Re: [Rails-devel] M&H/NYC swap thoughts

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Erik Vos wrote:

> We have so far ignored the latter part of this rule.
> My question is: should we do something about it?
> Is it worth while?
> The only sensible reason I can think of doing this in an OR
> would be that a player would want to hold on the M&H,
> and swap it just before the first 5-train is bought.
> Has anyone ever done that or seen it being done?

If you intend to exchange it rather than buy it in, you are better off 
doing it just before the NYC runs so you get the revenue from the private 
and from the share you excahnge it for.  the only other time I could see 
it mattering would be if the president has to sell shares to finance a 
train (unlikely but possible before a 5 is bought), then stealing the 
company right after he has bought a train for it when you might not have 
favorable priority position.

> To implement it strictly according to the rules would mean,
> that the M&H owner would get a turn at each and every player/company
> turn change, in which the swap must be done or denied.

You are going to find that other games have similar constructs, so it 
might as well get solved now.

> In hotseat and moderator play it would not be a problem:
> it would be just an extra allowed action (signalled
> by highlighting the Special menu). The fact that it would
> be executed by another than the current player is not a problem here.
>
> But in internet play I don't see how we can implement this
> smoothly. Giving one player a turn in between all other turns
> would be pretty annoying, and slow down the game
> for an action that is almost never taken at all.

I think the way the timing is handled in Cosmic Encounter would work here. 
Basically, you let things go on as usual and the player with the option to 
do some action at any point or any set of points may backup one action to 
intervene with their action.  The undo facility makes that easy, and you 
just have to put in a limit of how far back they can go to their action 
point.

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