Re: [Rails-devel] Unlimited tiles option

[Aliza P. <ali...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:51 AM, Freek Dijkstra <sf_...@ma...> wrote:
> [in 1856, I] am annoyed that
> there are only two yellow #6 tiles (gentle curved railway with city).
> In my experience this tile is often unavailable by OR 4, and when that
> happens it only annoys the players, while -so far- I never seen this
> shortage used strategically, and thus does not add to the game play.

I'm currently in a 5-player PBEM 1856 where we colluded to use up all
four non-straight cities to deny an OR2 tile lay (and an OR2 run by
more than one 2-train) to the Wellend, which started with a sharp
city; it is specifically this possibility that makes many players
consider the Wellend a weak company.

Similarly, there are at least three frequent SR1 (WR, GW, often LPS)
railroads that want to lay a sharp-bend city as their first tile, and
only two such tiles. This is not an annoyance, it is a major point of
contention among the companies.

Running out of brown city tiles (first the 5-way brown L tiles, then
the normal 6-way asterisks/splats) is an important part of late-game
track development.

Your group clearly thinks differently. (How are you not rapidly
cycling through the yellow cities by OR4, and thus not complaining
instead about the shortages of green cities?)

 - Aliza