Re: [Rails-devel] 1835: Later Prussian formation rounds

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

This wasn't so simple as it looked, but I think it now works correctly.

Your saved file had something strange. In previous PR formation rounds, Phil
(correctly) got a turn (to exchange HB) before Chris (to exchange the three
minors). However, in this final case Phil's turn was skipped; it's not clear
to me why. In any case, to make it loadable, I had to truncate the last
action from this saved file. That gave me a nice test case.

To all helpful bug reporters: I'll definitely check out all your reports, as
well as the Sourceforge bugs list, but for various reasons I'm progressing
pretty slowly these days. 

Erik.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Davies [mailto:de...@gm...] 
Sent: Friday 11 June 2010 17:31
To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
Subject: [Rails-devel] 1835: Later Prussian formation rounds

Okay, putting this one down here since I can't explain this behaviour
either with my understanding of the rules or using the FAQ Erik linked
earlier

End of SR7, the Pr has a 3 and a 4

On everyone passing, one player chooses to merge 3 of his minors,
gifting the Pr a 2+2, 3 and another 3

++++++++++++++++++++++++
Starting Pr formation round
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Chris merges minor M5 into Pr, with 180M cash and 1 train(s)
Chris gets a 5% share of Pr from IPO in exchange for M5
Chris merges minor M1 into Pr, with 155M cash and 1 train(s)
Chris gets a 5% share of Pr from IPO in exchange for M1
Pr exchanges the M1 base token on H2/1
Chris merges minor M4 into Pr, with 70M cash and 1 train(s)
Chris gets a 10% share of Pr from IPO in exchange for M4
Pr exchanges the M4 base token on G5/1
---
Pr discards a 3-train to Pool

Leaving the Pr with 2+2, 3, 3, 4

Firstly, does the president of the Pr not get to choose which trains
are discarded? Secondly, at this stage (4+4 not yet bought) is the
train limit not 3?

Saved file attached immediately after this scenario

Phil