[Rails-devel] Foreigners Buy Trains

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

Any ideas on how to implement the "foreigners buy a train at the end of the
set of ORs" rules that some Double-O games use (at least 1824/1844)?  I am
doing a workaround for my prototype by putting a well-funded company that
starts in the bottom left space of the stock market.  That way it always
runs last and is in the yellow zone so it doesn't count as a certificate for
the President.  Luckily, it is an infinite bank, so no issue with cash
movements.  It seems to work in the meantime until I finalize the design,
but does anyone have a more elegant way of doing this?  It would be worth
implementing this mechanism at some point.  I will probably work on 1824 as
my next Rails project.

For those that are not familiar, the "foreigners buy" rule is that at the
end of a set of ORs, the top train on the stack is discarded from the game.
This could trigger the start of a new phase.  18FR-RCE does something
similar, but allows the foreigners to discard two trains if they are of
different rank.  Another variant on this is to have the foreigners buy a
train after every OR rather than set--I'm still experimenting with that.