Re: [Rails-devel] 1851 - Operating Company can't sell a share twice in one turn

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

Phil Davies wrote:
> I don't believe there is a general consensus among all players but I
> would like to think that the prevailing opinion is that in games where
> selling a 'block' of shares causes a price drop, you cannot sell 1,
> then sell 1, then sell 1 without passing in between and allowing other
> people to react.  If you specifically want to sell to drop the price
> and are happy to take the hit then you have to sell, let the other
> players have a turn each to react, then sell again.

Bruce Shelley's errata for 1830 (published in The General) specifically
allows this "multiple separate sales on same turn" if the player wants to
do it.  About the only reason for doing so is to go deliberately bankrupt.

I would allow it in most 1830-derived games (those with 2-D stock markets).
In particular I would allow it in 18AL and 18GA because their rules were
derived from 1830.

I would not allow it in 1835 (because "drop only once per turn" should take
precedence in that game) or 1870 (because prices in that game never drop
until the president of each company sold decides not to price protect).