Re: [Rails-devel] 1830 Selling a just bought share

[Scott P. <sc...@re...>]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>
> Bug #3100099:
> "Currently a player is allowed by Rails to sell a share to raise capital to
> buy a share ... and subsequently to sell *that* share. Most groups interpret
> the rules to prohibit this behavior.

Although it's just another arbitrary data point, when I have questions
about 1830 that are not covered by the rules, I defer to Steve Thomas'
1830 Rules Clarifications and usually try to follow his lead.
http://www.18xx.net/1830/1830f.htm

"Sell/Buy/Sell

Rule 4.0 states "During his turn of a Stock Round a player may buy ONE
stock certificate and sell ANY NUMBER of certificates. Either or both
of these actions may be performed (and in either order)." This
precludes selling, then buying, then selling again. In practice, the
only time this makes a difference is when the player wants to buy and
sell a single share of stock (in order to depress its price, for
example) and must sell other stock to raise the necessary cash or
create space in the portfolio.

It is believed in some quarters (without any evidence that I've seen)
that the designers' intentions were to allow sell/buy/sell, and many
groups play this way. My group normally forbids sell-buy-sell unless
one of a small number of players is taking part."

So in this case, I think it is worth adding as an option.  If there
are other items from Steve's list for which it is unclear how rails
handles them, I would be willing to construct scenarios and test
them--just let me know.