Re: [Rails-devel] Fixes

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On 7/6/06, John A. Tamplin <ja...@ja...> wrote:
> brett lentz wrote:
>
> >On 7/6/06, Erik Vos <eri...@hc...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have (hopefully) fixed the reported (and some more) bugs
> >>regarding share buying/selling and certificate counting.
> >>
> >>This includes a problem I found, that if 3 players have
> >>each 20% of a company, with 40% in the Pool, the
> >>presidency could not be sold.
> >>
> >In this situation, my understanding of the rules is that you can't
> >sell the presidency, especially because there's no clear benefactor to
> >receive the presidency.
> >
> >
> I don't have the 1830 rules in front of me, but at least some other 18xx
> games specifically say this is acceptable -- the president is allowed to
> sell one share, trading with the one who will receive the president's
> certificate in order to put one in the pool.  As far as who gets the
> presidency, all games I know of say the next eligible player among those
> tied clockwise from the current president (or in share-round order if it
> allows variable order).
>

I have a similar problem.  I don't have the rules in front of me, and
haven't read them in quite a while, so I definitely could be wrong
here.

---Brett