Re: [Rails-devel] Fixes

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

> Erik Vos 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.

brett lentz wrote:
> In this situation, my understanding of the rules is that you can't
> sell the presidency,

It is controversial whether the president can sell one of his two shares
(since it's not a separate certificate), but most people play that he can
(provided that either the bank pool or the new president holds a 10%
certificate that can be given to the seller as "change").

In 1835, this sale would definitely be illegal because 1835's rules
explicitly say that you buy and sell whole certificates, not shares.
I've played in groups that apply the same rule to 1830 and other games.