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

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

> > 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.

Do any examples come to mind?

The only comparable case I could find is the C&A private in 18EC,
(which can be exchanged against a PRR share), but the rules 
do not say anything about *when* that privilege may be executed,
so I would not count this one.

Other player actions may have this in-between-other-player-turns
property, but I can't remember any real examples right 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.

Sounds doable.

Erik.