but I'm having second thoughts about
that. In fact I had intended to let the president make the choice, but I
overlooked the possibility that another player might update such a OO or XX
hex to green. This is rather unlikely, though, so perhaps I'll leave it as
is. The rules are completely silent about this question.

> 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.

I would rule differently, but I don't know if there is any basis to settle
this dispute. Has there ever be a ruling on this matter?

Erik.